[PJUG Javamail] Good news/bad news on JavaOne papers...

[Brian Mason]

Congratulations Douglas.
This year it was my turn to get the rejection email.  Actually I have
gotten several rejections over the years :)  6 rejections to 4
accepted.
With luck I will come here your presentation down there.


Brian.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Douglas Bullard
<dbullard at nurflugel.com> wrote:
> I got some good news today - the paper I submitted to JavaOne was
> accepted!  "Object-Oriented Ant Scripts for the Enterprise"  will be
> presented in all it's glory this June at JavaOne in San Francisco,
> before an audience of fellow Java dudes.
>
> The bad news?  I actually have to present the thing now.  You know how
> they say to imagine your audience naked?  In my version, it's me
> that's naked, presenting something to people far more intelligent than
> I am, and more knowledgeable about the subject matter.  Q&A will be
> pure torture.  Of course, this is a revised version of what I've
> already presented to PJUG, and I survived that (never mind the
> experience of seeing you all naked.  It wasn't pretty.).
>
> Of course, the good part is that I get a free conference pass (much $$
> $), and there's a good chance I can guilt my company into ponying up
> airfare PTO, meals, and hotel.
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped me shape my abstract and outline (and
> reshape it again and again) into something worth submitting.
>
> Now I gotta get working on the real thing....
>
>
> Doug
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