{"id":106,"date":"2006-05-19T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2006\/05\/19\/java-champions\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T12:54:09","slug":"java-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2006\/05\/19\/java-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to this BOF just to kill some time before the Grails BOF.  It is interesting, just before attending this BOF I had read the blog entry by <a href=\"http:\/\/yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com\/javaone_notes_ajax_smackdown.htm\">Yakov Fain<\/a> about his impressions regarding the AJAX Smackdown session (my impressions are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2006\/05\/19\/ajax-smackdown\/\">here<\/a>).  Yakov is a Java Champion from the New York\/New Jersey area.  Durng this BOF, Yakov talked about the obvious benefits to being a Sun recognized Java Champion.  In regards to the negatives of such recognition he said, &#8220;my clients expect me to do miracles, why?  Because I&#8217;m a Java Champion.&#8221;  But Yakov admitted that he is a mere mortal programmer, with other priorities and a family.  To those that have the passion Yakov said, &#8220;If you want to be a leader, it&#8217;s easy.  Just be the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/javaone\" rel=\"tag\">javaone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/java\" rel=\"tag\"> java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bof\" rel=\"tag\"> bof<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to this BOF just to kill some time before the Grails BOF. It is interesting, just before attending this BOF I had read the blog entry by Yakov Fain about his impressions regarding the AJAX Smackdown session (my impressions are here). Yakov is a Java Champion from the New York\/New Jersey area. Durng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-1I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}