As many of you know, I was invited to JavaOne 2008 as Press Analyst by Sun Microsystems. I went all the way from India to attend the event. It was a very hectic schedule for me and throughout the event I was jetlagged. As such I wasn't able to cover as much as I would have liked. The one thing which caught my eye most was the immense Sun hype over JavaFX. As an architect, it struck me as odd that they went all the way to invent a new language, what was essentially Javascript. I didn't get a good feeling about the architecture, about the concept in general and I came away with the distinct impression of too-little-too-late.

A Google designer recently quit decrying Google's over-reliance on data, even for simple design decisions. Is it bad or is the designer plain wrong?