PENLETS.com

About Penlets.com

The two of us were able to attend JaveOne 2008, and we were pretty amazed at not only all of the products and services for Java developers, but also the gadgets that Java has found its way into. This seemed to be a core theme of JavaOne 2008, where they wired the conference with a sensor array, controlled by Java of course, that could sense among other things where the biggest crowds were. Then there was the "smart car" that drove itself, a real-time color ball sorting machine, and of course, the Pulse pen.

When the Pulse was presented I was sitting by myself, and received a text message from my friend saying, "I am getting one. Do you want one". Before I could respond I received another saying, "I got 3". It is probably a good thing he bought the pens before the presentation was over, there was a really long line to buy the pen following the presentation.

When we got back from the conference we explored the pre-release of the Java API, and started writing all of these little demo apps, just trying to see what you could do. That is what Penlets.com is all about, showing off those little demo apps, and helping you write your own. We hope that our enthusiasm of the Pulse pen shows as we show off the pen's cool features.

The Authors

Robert Hanson is the Manager of Applications Development for Quality Technology Services, a company providing hosting, managed services, and application development. There he plays a dual role of lead developer and architect, defining the processes that allow for the development of quality web applications.

Robert is a veteran programmer and web developer, cutting his teeth on Perl and ASP in the mid 90's before moving on to Java. Robert is passionate about programming and architecture, and has developed open-source software for both the Perl and Java communities. His latest venture is the GWT Widget Library, a set of tools for use with the Google Web Toolkit, a toolkit allowing you to write JavaScript applications in Java. In 2007 Robert co-authored the book GWT in Action with Adam Tacy, providing instruction on using the Google toolkit. Robert provides tutorials and random thoughts about the craft on his blog.

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