Kevin P. Taylor

EclipseWorld Expert Panel

 

The opening night of the conference saw an expert panel assembled with Michael Milinkovich, Bob Martin, and David Intersimone. These three guys seem to have such different technology backgrounds and current pursuits that the resulting discussion turned out to be quite dynamic. Here is a sampling of comments from each. (Any mistakes are my own.)

Bob: Those doing Java now will be doing Ruby in 5 years. Mark my words, this train has left the station.
David: Eclipse is an enabler. Eclipse is primarily by vendors for vendors.
Mike: Over time there will be a convergence between Web applications and desktop applications.
Bob: JavaScript is an interesting language based on Scheme. It will have a bigger role to play than just as a silly Web 2.0 scripting language.
Bob: Visual Studio has done a tremendous job of ignoring what developers really need.
Mike: Visual Studio does a good job of pursuing a singularity of vision. But they are sitting on a 10 year code base that is past the "best before" date.

Blogging From TypePad Mobile

If you are a TypePad user, I recommend downloading their mobile client. I am using it on my Treo 700p, to a limited extent.

The mobile blogging client allows you to create new posts, edit existing draft posts, and upload and attach images from your Treo's camera. This last feature is particularly nice with the Treo 700p's built in 1 mega-pixel camera.

So far my only frustration is the seeming lack of support for markup in blog text. For instance, the link to TypePad above was inserted by editing this post via TypePad's Web interface after I first created and published the post directly from the mobile client.

Destination: EclipseWorld 2007

Andy Maleh and I are on our way to present at EclipseWorld 2007 in Reston, VA. We arrived at Midway Airport in record time so we had about 1 1/2 hours to hang out at the food court. Andy had Chinese from King Wah and  I, unfortuately, had a Gyros sandwich.