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TechDays in Chennai

TechDays are just like JavaOne, except instead of taking BART into San Francisco, I flew halfway around the world to get here. There were 3 tracks: roughly JavaME and JavaSE, JavaEE, and Community activities. It was wonderful, for me at least, of having the focus on just developers. It also made the event much more humane than JavaOne; with many fewer people around attendees who wanted to talk one-on-one could find the speakers and corner them for blocks of time. I also got to go to a lot of sessions I usually miss at JavaOne, so that was educational, too.

I got a lot ofinteresting questions, and I hope I encouraged some people to put their ideas up as java.net projects. The most impressive business card I got was from someone at the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, who wants to use real-time Java to control nuclear power plants.

I'm looking forward to Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Delhi. If any of you jdk.Researchers are at the events, please come and introduce yourselves! The point of these trips is to meet with developers and build the java.net community, and face-to-face time is a great way to do that.

Comments

• Peter,

  I attented the SUN Tech days in chennai.
  It was more informative and fun for People passionate on Java.
  As a Developer I got to know many new things in Java Technology.

  I would like to join Projects in java.net community and contribute.

  Hope we have one such again, next year in chennai.

  Posted by: shreeprabu on February 08, 2006 at 10:16 PM

• Peter,
  I Too attented the Sun Tech days in Chennai. It was really a nice time there and I got to know about new innovations in java space. looking forward to attend more sessions like this

  Posted by: javasaju on February 09, 2006 at 01:49 AM

• Hi Peter,
  I attend your session on j2SE realtime : deep drive on 8th Feb. It was somewhat informative. I found that there were lot of information in the ppt ... But time was the factor, so we did not understand more on it. We look for more information interms of sample example in the ppt ,what you publish for us on net. Overall all the session were good but still it could have been better , if you have organized seprate seesion for starters and for the experienced folks .

  ...Prashanth

  Posted by: pr_gowda on February 09, 2006 at 01:51 AM

• hi peter,it attended sun tech days at chennai ...thanks for coming here and teaching us new technology...looking forward for more sessions....Moyeen

  Posted by: procoder04 on February 09, 2006 at 05:18 AM

• Hi peter,
  I''d attended your Real Time Systems a Deep drive in track one on 8th of Feb in Sun Tech Days it's one of the most down to earth explaination of such a critical topic... thanks for a lucid and entertaining session...keep coming

  Posted by: shouvik_d on February 13, 2006 at 02:38 AM

• 
  Had a great time at Tech Days myself

  
  The Java Real-Time session was very informative, but was a touch disappointed in it being available only on sparc.
  Do check out the post on my site http://shvelmur.com/wpress/?p=128.

  
  Wanted to talk in more detail about some Garbage Collection internals and algorithm tweaking with you, but there are just too many guys wanting to take your time ;) mebbe next time
  

  Posted by: shvelmur on February 13, 2006 at 12:30 PM

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