Life has gotten terribly busy as of late, and I have neglected to followup with my blog. First, I want to get my OOPSLA 2008 closing thoughts out of the way. I attended OOPSLA back in 2006 and was very impressed with the program… I got to meet a lot of big names in the [...]
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NFJS Day 3 Session 4: Designing for AJAX (Part 2)
March 9th, 2008
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Whew this session was a tough one for me to decide on what to go to. As I had previously mentioned, Ted Neward was giving a presentation on Scala this session. Jeff Brown had a session on using Groovy for builds. Nathaniel Schutta is presenting part two of Designing for Ajax, which would cover “advanced [...]
NFJS Day 3 Session 2: The Busy Java Developer Guide to Hacking the JDK
March 9th, 2008
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As an aside, I’m amused that all of Ted Neward’s sessions begin with “The Busy Java Developers Guide To…”, I guess that’s because us Java developers are always busy since we over-complicate everything. Anyhow, the session started with Ted’s usual wit and humor, and then moved on to exploring the tools available for hacking the [...]
NFJS Day 3 Session 1: Grails Agie Web 2.0 The Easy Way
March 9th, 2008
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Bleh… Sunday mornings can be a little rough, and the No Fluff Just Stuff conference is no exception… I feel literally beat. Luckily Jeff Brown’s session on Grails was able to keep me awake. I’ve dabbled with Grails a little before, but never really got into it and explored it further. Jeff gave a very [...]
NFJS Day 2 Session 2: The 90 Minute Startup
March 8th, 2008
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Michael started the presentation off with giving us a rundown of hosting/startup options throughout the years, breaking down the costs of each approach. He basically grouped them into four categories: Capital / Hosting Labor Lead Time Break-even Revenue Classic Hosting $5 – 6M $4 – 8M 12 – 18 months $370K per month Self-Service [...]
NFJS Day 2 Session 1: Design Paterns Reconsidered
March 8th, 2008
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Today I decided to be a bit pickier with the sessions I attended. I was going to go to Scott Davis’ presentation on Real World JSON, but decided against it since I already use JSON extensively and know how to serve it up from the serverside (as well as tools to nicely serialize/unserialize domain objects [...]
NFJS Session 3: JMX and Spring: Manageability for Spring-based Applications
March 7th, 2008
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Basically I went to this session since the last one from Ken Sipe was pretty good. As I came here though, I had no idea what the heck JMX is. Thankfully the first part of the presentation covered what JMX is, since of course you need to know what it is in order to even [...]
NFJS Session 2: Spring 2.5 – Spring Without XML
March 7th, 2008
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Now this is a session that by just glancing at the title and the slides I know it’s going to be good. My co-worker Phil HATES Spring mainly because he hates XML files (at least from what I’ve noticed from his knee jerk reaction when he sees an XML configuration file). So, I’m ready to [...]
NFJS Session 1: Developing Rich Internet Applications
March 7th, 2008
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So, I chickened out of attending the Spring + JPA + Hibernate session… party because I know how to use it a little and partly due to the knowledge there would be strong pushback since we had previously used Hibernate at work. With that in mind, I decided to attend Developing Rich Internet Appications with [...]
Off to St.Louis
March 7th, 2008
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I’m at work finishing up some emails and waiting for the morning huddle to communicate a few things to my team, then it’s off to St.Louis for No Fluff Just Stuff …or as Than keeps calling it, “No Stuff Just Fluff.” I’ll be posting live from the conference for anyone interested in the content of [...]
