I stayed in the Hilton (Continental Ballroom 7/8/9) to see Geertjan Wielenga's (Oracle Development Tools Principal Project Manager) presentation "Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform." Geertjan's bio on his blog summarizes his involvement with NetBeans:

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After grabbing an Italian Classic Combo for another JavaOne 2012 lunch, I headed to Hilton Imperial Ballroom B to see the presentation "Mastering Java Deployment." The speakers, both from Oracle, were Mark Howe and Igor Nekrestyanov.

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After the late-ending Community Keynote, I headed to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see Viktor Klang's (Typesafe) "Up, Up and Out: Akka" presentation. Klang is the technical lead on Akka.

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The third and final keynote, the Java Community Keynote, started the final day of JavaOne 2012. Although the first two keynotes were held in the Masonic Center, this one was held in Hilton Continental Ballroom.

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It was worth attending Staffan Larsen's (Oracle Java Serviceability Architect) presentation "Diagnosing Your Application on the JVM" (Hilton Plaza A/B) just for learning of the new jcmd command-line tool provided with Oracle's JVM 7. The rest of the presentation was "bonus" for me, which was nice for the last session I attended on Wednesday of JavaOne 2012.

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Guillaume Laforge's (SpringSource/VMware/@glaforge) "What's New in Groovy 2.0" presentation was in the same conference room (Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8) as Martin Odersky's "What's New in Scala 2.10" presentation, but I decided to leave the room between these sessions for three reasons:

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After getting lunch, I went to Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8 to see Martin Odersky's (Typesafe) presentation "What’s New in Scala 2.10." It is always an opportunity to hear a language's creator discuss the language that he created.

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I returned to the Hilton (Imperial Ballroom B) to see Richard Bair's (Oracle Java Client Architect) "JavaFX Graphics Tips and Tricks." Bair is associated with FX Experience and obviously knows JavaFX.

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I went to Parc 55 Mission to see Jitendra Kotamraju's (Oracle) presentation "JSR 353: Java API for JSON Processing." Kotamraju is the JSR 353 specification lead, so it's safe to assume he knows something about this "JSON for Java" JSR.

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After another tasty breakfast at Honey Honey Cafe & Crepery, I attended my initial Wednesday session, again in the Hilton (Imperial Ballroom A). The presentation was "Griffon, Up Close and Personal" and the presenters were Ix-chel Ruiz (@ixchelruiz) and Andres Almiray (@aalmiray).

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I returned to the Hilton (Continental Ballroom 4) to attend Jan Lahoda's (Oracle/NetBeans) Birds-of-a-Feather presentation "Custom Static Code Analysis." I have previously blogged on a subset of the functionality covered by Lahoda in the post Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom Hint.

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I returned to Parc 55 (Mission conference room) to see Max Katz's (Exadel Developer Relations) "Building Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Java" Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) presentation. Specifically, Katz is in Developer Relations for Tiggzi, a cloud-based app platform.

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My first trip to Hotel Nikko for JavaOne 2012 came on Tuesday afternoon when I ventured to Nikko Ballroom II/III for David Hill's "JavaFX on Smart Embedded Devices." This was my second during-conference change in sessions.

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The first session I attended after lunch was Venkat Subramaniam's "Scala Tricks," held in the Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 conference room area. This is the first session in which I switched my planned session during JavaOne.

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I returned to Hilton Yosemite A/B/C to see two speakers from the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering (Werner Dietl and Michael Ernst) speak on The Checker Framework in a presentation called "Build Your Own Type System for Fun and Profit."

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