Monthly Archives: June 2004

I’ve spent most of the day in room 135, the Desktop room.  There’s been a lot of good stuff here, but there aren’t any outlets to make sure my old Dell can stay online.  Actually, there is one outlet, but … Continue reading →

At 7:30, I attended Karsten Lentzsch’s JavaTM Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing) Technology Data-Binding Techniques.  Kartsen knows Swing probably as well as anyone here, and he’s spent a lot of time thinking about Swing in all areas, from how to create cross-platform … Continue reading →

Today I went to High-Performance XML Processing: Techniques & Tips With the JavaTM API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3, Desktop Application Architecture II: Using Threads Correctly and Effectively, JDesktop Network Components (JDNC): Simplifying JavaTM Desktop Client Construction, Deploying Rich Client … Continue reading →

Scott McNealy did a pretty good job this morning.  Strngely, he complained about CEO pay, as though he were making no money compared to those in the conference hall.  Now, I know that developers make a lot of money compared … Continue reading →

Sunday night, I got in around 7 and met up with my co-worker, Scott Delap.  I got signed in, and headed over for a free beer at Moscone.  There we met a couple guys from ExpressScripts in St. Louis, Mike … Continue reading →

At 2:15, I went to Fast Track to the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM) v1.5.  I was really looking forward to the session for tips and tricks in getting my application to work in Tiger/1.5/5.0.  That wasn’t really what … Continue reading →

Jonathan Schwartz’s keynote was a nice pretty presentation, but there wasn’t much new.  Like last year, he talked a lot about the amazing number of Java developers, the amazing number of Java installations, and the amazing number of ringtones.  Studi … Continue reading →