Sun Microsystems hosted a contest that turned out sour for me. You had to blog about JavaOne 2009 technical sessions. I did not attend JavaOne. This was not supposed to be a problem as they post the technical sessions online.I opted to view the JavaOne technical sessions as PDF documents. Sun makes you sign up for their Sun Developer Network (SDN) to view the PDFs. This seemed like a hassle. But it was free so I decided to go through the motions. I created a new account. The directions told me to respond to an e-mail to confirm my address.
Here's the thing. I never received the e-mail. It is bad enough that I had to go through these hoops to access the technical content. But some glitch resulted in the process not working. Yeah I could try again. Why should I? This is going to take some time and might not even work again. My time is worth money. Now I don't want to blog about JavaOne technical info. Fail.
