Notes and Pics from the Java Road Trip Stop at Burlington, MA, USA

The Java Road Trip spent an afternoon and evening in the parking lot at Oracle's Burlington, Massachusetts, USA office on Thursday, June 24. I had been working at the data center where I do most of my programming, and I pulled in beneath noisy skies, my car splashing through the puddles, as I strained to read the signs that identified each building and parking lot. Finally, I was in the right parking lot, and I saw the bus: Checking the radar on my BlackBerry, I saw a possibility that the storm would end before long. I was there quite early, so I assumed the event would indeed take place. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later, things were looking up: Soon the actual event was underway. Roger Brinkley demonstrated some interesting devices powered by Sun SPOTs, including a set of gloves that could be used control a laptop computer. Here, a volunteer is attempting to move puzzle pieces into the correct location using the gloves, without touching the laptop's keyboard: Here's a closer look at one of the gloves: Because the storm scared off the food caterer, several members of the Java Road Trip crew ran out for pizza. It's arrival peeled layers of people away from demo tent. I took this picture not too long after I'd consumed a couple of pieces, attempting to capture as many of the attendees as possible in one picture: I listened in on plenty of interesting conversations, people descri...

Date: June, 27 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/06/26/notes-and-pics-java-road-trip-stop-burlington-ma-usa

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