To new beginnings!

This is my 1,099th blog entry.

It’s also my last one as a Sun employee.

It has been a great privilege to work for Sun for nearly 13 years.

It has been an enormous pleasure to share the last five of them with you in this blog.

Thanks for coming along for the ride, dear reader.

Now, I’m off to my next adventure.

I’m joining Yahoo!

And of course, I won’t mind one bit if you want to come along for the ride…

:-)

Mary

p.s. Thank you.

I am a rock star. I’ve got my rock moves.

(well, not personally but…..)

The JavaOne Rock Stars have been announced!

JavaOne Rock Stars are the top speakers from JavaOne as voted by attendees.

The 2009 class of JavaOne Rock Stars joins a very elite group in the JavaOne Rock Star Hall of Fame.

I know you’ll see some familiar names in the list… there also got some rookies!

Congrats to the newly inducted!

Session ID Session Title Honored Speakers Topic
TS-3890 Energy, CO2 Savings with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition and More: Project GreenFire Adam Bien
adam-bien.com
Core Technology: Embedded / Real-Time / Java Card
TS-5427 Inside Out: A Modern Virtual Machine Revealed Antonios Printezis
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Brian Goetz
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
John Coomes
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5588 Creating Compelling User Experiences Ben Galbraith
Mozilla
Dion Almaer
Ajaxian, Inc.
Services: Web 2.0, Next Generation Web, and Cloud Services Platform
TS-5587 Ajax Versus JavaFX Technology Ben Galbraith
Mozilla
Dion Almaer
Ajaxian, Inc.
Services: Web 2.0, Next Generation Web, and Cloud Services Platform
TS-4945 FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology): FRC-FIRST Robotic Competition Brad Miller
WPI
Eric Arseneau
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Core Technology: Embedded / Real-Time / Java Card
TS-5496 This Is Not Your Father’s Von Neumann Machine; How Modern Architecture Impacts Your Java Apps Brian Goetz
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Cliff Click
Azul Systems
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5427 Inside Out: A Modern Virtual Machine Revealed Brian Goetz
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4333 Programming Music for Fun and Productivity: JFugue and Log4JFugue Brian Tarbox
Wabi Sabi Software
David Koelle
Charles River Analytics Inc
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4466 Move Your Users: Animation Principles for Great User Experiences Chet Haase
Adobe
Romain Guy
Google
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5045 Conversations and Page Flows on the JavaServer Faces Platform Dan Allen
Red Hat, Inc.
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-5333 JavaServer Faces 2.0 Technology: Implementing AJAX-Infused Web Applications David Geary
Clarity Training, Inc.
Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content
TS-4696 JDBC? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ JDBC: How LinkedIn Scaled with memcached, SOA, and a Bit of SQL David Raccah
LinkedIn Corporation
Dhananjay Ragade
LinkedIn Corporation
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-5098 RIA Teacher Gradebook Managing Millions of Students with Swing and Web Services: How It Was Done Deane Richan
Pearson
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4403 Creating Games with the Open-Source Multithreaded Game Engine (MTGame) Deron Johnson
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Doug Twilleager
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content
TS-4062 Building Enterprise Java Technology-Based Web Apps with Google Open-Source Technology Dhanji Prasanna
Google
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-5036 Using REST and WS-* in the Cloud Doug Tidwell
IBM
Services: SOA Platform and Middleware Services
TS-4701 Web 2.0 Phone Home: Rapid Development of Telecom-Enabled Web Applications Gregory Bond
AT&T Labs Research
Thomas Smith
AT&T Labs Research
Services: Web 2.0, Next Generation Web, and Cloud Services Platform
TS-4506 Migrating Your Java™ Platform, Micro Edition Midlets to JavaFX™ Mobile Technology Hinkmond Wong
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mobility
TS-5136 Nereus-V: Massively Parallel Computing of, by, and for the Community Ian Preston
Oxford University
Rhys Newman
Oxford University
Services: Web 2.0, Next Generation Web, and Cloud Services Platform
TS-5577 Introduction to the JavaFX Technology-Based API (Graphics and Animation) Jasper Potts
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Rich Bair
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content
TS-4374 XSS-Proofing Your Java EE, JavaServer Pages, and JavaServer Faces Applications Jeff Williams
Aspect Security
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-5186 Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe Joshua Bloch
Google, Inc.
Neal Gafter
Microsoft
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5217 Effective Java: Still Effective After All These Years Joshua Bloch
Google, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-3789 Getting Started with WidgetFX: Open-Source Widget Desktop Platform with JavaFX Technology Joshua Marinacci
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stephen Chin
Inovis
Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content
TS-4694 Debugging Your Production JVM Machine Ken Sipe
Perficient
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4143 Flamingo: Bringing the Ribbon Component to Swing Kirill Grouchnikov
Amdocs
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4875 Developing RESTful Web Services with the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) Marc Hadley
Sun Microsytems, Inc.
Paul Sandoz
Sun Microsytems, Inc.
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-3798 Preventing Bugs with Pluggable Type Checking Michael Ernst
U. of Washington
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5389 Mylyn: Redefining the “I” of the IDE Mik Kersten
Tasktop Technologies
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4955 Comparing Groovy and JRuby Neal Ford
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4961 “Design Patterns” for Dynamic Languages on the JVM Machine Neal Ford
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4964 Unit Testing That Sucks Less: Small Things Make a Big Difference Neal Ford
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-4407 Best Practices for Large-Scale Web Sites: Lessons from eBay Randy Shoup
eBay
Core Technology: Java EE
TS-4164 Clojure: Dynamic Functional Programming for the JVM Machine Rich Hickey
Clojure
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop
TS-5173 Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) and REST Scott Davis
Davisworld Consulting, Inc.
Services: SOA Platform and Middleware Services
TS-5335 Defective Java Code: Mistakes that Matter William Pugh
Univ. of Maryland
Core Technology: Java SE and Desktop

In addition to being hot shot techno celebs, you’re now OFFICIALLY Rock Stars. :-)

CONGRATS!!

Mary

p.s. check out the sister blog. we’re doing a bit of cross-pollinating now adays… :-)