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NetBeans on the Road

It's been an interesting trip - thus far I'm in Dallas, Texas. I've been to a bunch of Sun field offices, and learned a lot about this company and its customers - working in Prague is a bit like working for a different company, so it's good to learn more about how the mother ship runs.

It also meant getting caught in New York City for the blizzard that hit the midwest and the northeast of the U.S. a few weeks ago. I've never been in New York when it was silent before. So the couple days afterward looked like this:

One thing that's always fun to demo is the Mobility Pack for NetBeans - people are just gaga about it. When I demoed this stuff at Javapolis back in December, I asked a question for the +/-100 people in the audience: "How many of you have ever developed a J2ME app?" Three people raised their hands. "Okay, how many of you would try it if it were really easy?" Everybody raised their hands. And it really does make it easy. So I've got a feeling this is going to take off.

So tomorrow it's more meetings, then a visit to the Telephone Pioneers Museum in Dallas - my grandfather worked all his life for the telephone company, and I have a collection of circa 1918 test equipment in mint condition, which I would donate if I knew it would not be thrown away. After that it's on to Colorado!

Just to show the road isn't all snow:

Comments

• The last picture is simply breathtaking, Tim!! You must be having one helluva good digicam!And yes, the road ahead looks pretty smooth for the NB mobility pack.

  Posted by: bharathch on February 03, 2005 at 10:23 PM

• Tim,

  I imagine your tour includes stops at JUGs. Is San Diego on your list? If not, how can we get you to come visit us?

  Andy

  Posted by: detorres on February 04, 2005 at 09:52 AM

• I'd very much like to do that. I'm not staying on the southern route much longer for this trip - after Colorado, I'm going to have dinner with some folks from the Salt Lake City Java Users Group next Wednesday, and from there back to the bay area (I'm theoretically living there, but have hardly been anywhere long enough to feel like I live there in a couple months).

  The rest of February is pretty crazy; in March, I'm going to go back to Salt Lake City (by plane this time), and give a talk for the full users group there, and do the same thing in New York City. There's one person inside Sun whose already been trying to get me down to San Diego, so I think it would be no problem to arrange something in March or April. Get in touch with me by email (tim dot boudreau at sun dot com) and we'll work it out.

  Posted by: timboudreau on February 04, 2005 at 10:30 AM

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