The morning was partially taken up by the usual last-day denoument at the hotel. I will sometimes not leave until the day after just because this detracts so much from the experience of whereever I am.

Jim Baker emailed me about talking to Tobias Ivarsson from Sweden, who is one of the two Google "Summer of Code" students working on bringing Jython up to conformance with Python version 2.5.

Most of the day was taken up in preparation for the evening presentation on Flex with James Ward. Our goal was to create an anti-bullet-point experience because people have already had a couple of days of bullet points by then.

The deal for my press pass was that I am to blog daily about Java One. Which I consider a fair exchange, and sometimes I appreciate having a little (not too big) fire lit under me to write.

I've just finished reading Jeffrey Zeldman's book "Designing with Web Standards" (New Riders 2003), and it has answered a number of questions and dashed a fair number of my hopes for actual standard standards in the near future.

The most interesting part of this is not the tool -- although that was fun to create -- but the process of letting go that allowed me to build it.

"Buy Now" buttons are a great invention because they dramatically simplify sales via the web. But they only solve part of the problem.

Old: Seller pays. New: Buyer pays.

I finally got around to setting up Google checkout for an upcoming conference. It rocks!

I've come to rely on other people rather than RSS feeds to point out the really important stuff to me.

Netflix has been everyone's darling long enough that customer abuse has slowly been creeping into their business model. It's ironic that they were the ones that, through competition, forced Blockbuster to stop abusing customers.

James Ward and I just finished an eSeminar, which was recorded as we gave it. The URL is available here, so you can listen to and view the recording.

Observations from Pycon 2007.

After telling everyone I was going to wait-and-see about Windows Vista, I ran into a problem.

The Java backlash has been building up steam, and we’re starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.