On the third day of JavaOne, I had the opportunitiy to get my picture taken with James Gosling (you know him). Even better, He autographed the special-duke-shirt, which was hurled into the public during one of the keynote sessions. James also got one of the famous NL-JUG pins, which he put on directly (small dot [...]

Sun Microsystems is working on a Top 50 list of JUGs worldwide. The NL-JUG has been included as well. Today I received a mail from the Technology Outreach Group that a Fedex shipment with goodies is on its way… Maybe we’ll have another JavaOne T-shirt Toss (or with Gero and Wilfred)at the J-Fall on October [...]

I am invited to join the “Java Champion” program

As you probably know, the JavaOne conference is only 2 weeks away. Currently I am working on putting together a small leisure program for the NL-JUG visitors to this conference. Last night, I made a call to Josh, the skipper of the “Ruby” in San Francisco. We did a sailingtour last year on the same [...]

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