No Fluff Just Stuff is over
So this past weekend I attended the
Twin Cities No Fluff Just Stuff conference. This happens to be the one
conference I can always expect my company to send me to because A) it's
in town and 
it's cheap. For three days and/or 12 different sessions
you get to see what is the technologies the cool kids are getting to
play with. It's a very heady conferences with some bill names talking
about some really impressive topics.
For the most part I was happy with all of the session I attended and learned some really interesting topics. I'm definitely looking forward to using JSF 2.0 on some upcoming project. I've felt JSF with Richfaces has been an excellent web framework for java developers. I found the Groovy session very interesting but frightening at the same time. I don't think I'd ever want to maintain a Groovy application.
One thing I did take away from this is it has renewed my interest in technology and software development. It's hard to not go to one of these conferences and not come out with some ideas on how to improve your current processes. It's very clear to me that we are falling too far behind in technology which is limiting the productivity of our developers. The problem is convincing a slow moving company to make some leaps and risks.
One thing I have started following up on is Spring's TC Server. We had a presentation at work by some of the SpringSource folks a couple weeks back. I was very impressed with their application monitoring process and see TC Server as a possible alternative to our current WebSphere application servers. Slowly but steadily I have been refactoring out our dependency on EJBs. I think we can easily move to a light weight stack for the majority of the applications my team supports. The only hiccup may be pricing for a POC.
I enjoyed the conference because it was nice to see old friends and to learn about where the industry is heading. I do wish they would offer more presentations about Spring so that it's more focused on the topics I care about. I sure don't need 45 minutes on Spring MVC when I'll never make that transition.
it's cheap. For three days and/or 12 different sessions
you get to see what is the technologies the cool kids are getting to
play with. It's a very heady conferences with some bill names talking
about some really impressive topics.For the most part I was happy with all of the session I attended and learned some really interesting topics. I'm definitely looking forward to using JSF 2.0 on some upcoming project. I've felt JSF with Richfaces has been an excellent web framework for java developers. I found the Groovy session very interesting but frightening at the same time. I don't think I'd ever want to maintain a Groovy application.
One thing I did take away from this is it has renewed my interest in technology and software development. It's hard to not go to one of these conferences and not come out with some ideas on how to improve your current processes. It's very clear to me that we are falling too far behind in technology which is limiting the productivity of our developers. The problem is convincing a slow moving company to make some leaps and risks.
One thing I have started following up on is Spring's TC Server. We had a presentation at work by some of the SpringSource folks a couple weeks back. I was very impressed with their application monitoring process and see TC Server as a possible alternative to our current WebSphere application servers. Slowly but steadily I have been refactoring out our dependency on EJBs. I think we can easily move to a light weight stack for the majority of the applications my team supports. The only hiccup may be pricing for a POC.
I enjoyed the conference because it was nice to see old friends and to learn about where the industry is heading. I do wish they would offer more presentations about Spring so that it's more focused on the topics I care about. I sure don't need 45 minutes on Spring MVC when I'll never make that transition.
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