Going to JavaOne!

Late last week I was asked by my manager if I would be interested in going to JavaOne this year. My answer was along the lines of “Hell Yes!”. Well, everything has been officially approved, and I’m now in the middle of booking my hotel and flight to San Francisco. A few of my colleagues here at Orbitz, Matt O’Keefe and Doug Barth, will be presenting on some of the cool event processing work we’ve been doing here at Orbitz. In addition to attending their presentation, I also plan on attending sessions on design, debugging, scripting on the JVM, tools, frameworks, and more. I can’t wait. It’s going to be a great experience!

Accurev blogs about Orbitz technology

Dzone just picked up on a post to the Accurev blog about some of the cool things our Development Technologies team has been doing at Orbitz. I’m proud to say that we have some really bright, talented people working on that team, and I’m glad that they are starting to get some attention outside of the company (those inside already know how great they are). This team innovates like crazy, constantly coming up with ways to make our lives as developers easier. They do it all, from writing scripts to automate complicated repetitive tasks, managing our continuous integration environment, keeping core infrastructure components like our wiki and bug reporting tool up and running to their full potential, and creating custom applications to improve upon all areas of our development process.

Go Doug, Jill, and crew!