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[Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...
Looking Glass demo
Sun's Looking Glass project was demoed in the general session this morning and it's absolutely amazing. I'd not seen it before and it's basically a 3D desktop environment written in Java. Windows can be transparent and can be spun around in 3 dimensions. It's also very fast.