190 symposiums and 29,500 attendees since 2001

Simon Ritter

Technology Evangelist with Sun

Simon Ritter
Simon Ritter specialises in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, RFID, wireless sensor networks, robotics and wearable computing. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon joined Sun in 1996 and started working with Java technology; he has spent time doing both Java development and consultancy.


Blog

No Fluff, Just Stuff

Posted Monday, August 13, 2007

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Return to academia

Posted Friday, July 13, 2007

Yesterday we held an event at the Customer Briefing Centre in our London City office. This was extremely well attended, to the point that we were probably on the verge of breaking fire regulations. A hundred and ten people in a room that really sh more »

Trapdoor in a rowing boat

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007

That's a great analogy for just how useful British Airways customer service and baggage tracing is. The good news is I finally got my bag back! I got home from Malta on Saturday morning and checked, once again, the baggage tracing web more »
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Presentations

JavaFX

The demand continues to grow for secure, interactive content, applications, and services that run on a variety of clients. To simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, Sun is introducing JavaFX, a n more »

JavaFX

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Simon Ritter By Simon Ritter

The demand continues to grow for secure, interactive content, applications, and services that run on a variety of clients. To simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, Sun is introducing JavaFX, a new family of products based on Java technology designed to enable consistent user experiences, from desktop to mobile device to set-top box to Blu-ray Disc.

JavaFX allows you to:- * Build and Run Interactive Content Quickly and Easily * Create Visually Compelling and Dynamic Application * Increase Speed Time-to-Market with Technology Independence and Enhanced Consistency * Reduce Costs, Expand your market * Develop openly under the GPL license



In this presentation by Sun technology Evangelist, Simon Ritter, begin to understand the possibilities that JavaFX presents, and how it can help your applications and services can reach more customers on more devices than ever before.