Michael Yuan

I love to visit New England in the fall. At the first whim of winter, the entire forest explodes into bright red / yellow / orange. Last glory from the fleeting summer before the first snow turns them all white! The scenery is breath-taking no matter whether you are viewing from the air, along the highway, on a back road, or even just in front of a single tree. Well, I got to experience all these view points during my trip to Boston last week.

Despite the bad weather and horrendous flight delays, the magnificent view made the trip all the worthwhile. Click on the follow pictures to enter the photo album.

I gave a 2-hour talk on JBoss Seam in the New England Java User’s Group last Thursday. Although the talk was at the same night as a crucial game for Red Sox, it still managed to attract 250+ people — making it one of largest JUG meetings I have ever attended! I had a great time there, and learned first hand about how Java developers in the Boston area are using JBoss Seam to solve real world problems. For those who are interested, the presentation itself can be found here:

Slides for the JBoss Seam presentation in NEJUG, Oct 18th 2007

I enjoyed a “re-union” with my Red Hat colleagues in the Boston area: Shelly McGowan, Chantal Yang, Bill Burke, Kurt Stam, and Rajesh Rajasekaran. Thank you guys for making the meeting a success! In addition, I’d also like to thank Mark Johnson (the president of the NEJUG), Heather Fox (publicist at Prentice Hall), and Shaun Connolly (my sponsor at Red Hat) for organizing everything!

Finally, a couple of references to things I mentioned in the meeting:

• My Seam book
• Seam web site (download, docs, forums etc.)
• The Red Hat Developer Studio is the premier Eclipse-based IDE tool for Seam development. Its free / open source cousin is the JBoss Tools project.
• There will be a lot Seam coverage in the upcoming JBoss World conference. Register early!