Anyway. There wasn’t really anything interesting from a usability or web standards point of view (this was in fact a Java conference believe it or not).

I did however mange to upload a bunch of photos to Flickr :)
Browse my JavaOne 2006 set here »

I could of cause write some stuff about the more interesting sessions, but it’s late now and I need to go to bed. Besides, I should have done so when they where fresh in my mind.

The only thing that I can say is: Some interesting stuff is in the pipeline here at justaddwater.dk and both Jesper and I are looking forward to share it with you :)

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“It isn’t a question of whether, but a question of how”

See webcast, segment two, 22:10

The rest of the session was full of news of different Java frameworks, tools, etc. that was going to be open sourced – It is truly a good day for the Open Source community :)

I recommend you, if you haven’t seen it already to go to the JavaOne website and watch the whole session as a webcast (you need to have RealPlayer installed – weird when you think about that this is a Java convention… Isn’t Java supposed to be open?)

Blogger Meetup

I unfortunately had to skip the “Beyond AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML Native Processing” session. It was at the same time as the JavaOne Blogger Meetup. About a 100 people had signed up for the blogger meetup at the Thirsty Bear – The favored pub for JavaOne attendees.

I met a lot of interesting bloggers. For instance I got a chance to talk to Joe Walker, the author of DWR – an AJAX framework for Java – and Dave Johnson, the author of Roller – the blogging software that for instance runs most of the blogs at Sun and IBM (written in Java of cause).

I can just say that it was really nice to meet everybody and I really hope to get a chance to attend another meetup sometime in the future :)

See the rest of our JavaOne posts here…

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• Beyond AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript ™ Technology and XML Native Processing
• Corporate Cola: Visualizing Your Email
• Stronger Than AJAX: Swing in a Server-Side Web Architecture
• Extreme Web Caching
• Java™ Technology, AJAX, Web 2.0 and SOA
• Evolving JavaServer™ Faces Technology: AJAX Done Right

I’ve put my whole session schedule online, but keep in mind that this is just resevations I made from home, so I might skip some of them or join other sessions.

Traveling experiences

Delta must truly be an air line company of the world. A flight attendance actually gave me visa and immigration forms written in Dutch! I thought I spoke Danish. A couple of my colleagues also got Dutch forms – the rest got them in French?! I managed to fill them out without understanding the questions. I’m writing this on the plane, so I don’t know yet if I’m gonna be allowed inside the States… “Bent U ooit betrokken geweest bij spionage of sabotage?” – I answered “yes” – I hope that was correct. The info screen displaying outside temperature and altitude was in some weird language that I don’t even know of. Oh yes… they where showing two in-flight movies. But the whole row of seats where I was sitting had a malfunction so the earphone plugs didn’t work ;)

This is how you look if you try hard to keep a straight face, arriving at a hotel after traveling for 19 long hours, being awake 24 hours straight with only 4 hours of sleep before that:

Good night :)

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- See you at JavaOne :)

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