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I was at JavaOne back in May and I stopped to talk to the folks at the Bones in Motion booth. They were showcasing their J2ME based application that lets you record your jogging and up load it to their site. The site provides you with splits, route maps (Google mash-up), elevation changes, calculates calories […]

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I thought I would update the list of best selling books at JavaOne. It was sad to see Ruby for Rails drop off the list. Looks like AJAX was a popular topic, taking […]

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The After Dark party at Java one featured the Mythbusters. I really enjoy the show, so getting to meet them for a brief moment was way cool. They really liked the winning t-shirt […]

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The most popular books from JavaOne day 1, originally uploaded by TomC.

It is funny at JavaOne to see the 8th most popular book. I was in sessions where people were asking what Ruby on […]

Summary (Not in any particular order):

Get rid of AWT (Gosling)
Operator over loading (good (Gosling) and bad (Hamilton))
Simplicity, Yes
Participate in the JCP
Tell your vendors to improve their Java support
Netbeans
class loaders hard
Schedule Builder yeah what ever
US mobile infrastructure sucks
Fewer wireless providers could be good
AJAX use Java Server faces
Uh Time for Beer

My commentary:
Ok, this was the first time […]