60% of the developers use Macs. All the developers from Japan seem to be using Windows/Linux boxes. I believe the number @ JavaOne was somewhere between 75-80% using Mac. 200 people here, 3x more than last year, and they capped the event size. I’d expect more than 3x next year, if they allow it.
Extremely cool use of collaboration here. Users would write comments over IRC, people would chat over AIM, and there were ~ 10 people who had a shared document using SubEthaEdit for collaborative notetaking in Textile. The kids in college and high school are probably already doing this.
A LOT of luminaries here. There were seven of us at a table for lunch, three from ionami. Matz, the creator of Ruby blessed us with his presence. There should be some sort of recognizable glimmer or shine about him, such that we can recognize him as he walks. Shuga Maeda, who wrote mod-ruby, also sat next to us. We’re not worthy! Chad got to shake hands with Martin Fowler, and I, well, I got to stand 2 ft away from him.
We missed the roundtable discussion with Matz, but I figured we already got our own.