{"id":843,"date":"2012-10-16T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2012-10-26T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T11:43:03","slug":"visit-google-sf-and-california-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/visit-google-sf-and-california-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Google SF and California Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Riper invited JUG leaders and Java Champions to visit Google San Francisco. After the last sessions of the JavaOne conference, circa 5pm on Thursday evening, we walked as the motley crew from Hilton SF, to Google’s office next door to the Embarcadaro bridge. It was a real blast, and the hosts treated us fine. I thought it was pretty cool to see the USA Googler’s in their environment. We went on a mini-tour of the building. The views from the terraces of the Embarcadaro were stunning. Of course, a visit to Google is nothing without eating in the cafetaria, I have to say that the food was really nice, plenty to go around and it was after hours for working people, and I was impressed.<\/p>\n

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\nThis sign speaks for itself<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nStephan Janssen [L]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nKirk Pepperdine [L] sitting and Heinz Kabutz [R] figure out what is wrong with the muscle relaxer massage chair<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nBruno Souza and Juggy<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe famous slide between the third and fourth floors. It was chance to behave like a five year old again, yay!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nGreat view behind me of the Embarcadaro bridge and Treasure Island, memories of the Pearl Jam of the previous night. What a party?!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n A group photograph of the people, all of visitors to Google SF 2012. Thank you very Van Riper!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n Am I ready to become a Google Evangelist? Probably I could do it. Get Google to start developing JavaFX and\/or Scala applications, and then I will be there on the spot, most likely \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n

The day after JavaOne, I hit the road, jack … I took a shuttle back to San Francisco Airport (SFO) for fifteen bucks and hired a rental car for the remainder of my stay.<\/p>\n