Sun Tech Days 2007: Day #1

Day #1 was long! 4 cups of Java, and several sessions of the "real Java" across 3 tracks. Overall, a bunch of good sessions, excellent food and cool freebies. According to Sun's Country Manager (Gan Boon San), this year's conference was attended by about 1,500 delegates (Malaysia Boleh!)

The Technical Demo was well orchestrated. 6 evangelists on stage, each giving a 5-minute demo of something cool. Chuk made sure everyone was timed, and Angela Caicedo rocked the day with her knowledge of robotics and some GUI tech right out of the Minority Report (bravo!)

Quick note: The NetBeans Extreme session (TD6001) was too long (read: Extreme) at 2 hours, most of which was a repeat of the stuff covered the day before. However, it did reinforce how the NetBeans Mobility Pack makes development for mobile devices a rapid process -- awesome!

Here are some photos from Day #1, held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).

A much bigger name tag:


James Gosling giving his keynote:


Mr. Gosling was emphasising the point that Java is free from virus attacks:


Toilet break. Wait a minute -- do you "wash" or "flush"?


VMware (yawn!):


Coffee break:


The weather outside was lovely:


And then, we have the Twin Towers (shot of the day?):


Lots of Dukes in sight:


Oracle's "Spin & Win" was a big hit among the freeloaders:


The event organiser did a great job with the registration process -- queues were cut down with the smart segmentation of registration lines based on the delegates company name:


Some leftovers from tea (great food served all throughout):


Related links:

• Praveen Rajan: What a NetBeans Day!