I’m blogging this from the exhibition floor of the Java Conference ‘05 in Milan, where we have a presence. You’d expect that technical conferences like this one have free WiFi connectivity, but yesterday the only access point that I could detect led to a gateway page for a for-pay service.
Today I discovered an open access point instead. I don’t know if it is open on purpose but it doesn’t seem to be provided by the organization. Anyway, HTTP works, ssh works and Skype works, but IMAP, POP and AIM do not go through. Strange.
I briefly stuck my head into the room where Craig McClanahan was extolling once more the virtues of JSF but after five minutes I decided I wasn’t interested. In the afternoon I plan to attend the session by my namesake Ugo Landini on patterns, which promises to be entertaining. I wonder whether there’s going to be WiFi in that room.
I attended a talk about JSF earlier this week, and the speaker kept saying how much it would simplify things, but I just wasn’t seeing it.