Sun Tech Days 2007 – Concluding Part

I have reached my home in Bangalore. Before I brief you on all that happened on the last day of the Sun Tech Days 2007, let me wish Sun Microsystems a Happy Twenty Fifth Birth Anniversary. I was told that Sun was officially born on February 24, 1982. In this context, I invite you all to read through this brief history of Sun Microsystems as time permits.

I reached the Sun Tech Days venue at around 7:30 A.M. Had to do some fixes on several machines to be used for Stacy’s Ajax Session. Things went on smoother than I expected and the machines with Solaris 10 Developer Edition were up and running just in time for Stacy to introduce his participants to the whole new and exciting world of Solaris OE and then on this actual curriculum. The number of participants who came for the hands on session on Ajax was close to hundred and each one of them got accustomed to the Solaris OE in no time. Published below is a photograph that was taken a few minutes before Stacy Thurston took the platform to talk about Ajax.

Most of the tasks in his session were conducted using the Netbeans and Sun Java System Application Server 9.0. Some of them attending this program were familiar with Netbeans, but not all of them, which of course was a little bit surprising. But otherwise none of them had any problem using the ‘unfamiliar’ Solaris 10 Operating Environment. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them go back and try to install Solaris OS and use it as their development platform. Well, I would strongly say it is worth trying it.

Towards the end of the day, I felt very tired and was feeling so sleepy. It was really really tough to keep my eyes open. But somehow I managed to hang around till Stacy concluded his training. The labs for this course was done very religiously by most of the people, but if you are one among those who could not pay complete attention to the labs on Ajax or who could not make it to the venue for some reason or the other, Stacy has plans to publish his course slides and the lab files on his blogs. Please stay tuned.

By evening, most of the attendees had left the venue and the venue looked very empty. I don’t know whether I would meet Stacy again in the immediate future. I can only say that I enjoyed the moments that I spent with him. Thanks Stacy and have a pleasant stay in Singapore.

Stacy,myself and the whole of SLS, Bangalore are thankful to the gang below who played a crucial role in bringing up the labs just in time.Thank you folks and wish you all a bright future.

Sun Tech Days 2007 is considered to be the largest Developer Conference that happened in India. India’s leading Newspaper The Hindu has a report on this. It was well and truly a wonderful experience for me.