Live Blogging from JavaOne Conference 6-9 May in San Francisco

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.

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

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.

May 7th, 2008 Sun revealed the following statistics about Java at JavaOne 2008: 1. 90% of Personal Computers on Internet have Java 2.

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.

December 19th, 2005 Meta Blogging is the rage these days. There are literally hundreds of blogs which talks about - blogging.

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.

September 14th, 2006 I am an INTP. And frankly blogging often makes me tired, very tired.

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.

August 18th, 2007 I am now immersing myself in Web 2.0, more so than ever. You will find me reading TechCrunch, and A-list blogs more often and doing all round research on our next product.

May 14th, 2008 In JavaOne 2008 I noticed something I least expected - an abundance of Mac laptops (Macbook, Macbook Pro & Macbook Air) in not just developers hands but also press / analysts and presenters. I didn't conduct a formal survey but anyone there can attest to the fact that around 60-70% of the laptops were Mac with Dell being a distant second.

April 26th, 2009 A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress.

September 20th, 2006 I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves.

July 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?) Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols Multi-blog-multi-author SERP optimized Update: Blogging with: WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).

June 3rd, 2009 In a recent development, Sun Microsystem has joined hands with mobile phone majors Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to make it easier and cheaper for the developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones. On Tuesday, Sun Microsystem released the new open-source testing tools in JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco.