I'm (we're) in New York, a week of vacation. (Growing list of photos can be found here.) A week in Brooklyn, and around, flea markets, book stores, museums, music. One of several highlights will be seeing "Death of a Salesman" with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the main role, tomorrow.

However, mentally, at least partly, I'm in Moscow, at JavaOne Moscow, 17 & 18 April.

http://www.oracle.com/javaone/ru-en/index.html

I'm doing two items there, thankfully on the first day, I always think the sooner the better:

• Tuesday 12:30 - 13:15 -- Unlocking the Java EE 6 Platform (in the Keynote Hall)
• Tuesday 16:30 - 18:15 -- Rapid Corporate Desktop Development (in HOL Room)

Several speakers I'm looking forward to seeing there include Bert Ertman who will be talking about Spring/Java EE 6 migration, Dalibor Topic talking about Lambda expressions in JDK 8, Arun Gupta with his Java EE 6 HOL (appears to be a partial overlap with my session), and various others. And I hope I will make it to Angela Caicedo's HOL on JavaFX.

The whole program, which is available via the link above, indicates that many (dare I say "most"?) of the sessions will be using NetBeans in one way or another. Looks like it will be a great conference.