Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

So, JavaOne 2006 officially kicked off today.
I attended the following first day sessions:
Desktop Java™ Technology Today: Deep Dive
Essential Lessons of Distributed Caching
What Is Happening With SOA in Open Source?
Service Component Architecture: Approach to Security, Transactions, and Policy
Java™ EE 5 Platform: Even Easier With Tools
The first two sessions were quite good, the last couple were not [...]

Just got out of the keynote session….
All in all, not too impressed. It basically consisted of a number of sun dignataries introducing their corporate friends and newfound Netbeans adopters.
Very little talk on the whole open sourcing of Java issue, with a luke-warm committal to figure out the ‘how’ in open sourcing the platform.
Mark Shuttleworth [...]

Next weekend I’ll be in sunny San Francisco getting ready to take in my first JavaOne. We’re staying in the Sir Francis Drake, which was recommended by one of the guys travelling with us.
There’s no way I’m actually going to be able to sit in sessions from 8:30 -> 11:30 (counting the BoF’s) but [...]

A year or so back I experimented with TiddlyWiki but didn’t really get beyond that.
I’ve since taken it up again as an attempt to become better organized. We use Confluence at work and I’ve experiemented with having a personal space where I can record my ToDo’s and other misc. pieces of information. It’s [...]