Thanks to kottke.org, I found a very engaging game, to keep my busy during the long hours of installing applications at work!
Check out Fastr. Oh Yeah, btw, it uses AJAX to update the scores. Welcome to Web 2.0

Nice sunny day, and a huge auditorium filled with half of Chennai’s Java crowd… well mebbe not exactly have, but close 2500 java programmers attended this year’s Sun Tech Days held at Chennai,India. This is my first time at a Sun conference.Well, it is not a JavaOne kinda event, where it is all techie, but atleast you do get to meet a few like minded, hard-core, think-OOAD-in-the-shower guys. There were some very kewl speakers. I especially enjoyed

- “Real-Time Java” by Peter Kessler
- “Performance Tuning of Javaâ„¢ SE Applications” by Chuk-Munn Lee

I loved every session by those guys, and was really impressed by the breadth and depth of their knowledge (kudos to you guys)

The free Solaris day was as interesting as the rest of the days. There was a lot of marketing talk, but that’s what the coffee machine’s always on for!

Anyway, learnt a bit, interacted with a lot of Java developers and oh yeah!! I won the Java Jacket!! (One size small, but hey, it is kewl!!)

Will post a picture of it soon

I have been away far too long this time around. But, I finally find some time to do my bloggy thingy!

I managed to finally migrate to Wordpress 2.0 with the latest K2 theme. (btw great work with the theme guys)

It has been a very hectic month, and very busy and interesting start to the year! Some of the stuff I have been dabbling in since the begining of this year

- a framework for implementing a control plane in a java application (see JCtrlPlane)
- attended the Sun Tech Days conference at Chennai on 7th, 8th and 9th of February (more on that below)
- a kewl Java Jacket
- lots of architectural work, at work
- thinking about where my life is going
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Catching up on old friends
- Finally… started working out (my abs that is )