AJUG, JavaBlogs and cell phone porn
What the? 
The presentation at AJUG last night seemed to go quite well. I gave the same presentation on the technologies behind “JavaBlogs”:http://www.javablogs.com that I gave at The Server Side Symposium in Boston. For those who want to download the presentations, see “this blog post”:http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000200.html.
AJUG seemed to be picking up since the last time I attended. There were only 15-20 people there, but there were some genuinely smart questions and the discussions were interesting. Hopefully this is a good sign for the future of what could be a very valuable tool for Australian Java developers.
There’s a lot of “valuable”:http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/archives/001423.html “discussion”:http://weblog.gerhardfroehlich.net/archives/000020.html about JavaBlogs going on at the moment – it’s fantastic. I must admit that I had read Clay’s interesting article on “group dynamics”:http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html but I didn’t immediately think of JavaBlogs! We’ll see what we can do to improve things, and perhaps put some better algorithmic sorting of best posts behind the whole thing. Charles – why not drop around to the office for a beer one night next week and we can chat about it?
As another point of interest, I got a new “Sony-Ericsson T610″:http://www.sonyericsson.com/t610/ phone yesterday – very sexy. It has built in Bluetooth so of course I immediately went and downloaded the “Salling Clicker”:http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/&e=6251 and started controlling iTunes with it. My entire PowerPoint presentation last night was controlled via Bluetooth from my mobile phone, which meant I didn’t have to huddle over the laptop the entire time – nifty!
The other cool feature of the T610 is that it has a camera. Now I’m not the sort of person to send out PXT (picture) messages @ $0.70 a pop. I can’t really imagine anyone using this frequently at that price point – with the exception of drunk people in bars, and it would seem people engaging in “new amorous activities”:http://www.nerve.com/opinions/morford/voyeur/ that these sort of phones make available. Sadly as a single man, this second use is not so useful to me at the moment. Still, as a geek, the Bluetooth is bloody cool.
