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It took at least two hours to get there but it worths it. Olmsted Point with an amazing view on the Half Dome and the Yosemite Valley - I met a marmot there, Tenaya Lake - you could stay there for hours just starring at the water and the surroundings, ...

Awesome! Magnifique! C'est beau, c'est grand. The day started at 6am and ended at 7pm, a short walk to get a look at the giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove, then down to the park to Yosemite Village for sighting and walking, hiking, walking... exhausting but refreshing. Tomorrow, same deal but ...

Just arrived in Oakhurst at the Best Western hotel. The room is very big, around 60 square meters, with kitchen, big bed, and large bath, free high speed internet. Now I'm going to the visitor information place and to buy some fruits and water for the next two days in ...

A video I shot during the lab showing one SPOT acting as a remote and the other SPOT connected to the trackbot, pretty neat!

This lab was about discovering the Sun SPOT technology. The SPOT has similar sensors/accelerometers as the Wii remote. It was really cool, I got two Sun SPOT modules to play with and a TrackBot. We went through multiple exercises, the one with the most fun was when we ...

Bob Brewin, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer, Software. Danny Coward, Java SE lead. Nasa World Wind (simlar to Google Earth) now available as a Java open source component, a simple bean you can have in your Netbeans palette and drop on a frame, add some bindings, some ...

A brief introduction to Ruby, JRuby, Ruby On Rails, JRuby On Rails. Nothing really new to me as I had played with Ruby On Rails already and with JRuby On Rails last week. Although there was one new exciting stuff I discovered: GoldSpike or how to package your ...

(live blogging on its way) It's 8:49, first general session is running, John Gage is on the stand introducing the conference. Everybody stands up and Gage asks people here for the first time to seat down (I'm seated now), people with 2 JavaOne to seat down, with 3 years, ...