NFJS Coming Up (Yet Again)
Only a mere five days from now I’ll be attending the NFJS Gateway Software Symposium for the 4th time… and I’m pleased to say I’m quite excited. NFJS is one of those conferences that just has a knack for being fun, small, easily accessible, and very very educating.
The “educating” part however is the only aspect that has me a little worried, since this being my 4th NFJS conference I worry there may not be much new to see… and a quick initial glance at the sessions I easily spot many of the usual sessions they’ve had in the past… so what to do? 
Without a doubt, I’ll have to attend Michael Nygard’s session “Failures Come In Flavors.” I actually had the pleasure of meeting Michael last year at the GSS Fall edition at the hotel lobby bar… from the discussion we had about software development I could tell the session would be interesting, but unfortunately missed it due to having to head back to Columbia early on Sunday. So I’ll be “making it up” this time around. Additionally, he is also giving another session titled The 90 Minute Startup that sounds pretty interesting too.
The session that stands out is Nathaniel Schutta’s Designing for Ajax (Part 2). Why am I only interested in part 2? One reason… one reason only… Google Gears. Google Gears is one of the most interesting things I’ve toyed with lately that sadly your average developer has no idea what it is (but should).
Anyway, feel free to hit me up if you happen to be attending. If not, keep an eye here as I’ll try to post some fresh content daily from the sessions, if not just quick notes on what’s going on. Hopefully I’ll have something enlightening to post! 
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March 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
re: Gateway NFJS. Cool beans… I’ll be there as well.
re: Michael Nygard. He was a revelation for me back in Sept 07. Brilliant guy and wonderfully dry sense of humour….
I’ll keep an eye out for you. I don’t yet which sessions I’ll be attending (decisions, decisions…)
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Cool… I noticed you’re from ociweb, I know alot of good people from there (I’m probably attending Mark Volkmann’s session on ANTLR as well as Jeff Brown’s Grails sessions).
Should be fun.