Read about Tech Days sessions, hands-on labs, and general coverage through the blogs listed below or visit our Tech Days Event page on blogs.sun.com for more information.

 
Though I had to miss Sun evangelist Doris Chen ? s session, ? Building Rich Web Applications Using jMaki, ? she graciously consented to an interview.   Q: I understand you had standing room only at your session. Tell us about jMaki .   Chen: AJAX Architect for Sun Microsystems, Greg Murray, developed jMaki in 2006 as an open source universal interface to leverage all t ......
 
 
Saint Petersburg, with its immense intellectual resources, has in recent years taken serious steps to develop its IT sector and is now a strategic city in IT politics in Russia. Tech Days 2007, which was held here last year, was the biggest software developer conference in Russia up to that time. While the number count is not in, it ' s clear this year ' s Saint Petersburg ' s Tech Days is bigger, ......
 
 
Sun ? s VP of developer and community marketing, Ian Murdock ,   invited developers to reconsider the value of Linux in terms of open-source features that have been added to the Linux kernel and to take a look at Sun ? s efforts to make Solaris more accessible and appealing to Linux users. Murdock, the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and former CTO of the Linux Foundation, has bee ......
 
 
I realize that I haven ? t commented on some of the technology here at the actual event. A percentage of the attendees (less than I would have imagined) use headsets to listen to talks via simultaneous translation, which must be challenging for everyone involved, especially given the technical nature of the sessions. It reminds me that code is not about words but about concepts ? words will diff ......
 
 
Sun Microsystems ' technology evangelist, Chuk-Munn Lee ? s session on Java DB and MySQL gave a detailed overview of Java DB and helped developers determine when to use each. It ? s a bit hard to write about Java DB, given the attention that MySQL has received at Sun recently. There ' s been a flurry of excitement mingled with buzz since Sun bought MySQL for a cool billion. (And fun t ......