Attending Code Maneuvers 05 Next Week

30 Apr 2005

I think I’ve only been in town for 2 weeks out of the past month. Long story but I’ve been in Washington D.C. and Boston visiting clients and participatin
g in trade shows. Luckily I balanced those trips out with a 2 week trip to the Mayan Riveria.

We have 5 new employees starting next week and have decided a good kick-off event would be to attend Sun’s [Code Maneuvers 05][1] conference in Vancouver.

This full day event highlights state-of-the-art intelligence about Sun’s software technologies, strategies and development methodologies.

I hope that its not too influenced by Sun’s beliefs on technology trends and whats hot vs. whats not. However, I won’t hold my breath.

There are a few interesting topics, in particular persistence and j2ee/j2se performance which I’ll be checking out. The performance session is an actual c
odecamp(??) which means its 1.5hrs long and could be worthwhile. The other sessions will probably end up being quick 45minute overviews unfortuantely.

I’ll report back if the event ends up being any good.

[1]: http://ca.sun.com/en/events/code-maneuv
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