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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

It felt to me like Google IO is picking up steam as the conference for java develolpers

I've always been a java developer, but I haven't consumed too many of Sun's other products. Java one never seemed to interesting to me.

In reading John Gruber talk about the recent Java One:
http://daringfireball.net/2009/06/wwdc09_wrapup

I remember how much I enjoyed Google IO. Mind you they practically bought out the attendees, a free HTC Magic for every developer was awesome, for any students that attended they effectively paid them triple their money back on the cost of admission. Everyone else broke even :)

Still Google Wave was a strong announcement, and would have had plenty of cheers without haven't already been bought out.

Mind you I'm an Android partisan. But I'm seeing the platform do everything is supposed to do. I'd love for it to be faster, but at the same time I'm amazed at how rapidly the platform matured, and continues to evolve.