This month it’s 10 years since Java was first announced.
I was reminiscing that I was quite lucky to work with a great team (known affectionately as BMC-Group) that was always on the bleeding edge of technology and innovation. We embraced Java technology very early on (1996) and produced some fantastic early concept products which eventually led to quite a significant project, Visual Vectors (complete with the odd battle scar from using bleeding edge technology 
As a result, Over the last decade, BMC-Group has spawned some great java developers PVS, DJJ, WCW, AWL, MLQ, MAS, OJB, BPH.
These guys have gone on to be the driving force behind some popular Java tools
Checkstyle, Fisheye and Clover
However – The person who originally introduced BMC-Group to this exciting world, was a very talented recently recruited university graduate; Eric Fu. Eric left the team back in 1997 to explore the world and work on other exciting stuff. Feeling a bit nostalgic, I was lucky enough to catch up with Eric on Yahoo IM last week to find out what he was up to nowadays.
Amazingly, 10 years later. Eric and I are now in different companies, on different continents and without knowing it we are effectively both working on the same project to create the next generation of the mobile applications and devices using Symbian C++, technology. Some exciting mobile devices such as the N91 from Nokia. One things for sure, the smartphone market and mobile internet is really starting to look interesting (in a similar way to the internet looked back in 1995).
