Appologies it looks like I will be a couple of days behind with writing these things up

managed another 4 sessions some real intresting things going on in the SOA word 3D world and everyone is trying to turn their apps to mobile apps.

As with Swag.

I got 2 free meals

and 1 yoyo

Their was a queue it was very long many people jumped, got a close seat only to be bedazzled by the very odd Java interpretive dance troup.

Their was a lot of Java Blah Blah and will spare you it.

I am a bit unsure as whether to just drop in my sketchy notes or just clue you up on some of the best bits.

I was a bit suprised at the violence that errupted from the Java Geeks when free tshirts were litteraly sling shot across the room. Some of the people in front ended up on the floor. One Japanese girl went and stood in front of the slingers dodging back and forth in front of him till he passed her a tshirt.

Next we had a group of VP’s tell us how they had attached RFID chips to us and had sensors sensing power usage co2 emissions and a host of other fairly privacy encroaching technologies, so they could create a pretty graph in javafx. Which by the way looks promising as a technology.

Next they tried to sell that anyone not using a service architecture would end up going bust. he VP of software came up with a lovely quote. “A competitive enviroment for your eyeballs”

Amazon showed off kindle not impressed, felt like a step backward esspecialy with a keypad that came straight out of the 90’s

Sony Ericson claimed Java was at the core of its strategy.

Then I saw the javafx demo, and watched as a lady dragged a facebook widget onto her desktop as though it was a window to an aplication, she then closed the browser and the damn thing kept running. It should apparently run on everything from computers to tvs to mobile (incl android) to blueray. It comes in built with video playback and 3d stuff. It felt very much like apples efforts with its “core” products.

Next was photo flockr, If I didn’t know any better I would say they ripped off mine and ribots idea that we pitched to the bbc about a year ago. Even the name was the same sans photo.

Sun has 4 fundimental activities.

1. reach more devices linux/windows mac embedded sonsumer sensors, appliances.
2. Ubiquitous not good enough, they want speed performance. EMotive design.
3. Give developers tools to measure use of their applications.
4. All for free. (its all about the licensees mwahahahaha)

Then Neil Young stood up and went on about blueray and his albums.

Today was the first day at Java One and it was good.

So far I have received:

• 2 meals
• 1 keyring
• 1 usb stick with motodev on it.
• 1 pen
• 1 notepad
• 1 linen bag
• 1 rucksack
• 2 flasks
• 4 t-shirts

I planned 6 sessions today and managed 4, I realised I had not given myself time to eat, or allow any of the data to sink in.

I will endevour to write each session up on this blog, at the end of the day.

I have this blog see, well obviously you do otherwise you would either be insane or… well brain dead. I never consider myself verbose in fact quite the contrary so I struggle to find something interesting I want to say that hasn’t been said by someone else and that I truly believe. So instead I will try and write about things a little more mundane but closer to my heart, today you will see 2 such articles, this one pretending to be from last week, in the vein hope you don’t notice. I would say damn but that would just be way too obvious. 

 How to make a good cup of coffee… and then some. 

 Over the years I have been given hellish cups of java, either to weak or so strong the spoon floats ( I am not joking my other half loves to use half and half when it comes to killing me making me a cuppa)In order to reduce the amount of deaths from caffeine overdose ( I reckon i’ve been close a few times, caffeine addiction is no laughing matter)  

 I will provide a simple set of rules on making this drink. 

1.  Don’t use instant. (not unless you like the taste of gravel and tar)
2. When filling your cafétier fill using the bottom by a bout 1 cm or just under half an inch, for you god fearing monarchists.
3. Boil the kettle allow the water to stop bubbling then poor immediatly
4. Make sure the ground beans are mixed well in the water.
5. Leave for at least 5 minutes, I prefer 10/15
6. Push the cafétier plunger down at the rate of 1cm every 2 seconds.
7. Drink.
8. Put the coffee back in the fridge (sealed) otherwise the cupboard goblins will smell it and then piss in it.

I am a big fan of DIY whether it comes to software or buildings. The ability to learn by doing rather than the tedious environment of a lecture theater, or the dry text of a technical book; is something I deeply appreciate.

I have spent the past 15 months redecorating the flat, in the manner only I seem to manage which is somewhat overboard with big plans and big ideas and little appreciation for the time it takes. A trait I have spent several years reigning in.

Why try and muffle this part of me? It is certainly not by choice alone. Dreamers that do are what makes the world great, the people behind every invention, the activists, the progressive liberalists, the spread of atheism. People that will not and can not stay down, refusing to bow heads to religious dogma or bureaucratic unimaginative morons who run our daily lives.

However big ideas are time consuming, they by definition alone are poorly planned and difficult to implement. Agile had a solution, split down this big idea into smaller more manageable ones. The problem is the big idea gets lost in all the detail, the vision goes out the window and the idea is no longer fun for the idealist but fun for the bureaucratic.

Is there a real happy medium? probably not, the 2 sides of humanity will constantly pull and push at each other, even within ourselves, repressing and ridiculing every idea, yawning and rebelling against every decision.

The only antidote is confidence, however that comes with its own problems, bad decisions can lead to the implementation of bad ideas, and bad ideas are brought forward by bad decisions. This is the supposed reason for elections and not referendum, but that stems from the bad idea that people generally make bad decisions.

I have no solution just a dilemma put to the world.

I watched the Politics Show, through TV on demand. If your not familiar with the format the Politics Show consists of a national and a local section, since presumably London is deemed more important, when watching it through TV on demand London suddenly becomes my locality, rather than the south coast.

The subject was about Lee Jasper and allegations of corruption by him and racism from the Evening Standard (hardly a left wing paper at the best of times). I was expecting a balanced debate a usual happening by the excellent Peter Henley but the journalist in charge of the interview didn’t even let this politician speak and instead produced a list of leading questions without allowing fair discourse. Now I’m no Labour supporter but I was disgusted that I wasn’t allowed to form my own opinion because of the interviewers unjust tactics. A point was made by the politician that other stories about Boris Johnson were essentially being covered up, normally Id dismiss this as the usual blame shifting but in this circumstance, I am somewhat swayed by the argument.