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Meet our JavaOne Guest Webloggers
Robert Eckstein has worked with Java since its first release. In a previous life, he has been an editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc. and a programmer for Motorola's cellular technology division. He has written or edited a number of books, including Java Swing, Java Enterprise Best Practices, Using Samba, XML Pocket Reference, and Webmaster in a Nutshell. In his spare time he has been known to tinker with filmmaking and digital photography, as well as collecting vintage video game consoles. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Michelle, his daughter Lauren, and their talking dog Ginger.
In addition to exploring the wonderful world of technology at Tech Days, and getting to interview many Java technology luminaries and unsung heroes on java.sun.com as a staff writer for Sun, Janice J. Heiss is a published writer of fiction and non-fiction and has written and performed for the stage, including stand-up comedy.
She also blogs at: http://blogs.sun.com/janheiss/, http://blogs.sun.com/TechDaysEvents/, and http://blogs.sun.com/javaone2008/.
Patrick Keegan has been writing about NetBeans IDE since just before NetBeans the company was acquired by Sun in 1999. He lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic, where he torments his colleagues with his taste in dated and marginal music.
Steven Meloan is a former software developer. He has covered the Web and the Internet for such publications as Wired magazine, Wired.com, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Los Angeles magazine, and the SF Weekly.
Dana Nourie is a Sun Microsystems staff writer and editorial manager of the Java SE hub, the New to Java Programming Center, Java Technology Fundamentals, and Core Tech Tips. She also gives chats for developers in the Sun Developer Playground in Second Life.
Ed Ort is a writer on the staff of the Sun Developer Network. He writes technical articles that appear on java.sun.com and developers.sun.com. After a long career at IBM, where he focused on relational database technologies and programming languages, Ed came to Sun and turned his attention exclusively to Java technology. Besides writing, Ed also manages the JavaLive chat program, and the newsletters: Core Java Technologies Tech Tips, and Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips. When he's not writing, running chats, or handling newsletters, Ed is usually hiking or jogging in the mountains that surround Las Vegas, Nevada.
Leigh Shevchik is an editorial production manager for the Sun Developer Network. She supports the NetBeans, Sun Java Studio Creator, and Java Studio Enterprise content teams.
Henry Story is currently working on the open source BlogEd blog editor and the Semantic Web. During the dotcom craze he developed, named and supported the AltaVista babelfish machine translation service. Prior to that he studied philosophy in London, where he got to read everything ever published by David Lewis. He can often be found cycling around Europe with a laptop on his back.
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