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Original Post: The Timeline
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Feed Description: I've been inescapably tagged as "the Java guy", despite the fact that I havn't worked in the Java product organization for a couple of years (I do still kibbitz). These days I work at Sun's research lab about two thirds of the time, and do customer visits and talks the other third. For more detail...
One of the cooler things that was done this year was the timeline. This was (is?) a set of panels along the wall in a hallway with years marked on it. Initially, the panels were blank. There were felt tip markers and invitations for people who pass by to write notes about events that happened in...