Looks like our hard work paid off. After last week's live show and the problems we had with audio skipping, etc, we completely deconstructed our process, put it back together, and load tested it. That really paid off. There were no problems reported with our server (yet) or connecting that we have pointed to as being on our side.

Ted Neward and Bruce Tate did a great job of putting Java in good perspective for us. At one point we had Rory and Dan Appleman on Skype, Bruce on the phone, and Ted and I in the studio.

On the show, Dan mentioned that Desaware is now selling their complete COM and .NET libraries for about 500 bucks each, and that includes source code! I was also pleased to learn that all their .NET products were written in VB.NET. If that isn't a good testimonial as to why VB6 programmers should move to VB.NET, I don't know what is. I'd like to hear about other major products and/or websites that were written with VB.NET.

Also on the show, we had the nice people from PerForce on the line to talk about their SCM product, which really sounds great. I plan on using it in-house. I also played and sang our theme song, Toy Boy on accoustic guitar (a first).

Anyway, the show will be online Monday. Even if you don't code in Java you may eventually have to interop with it. It's interesting stuff regardless of what you are using now.