Spent the day at my first-ever Java One: herewith stories and pix, including a notable blogging first.
It’s big. I have a new respect for this whole Java-ecosystem thang. Here’s a picture from one of several concurrent sessions on Java performance.
Big is nice, but the people are what matter. Here’s one of my favorite people, Jon Bosak:
I went to an interesting IDE Shootout (Eclipse, Emacs, IntelliJ, JDeveloper, and NetBeans); nobody won and only JDeveloper was notably injured.
In the evening, we had a Java Bloggers’ Beerfest, which was great fun. Our newest blogger, some guy named Schwartz, drew quite a crowd:
Jonathan was the newest blog-celeb, but some other faces got put to names; here are MaryMary and Simon Phipps; Mary is just like her online persona.
Finally, here are Russell Beattie and Will Snow.
Good fun; I’m glad I came.
