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00:14:50 — oooh newest ALA article, on faux absolute pos is interesting: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxabsolutepositioning
00:28:15 — bed now. Must be awake in five hours :-)
06:48:14 — going to be out of the office the whole day :) dressing up just a tiny bit (blouse, black slacks, borrowed sandals, decent bag)
07:51:10 — got here at 730, looking around. Have not yet seen any familiar faces. Didn't realize there were so many java devs in the philippines
08:11:10 — got introduced to dark mocha frappucino, decaf, the other day. Mine mine mine mine mine
09:00:51 — they are just about to start :3)
09:06:50 — the last time i was in this room was either my prom, a wedding reception, or a debut. Hard to tell with the stage set up this way.
09:17:44 — should have asked for caffeine to offset waking up at 530. Invocation now.
09:25:36 — dance number with painted halfnaked men. Is it normal to start dev conferences with this or is it a uniquely filipino phenomenon?
09:27:14 — don't need that caffeine any more, though!
09:28:19 — mascot doll(?) throwingm shout yes! Want brainhurt ;)
09:43:06 — hm demo shootout: 4minute preparations. Javafx that is how you magnify? Oh :)
09:49:07 — drag and drop javaME application dev in netbeans. Not really my style, though
09:55:25 — jmaki (new to me) ajax framework. Interesting work.
09:59:21 — the drag and drop swing thing is giving me eerie (scary) flashbacks to VB in highschool.
10:01:24 — manila, according to flickr, is a close up of colorful straws.
10:14:22 — twitter, send me text notifs please *poke*
10:17:14 — taking note of virtualbox (want wifi, google, have none of those)
10:30:52 — we have a perverse sense of pride over being able to do so much with so little. Perverse bec some people stubbornly make things harder for t
10:34:40 — philippines is #8 in the world in the adoption of open source, hm? Wonder in what sense?
10:37:15 — er i mean statistics source, and its definition of usage.
11:24:33 — i cannot get 2951 to send me gprs and mms settings for my phone. I can't seem to get the right syntax
12:23:38 — finally managed to set-up gprs :) (text GO to 2951). Must also remember 1111
12:26:24 — at the glassfish talk. I still cannot figure out exactly what glassfish does/is for, and how it interacts with grizzly
13:19:22 — java6 highlights and java7...stuff :) need to find slides on the website later
13:38:13 — oh i like the bundled commandline tools :) (jconsole, jstack, jmap, jhat). Have only used the first.
15:15:06 — groovy and grails (groovy: dynamic language on the jvm), grails (like ror). Nutshell
15:17:48 — jedit?
15:21:39 — awww i am getting excited
15:23:59 — gstring *snicker* (string interpolation)
16:02:40 — i want to do something now (if only i could decide what :))
16:03:56 — groovy is interesting. Lets you concentrate on the functionality, not fret over rhe setting up
16:04:25 — k, now the java persistence api (jpa)
16:08:39 — mmm sang shin is a pretty amazing speaker (jmaki, jpa, from what i attended)
17:38:36 — osgi i hate classpath problems too!)
18:30:27 — could not follow the part about osgi much at all.
18:33:27 — javaee, spring, seam. Looking forward to this because i need to familiarize myself with spring
19:58:49 — first day done. Need to thibk about things.
23:09:19 — these days (like, this past week), I've started becoming too lazy to choose per-friend colors
23:15:13 — *facepalm* Forgot that username blah@gmail sometimes has undesirable results on MLs. Fixing...

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Date: 2008-06-18 04:48 pm (UTC)
pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauamma
Nope - no conference or trade show I attended ever had nekkid men performing. Or nekkid women, for that matter. :-)

Date: 2008-06-18 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] av8rmike.livejournal.com
Painted half-naked men? Are you sure you were at the right conference? ;)

BTW, if you're around later tonight (tomorrow morning), I could use your input on a S2 project.