Java Technology Day
On a lazy tuesday afternoon, Ginanjar called me and told me about an event sponsored by Sun Microsystems Indonesia on September 30th . With a permission from my office, I called the committee and confirmed my attendance.
I've the slightest idea about where the venue, Shangri-La hotel was. Even when I called Ginanjar in the morning asking about where it was, it dawned on him that the blue-roofed hotel next to Bendungan Hilir flyover is not Shangri-La, it was Le Meridien. Finally, my dad gave me a little clue (with crossed fingers) about where Shangri-La might be located.
Truly, it was only a very good luck that I could find this spot just in time before the seminar started.
Six speakers were scheduled to give their presentations. Among all, I found the second presentation the best. A manager from Sun Microsystems Singapore exposed some new features in the newly-arrived J2SDK 1.5, JVM manager, and microsoft-like development environment which enables programmers to perform drag-and-drop actions to build a complex webapplication in an instance.
The third presentation was about the huge possibility to grab a portion in the presently-growing mobile application market. I've heard much of this one before in Nokia Seminar. But it seems that the speaker had known exactly what would take alot of attention from his audience: busty ladies. He did put some pictures of barely-clad women in tempting positions as visual clues. I was right there, right the very spot of a ballroom full of geeky programmers "oooh"-ing and "aaaah-ing" everytime a new slide turned up.
The last three presentations mostly talked about the same thing: how a piece of paper would save a programmer's ass. They all said "take this certification and grab the future full of hope, including the possibility to get as much as $80000 per year. Yeah sure. Perhaps if I take that certificate and an apply for Java company abroad.
However dull the last three presentations were, I was glad the speakers were all aware about that, and made their speech as short as possible, giving way for the most interesting schedule of all: lunch. Free lunch? Of course not. We traded it with our valuable time to attend the launch of Sun Indonesia's training and certification program in this event.
Later that afternoon, they had a competition called Java Olympiads. As I registered myself only for the seminar and not for the competition, I waited on a cozy sofa in front of the venue while reading a book. I turned down the chance because somehow I figured out that there would be no IDE to work the quizzes out. To work without any, especially nowadays, would be madness. I know, probably it's because of my dependency on IDE that reduces my capability of mentally compile the codes. But working with an IDE gives us programmers more time to analyse and design the system on-the-fly, cutting a lot of analysis and design cycle in a traditional software engineering approach.
Hail to Java (or any) programmers who still hold firm their belief that a text-editor and a simple compiler are sufficient.
Ginanjar emerged from the room. "I got 50," he said, "... the questions were all tricky, much like UMPTN." Just like me, my buddy's getting used to working with IDE and has been slowly losing the mental code compiling capability. There's no regret actually because at the same time we're gaining new ones.
It was only a very good luck that I could find this spot just in time.
I've the slightest idea about where the venue, Shangri-La hotel was. Even when I called Ginanjar in the morning asking about where it was, it dawned on him that the blue-roofed hotel next to Bendungan Hilir flyover is not Shangri-La, it was Le Meridien. Finally, my dad gave me a little clue (with crossed fingers) about where Shangri-La might be located.
Truly, it was only a very good luck that I could find this spot just in time before the seminar started.
Six speakers were scheduled to give their presentations. Among all, I found the second presentation the best. A manager from Sun Microsystems Singapore exposed some new features in the newly-arrived J2SDK 1.5, JVM manager, and microsoft-like development environment which enables programmers to perform drag-and-drop actions to build a complex webapplication in an instance.
I was right there, right the very spot of a ballroom full of geeky programmers "oooh"-ing and "aaaah-ing" everytime a new slide turned up.
The third presentation was about the huge possibility to grab a portion in the presently-growing mobile application market. I've heard much of this one before in Nokia Seminar. But it seems that the speaker had known exactly what would take alot of attention from his audience: busty ladies. He did put some pictures of barely-clad women in tempting positions as visual clues. I was right there, right the very spot of a ballroom full of geeky programmers "oooh"-ing and "aaaah-ing" everytime a new slide turned up.
The last three presentations mostly talked about the same thing: how a piece of paper would save a programmer's ass. They all said "take this certification and grab the future full of hope, including the possibility to get as much as $80000 per year. Yeah sure. Perhaps if I take that certificate and an apply for Java company abroad.
However dull the last three presentations were, I was glad the speakers were all aware about that, and made their speech as short as possible, giving way for the most interesting schedule of all: lunch. Free lunch? Of course not. We traded it with our valuable time to attend the launch of Sun Indonesia's training and certification program in this event.
Later that afternoon, they had a competition called Java Olympiads. As I registered myself only for the seminar and not for the competition, I waited on a cozy sofa in front of the venue while reading a book. I turned down the chance because somehow I figured out that there would be no IDE to work the quizzes out. To work without any, especially nowadays, would be madness. I know, probably it's because of my dependency on IDE that reduces my capability of mentally compile the codes. But working with an IDE gives us programmers more time to analyse and design the system on-the-fly, cutting a lot of analysis and design cycle in a traditional software engineering approach.
Hail to Java (or any) programmers who still hold firm their belief that a text-editor and a simple compiler are sufficient.
No idea about what's all that about? To put it in a nonprogramming term, developing software without a robust IDE is just as complicated as writing an article with typewriter instead of a word processor, or building a skyscraper without concrete-mixers, or taking toddlers for a day out without diapers.
Ginanjar emerged from the room. "I got 50," he said, "... the questions were all tricky, much like UMPTN." Just like me, my buddy's getting used to working with IDE and has been slowly losing the mental code compiling capability. There's no regret actually because at the same time we're gaining new ones.
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