Post JavaZone

Well, JavaZone came and went, but it was the best so far. Lots of good presentations, and I espacially enjoyed some of them:

• Bruce Tate scared us by showing what can be accomplished with very few loc in Ruby and other dynamic languages.
  
• The methodology presentation fra the Telenor Mobile COS Team. They have really gone agile.
• Spring WebFlow by Keith Donald. Say goodbye to obscure code for directing the user to next page (I have seen lots of code not is NOT maintainable). This will probably be the replacement for Struts in Webapps with complex flows.
• Ted Newards SOA presentation was about what works and not. He left no doubt wa he believes is the way things should be done. Mostly common sense, but amusing.
  

Back in the office I feel like a hypocrite drinking coffe from the nice Java coffe cup (offered by Sun), while developing solutions in, god forbid, .Net.

Between sessions there where lot's of activity on the stands, and I think one of the main activity's was the game of changing jobs.

JavaZone 2005

It's been a really long time since the last post. Some of the reason is because that have been home for 1 month with my son (now 9 months), and having 4 weeks summerholiday afterworks. After that I almost forgot the thing (the blog...).

Now it's almost time for the yearly JavaZone Event in Oslo. I am really looking forward to it, because of Java, former colleagues and great sessions. There is no other event in Norway which can compare to this one, even though rOOts and some others have very good quality.

I have been using .Net for almost a year now, and not that it's really bad, but I miss Java. While there is a growing community for sharing code and ideas in the .Net world, the Java community is in another league in this respect.

I hope I will meet several of my former colleagues at TietoEnator at the Event. I shared some great tours and hard arguments with these people, and that I have not forgot!