Java Popularity Statistics (from JavaOne 2008)

April 29th, 2008 I am preparing for attending JavaOne. I will cover JavaOne 2008 live on this blog and on twitter.

May 6th, 2008 JavaOne 2008 is starting in couple of hours. I will be there all four days soaking in all the knowledge, fun and sharing about it in this blog.

March 21st, 2008 I got an invitation for covering JavaOne and received a Press pass for the conference. I am planning to attend the conference from 6-9 May in San Francisco and live blog about the event.

May 7th, 2008 The burning question at JavaOne 2008 on lots of developers and businesses mind was how Sun was ever going to monetize all the cool technologies at JavaOne? If Sun goes down, so does the technologies it championed. I got the opportunity to ask the questions on the Java panel for media, to JavaFX lead and others.

May 6th, 2008 All throughout the JavaOne 2008 keynote presentation, I had the same nagging question, how is Sun going to profit from all these diverse technologies? In the end I don't have an answer. Purely from business standpoint it doesn't make sense.

June 1st, 2006 This is the list of top 10 best things about Scott not being the CEO of Sun Microsystems (as said by Scott himself at JavaOne) : 10. He doesn't have to apologize for "stuff I say to Wall Street." 9.

March 10th, 2008 It was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

March 8th, 2005 I am tired of seeing people whine about their JavaOne proposals being rejected including Mary (from Sun) and others. Please spare us details of your rejected proposals.

July 19th, 2006 Java increased its lead as the leading programming language according to TIOBE's index. PHP maintained its 4th position while Ruby moved up 13 positions to 17th.

March 22nd, 2009 As many of you know, I was invited to JavaOne 2008 as Press Analyst by Sun Microsystems. I went all the way from India to attend the event.

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.

May 6th, 2008 JavaFX The keynote was centered around JavaFX, Sun's solution for creating rich interactive internet applications with immersive user interface. Sun's value proposition is ubiquitousness of JavaFX on mobile platform and internet enabled devices.

April 20th, 2006 Karrier Communications today announced the shipment of its first Java based version of the IntelliGolf® golf scoring software. IntelliGolf has been completely rewritten in Java (MIDP 2.0) offering several new features, removed dependency on third party software and reduced memory consumption.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.