| No Fluff, Just Stuff Conference 2004 | 09 Aug 04 | |
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I just got back from the Southern Ohio Java Symposium, a.k.a. the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference
in Cincinnati. Wow, what a great weekend. I blogged in detail about the
conference last year (NoFluffJustStuffFriday),
so I’m not going to go into detail about each session. Jay Zimmerman
takes this conference all over the states and targets a lot of cities that
might not otherwise have a lot of opportunities for technical conferences.
If No Fluff, Just Stuff comes around to your city, grab your team and
attend. It will be worth your time.
A couple of themes emerged from the conference. Aspect Oriented Programming may finally be coming of age. I first heard of AOP about 4 years ago. This year, there seemed to be more substance behind the buzz. We shall see. Another theme was the the strong belief among the speakers that although Groovy is still very much in its infancy, it has a strong possibility become very significant in the next few years. If you haven’t heard of Groovy, it is a dynamic scripting language built on top of the JVM. Unlike other JVM languages such as Jython and JRuby, Groovy is designed to work closely with Java and especially the Java libraries. A brief look at Groovy reveals a lot of similarities with Ruby. I’ll be looking at Groovy in more detail. I’ve got a couple ideas for blog entries inspired by the conference and I’ll post them here in time. blog comments powered by Disqus | ||
