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  Rich Web Experience

  A trip report from Arun on the very first event held in San Jose. He mentions (and points) to the most popular sessions. There's a nice centralized collection of jMaki links.

  The show pulls into Atlanta in April 2008 for all the East Coasters and returns to San Jose next September.

  Posted 10 Sep 07

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  NFJS Blog Posts

  You can get to the blog posts of speakers through the main NFJS page. But, how about blog posts by other users? If you write a blog post, link to it here.

  Posted 23 Jul 07

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  Scott Davis' REST Talk

  InfoQ has video of Scott's web services talk. He gave this one at the Raleigh NFJS event and pumps up REST without criticizing (much) SOAP. I only watched the beginning to confirm that it was the talk I've seen. If you're into GIS, you'll get a double bonus form this session. A lot of his API examples are REST interfaces to mapping services.

  He's a really animated speaker and has a very engaging style. This is typical of the better NFJS sessions.

  Posted 31 Aug 07

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  Confreaks

  What a great idea! I missed the Hoedown, but I can  see the talks. I hope they keep it up with the local groups. There's a lot of action going on.

  Posted 22 Aug 07

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  How to convince your boss to pay for NFJS?

  Active thread on theserverside

  Posted 22 Aug 07

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  Bruce Tate's Ruby Hoedown Talk

  Is posted here.

  Although it isn't a NFJS event, Bruce has done many sessions at NFJS. This is a pretty interesting talk because he blends a little bit of his "Beyond Java" material with some "Where is R/R going?"

  A couple of choice quotes and ideas:

  • Ruby is in a good place because there is no legacy code to muck it up. Bloat happens, but careful; Ruby is not necessarily immune to that
  • Ruby isn't successful (just) because it is beautiful, it solves certain business problems well
  • Where could Ruby go wrong? What if IBM owned R/R? What would Websphere/Rails look like?
  • Bad places to go: COBRA, distributed transactions, concurrency.

  Interesting that he says applications may not be the right place to handle concurrency. Perhaps it is best left to lower layers (i.e. C/C++). OO languages might not be the best way to handle concurrency at all and he mentions in passing that functional programming might be the best suited. He says he is "very afraid" of Brian Goetz's Java Concurrency in Practice book.

  Finally, he suggests the best way to avoid bloat is to deprecate like crazy and never abandon beginning programmers; that this is why Java can't train young programmers without a deluge of docs and API binders.

  Posted 21 Aug 07

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  Del.icio.us Tags

  http://del.icio.us/tag/nfjs

  Posted 14 Aug 07

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  Java vs. Groovy

  Matt Secoske posted his presentation notes comparing Java to Groovy. I'm not expecting a smack down here...

  Posted 06 Aug 07

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  The Spring Experience

  It's hard to imagine during this current summer heat, that December in Florida can be a bit of relief from the cold. Here's your chance. NFJS is hosting The Spring Experience for in Hollywood, FL beginning December 12th.

  Posted 03 Aug 07

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  NFJS Podcasts

  Agile Toolkit Podcast has this podcast of Reston's fall 2006 panel discussion

  Posted 01 Aug 07