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Have you ever heard of a guy called Robert Scoble?

Love him or loathe him he has quite a popular blog - http://scobleizer.com

And on that blog he wrote about BEA http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/09/pc-world-does-the-right-thing-and-other-stories/

Current Technorati rankings see Robert as having the 38th most popular tech blog in the world. That's a whole load of eyeballs looking at a post that says, "When BEA has wikis, RSS feeds, mashups, blogs, tag clouds and more... you know the world has totally changed."

Look out for this changed world at a city near you, or if you can't wait until June 6th in Sydney, point your browser here, http://en.terpri.se

Sean

They already did.

Have a look at the transcript of our recent earnings call; http://seekingalpha.com/article/35790 specifically this bit, "...some of the customers buying BEA technology in Q1 included Cablevision, Hilton Hotels, Oracle Corporation, Petrobras, Visanet and Warner Brothers Entertainment."

Makes me chuckle every time I read it. How many times have you seen Oracle to buy BEA rumours? Well they already did.

Sean

"A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience"

Join us at a Dev2Dev Tech Day at a city near you to learn more.

Canberra & Sydney May 29th, Brisbane May 30th, Melbourne May 31st... The world of IT is being overturned by the Web 2.0 phenomenon and Mashups seem to promise so much. What's the reality? And what's the impact of these developments on enterprise computing?

Register here to learn BEA's take...

http://www.beasystems.com.au/dev2dev/

And, every attendee will take home a DVD containing WebLogic Portal 10, AquaLogic User Interaction, WebLogic Server 10 & Workshop 10. In addition, you will have access to the code from our demos on http://dev2dev.bea.com

Look out for BEA here...

http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/03/update_on_web_2.html

June 6th, KPMG Centre, Sydney.

We'll be launching our Web 2.0 products in Australia - or is that Enterprise 2.0? (thanks for that term go to my new Facebook friend Andrew McAfee http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/ ).

It's an invitation only event and the 70 invitations are sure to be the hottest Web 2.0 ticket in town. For more on the BEA offerings, head here http://en.terpri.se

Sean

Thanks to Bill http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/wgroth2/ I took the nerd test.

It seems I am nowhere near the nerd level of the Vice President of the Workshop Business Unit. I am absolutely on the mid-point of the nerd range, nerdier than 49% of all people.

I am 4600 nerd basis points away from a VP job. I have a lot of work to do.

Sean

I'm off to the Hotel CBD in the heart of the city of Sydney this afternoon for the first in our series of Dev2Dev Tech Days. Devon Winkworth from my team is presenting today, and we have a really great level of interest judging by the number of attendees registered.

I'm really looking forward to the event. If you're there, make sure and say hello. Oh, and the drinks are on me!

I can't be in two places at once but we're also hosting Canberra's developer community today - Brisbane tomorrow, Melbourne Thursday.

If you haven't registered, clicky here http://www.beasystems.com.au/dev2dev/

Sean

BEA Participate is an exclusive event for Australia and New Zealand BEA customers, filled with a whole days worth of product, customer, and partner sessions all focused on BEA AquaLogic Interaction and associated products. It's going to be a great opportunity to learn more about BEA's Business Interaction and Business Integration solutions, and to keep abreast of new product developments, implementation best practices and portal development tips-and-tricks.

We've got a great audience of customers lined up and it's all happening tomorrow at The Establishment in downtown Sydney.

I'm looking forward to it... share experiences across the customer base, networking, and we've got a couple of international BEA execs in for the event. We'll also be having a sneaky-peeky at our very latest Enterprise 2.0 products that will redefine "participation" for every business user.

And of course we'll be finishing off with a Group Networking Cocktail Function. Woot!

See you there,
Sean

So the first round of our new improved Dev2Dev Tech Days has come and gone.

We hosted our developer audience in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne and got the Mashup message out to a great turn-out in each city.

Attendees in Sydney were hit with a pop quiz during their presentation just to keep the interest levels up - Do you know what AJAX stands for? JSON? REST? What does idempotent mean? Congratulations to the winners (and see below for the answers).

Attendees in Brisbane not only got to learn all about Mashups the BEA way, took home a Dev2Dev giveaway and a DVD... they also got to see Johnny Depp and Keira Knightly go around in "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At Worlds End".

We'll be hosting these events every three months or so, and we'll widen the audience so Perth, Adelaide, Auckland, Wellington watch out. Dev2Dev Tech Days are coming your way.

Thanks to all who attended and filled out the feedback forms, and extra special thanks to the presenters from my team - Devon, Campbell, Raju - great job guys, well done and thank you.

-Sean

Oh, and the pop quiz answers; Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, JavaScript Object Notation, Representational State Transfer, and an idempotent operation is one where multiple applications of that operation will yield the same result (thanks wikipedia!)