Well, all what I would say here is – It was just great! Today I was one of many people attending Google Developers day and I’m telling you that it was worth it. I did spend there almost all day, I have to say that it was really well organized. It wasn’t as big as Sun Tech Days few weeks ago which were brilliant but it was Google’s first year and I hope the event will be much bigger next time (I hope there will be next time ).
I was a bit disappointed with the mobility session as in my opinion was way too short and covered just the basic staff and for people really interested in recent Google’s developments on the mobile platform well known already. The other thing is that people working for this company didn’t really want to talk about the future directions the company will take with their APIs development which was a bit disappointing, well, they say that they cannot talk about it. Why it’s so big secret I have no idea.
Anyway I’m quite impressed, I love this kind of events as they always give me some boost to evolve and try new stuff.
Below I post some pictures stolen from the blog created especially for the event, you can read about it more @:
http://code.google.com/events/developerday/uk-home.html
and the blog address with some more pictures @: http://googledeveloperday2007-uk.blogspot.com/

People in the main lounge:

One of the sessions:

Key note session at the beginning of the event:

Thanks Google!

I have just bought brand new, shiny Dell Inspiron 6400 with Windows Vista installed on it. Well, my Vista experience didn’t last long (about 2 hours) and after I had to restart my laptop several times and answer few questions everytime I wanted to do something (basically anything). I have decided to stop all this and go back to my favorite linux distro. I have left Vista on it as I will need it later for my university work, and decided to create a dual boot machine.
Now very good piece of advice for anyone buying a Dell computer – boot your machine from the recovery disk, install Vista from scratch and get rid of all this software preinstalled, this way you know what is going on.
Vista is quite resistive and wants to have all computer for itself but I had encountered a few very nice surprises.
First of all, Vista has quite nice partitioner. You can partition your disk in very easy and intuitive way.
Secondly and most importantly Ubuntu proved to be great again!
There is no conflict with the boot loaders, the Ubuntu GRUB doesn’t mess up Vista and nicely add it to the grub options. This was really nice as when I always start messing up with GRUB something strange comes out of it this is of course simple lack of understanding things but who has a time for it.
But that is nothing compare to the experience after installation! Everything works perfectly (so far ).
All the function buttons, MediaDirect buttos, wireless, memory card reader, nividia graphics (well this one with a little help from automatix), basically EVERYTHING!!!
I understand that this is probably a result of Canonnical and Dell cooperation and I have to say this – Thank you very much!

I have just started my frist project on java.net. This is an attempt to provide simple implementation of the JGG-API, the API for using Gadu-Gadu server, very popular chat in Poland, my home country. Everyone is welcome to participate! The mission is very simple, first of all, to make it work , I will try to use some of the design patterns which I learn on my own as well as maybe some implementation of popular swing hacks.
The project was launched yesterday, and you can test the basic functionality today (althought you have to be a registered GG user). So far the application is just able to connect and log in to the server, althought the API used is so simple that other functionality will come quickly together with gui staff. I must be completly mad starting this project now, as I just can’t stop coding, and its my exams time on university . Simple message to anyone interested – do not get mad at me if the subversion commits are delayed.