I am at JavaOne! The last time I was here was in '08, when it was run by Sun. Of course, it's run by Oracle now. The first day has been pretty good. I attended sessions on Garbage Collection, the Nashorn JavaScript engine, writing DSLs, and about parallelization options offered by JDK 7 and 8 to leverage multicore processors. Pretty good first day!
Nashorn looks pretty interesting and I will be giving it a closer look when I come back home. They are also looking for people to help out so I am going to see if I can contribute anything useful.
Today I will be checking out a talk on Lambdas by Brian Goetz and will also be going to a talk on Big Data. Finally I also have some BOF (birds of a feather) sessions on evolutionary algorithms and writing parsers in Scala. Pretty interesting day and I'm looking forward to it!