Archive for June, 2009

Published by Adam Myatt on 02 Jun 2009

JavaOne 2009 – Day 1 – Sun Announces Partnership with Verizon

During the opening keynote, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz brought onstage Lowell McAdam, the CEO of Verizon Wireless. Together they announced a partnership. Verizon will be making available to developers on July 27th. They will be opening up their network elements, allowing developers to access data like friends presence (online, available, etc.), their location, buddy lists, etc. all through Verizon open APIs.

Developers can find out more at Verizon’s developer web site. Mor einfo TBD.

I’ll be interested to see if there’s any tie-in to development IDEs like NetBeans and if the Verizon APIs will be workable in the Mobility tools in NetBeans.

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Published by Adam Myatt on 01 Jun 2009

Party at CommunityOne

CommunityOne (West) 2009 ended with a bang. The event drew to a close with an evening party that had a bit of a carnival atmosphere. There was tons of free food, beer, and entertainment, that once again proves a statement I made at JavaOne last year… ‘the entertainment gets weirder every year’. This year proved no exception.

Upon entering the venue, I saw carnival booths where guests could try a ring toss or bean bag throw to win prizes.

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There was also the usual Segway riding available… which proved to be quite popular since the line held quite long most of the evening.

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There was also a blow-up ring for dodge ball. The teams faced off to win T-shirts (always a draw).

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Published by Adam Myatt on 01 Jun 2009

Kenai Session at CommunityOne 2009

I’m currently sitting in the Project Kenai session at CommunityOne 2009, titled ‘Your Code, Your Community… Your Cloud, Project Kenai’. Sun employees John Brock and Sharat Chander presented the session.

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John Brock

They covered a nice introduction to Kenai, its community focus, how to sign up for it, and what you can do with it.

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Sharat Chander

Kenai is Sun’s version of SourceForge, though it has some nice benefits. One of the benefits is a tight integration with a development IDE, NetBeans. NetBeans has Kenai-related several features which allow you to interact directly with Kenai, it’s source code repositories, forums, bug trackers, etc. This session was more of an overview, though I’m looking forward to one or two sessions later this week at JavaOne that cover Kenai.

John and Sharat (running ahead of schedule shockingly) then did a Q&A taking questions from the audience. They discussed some of their design decisions creating Kenai, why they chose JRuby as their core implementation language, and their experiences with it.

About half-way through, Sharat hinted at a “big” Kenai-related announcement we’ll hear tomorrow (Tuesday). Assuming it is a feature or interesting tool. I’ll have to follow up and blog about it later. However, during the Q&A there was a “shhhhh” hint about continuous integration support inside Kenai (I’m assuming and hoping for Hudson support).

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Published by Adam Myatt on 01 Jun 2009

Blogging from CommunityOne West 2009

Luckily, I’m attending the CommunityOne West 2009 event (pre-cursor to JavaOne). CommunityOne is a nice free event where developers and users of technologies from all over the “open source” spectrum can come together and dialogue and learn. There are sessions on OpenSolaris, Cloud Computing, Groovy, Glassfish, NetBeans, RIAs, JavaFX, Eclipse, NetBeans, Virtualization, databases, mobile development, and more.

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The morning general session started out with David Douglas, Sun’s VP for Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms giving some welcoming remarks, welcoming some student campus ambassadors,and doing some neat Sun Cloud Demos.

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Sun Campus Ambassadors with David Douglas

Several of the guests and demos performed onstage related to Sun’s Cloud capabilities. The drag and drop demo for deploying a live datacenter was pretty cool, though I’d seen it on YouTube before. Some of the partners discussed using the Cloud for things like backing up your files (disaster recovery) and creating test environments for load testing applications.

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So far CommunityOne has been interesting, but I’ll admit I miss the days when the Monday before JavaOne was mostly reserved for “NetBeans Day”. Ahh, the good old days.

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