Went to the bookstore to pickup new java topics in book form... couldn't really find anything. The hot topics from last year - Java Server Faces, SWT, etc - seemed to have nothing in print.  I ended up settling on a JBoss and a Struts book...  not exactly cutting edge, but at least JBoss gets a lot of press.

I always do my Java binge each year for JavaOne.  I'm a little disappointed this year.  Normally I feel completely deluged with new topics and acronyms to learn, this year I failed to find anything too compelling.

I managed to miss the fireside chat with James, Tim, et al, because of my flight time, but a couple of coworkers happen to catch it.  Their best quote was James saying that C# was "irresponsibly stupid" or something of the sort - this was in context of unsafe support that C# offers... apparently when an audience member (non-MSFT) asked about the comparison between unsafe in C# and Java's JNI there was some hedging going on.

Don't get me wrong - I love Java.  When I first came back to Microsoft I started working on Java projects within the first 6 months.  I loved the language, the runtime, everything - until the politics started.  Unfortunately Sun (a hardware company) decided to try and use Java as a platform and language as their lever to compete with Microsoft (a software company)... oh well, such is life.

I missed registration today also, and I haven't browsed the various sessions& guess I better get cracking!

If anyone else out there is at JavaOne, give me a holler - provided there is wireless internet at the conference I will be online in IM at chris_l_anderson@hotmail.com... feel free to IM me!