2G Experience, Day One
21 Feb - 14:51 EST - Right now, I'm waiting for Neal Ford's preso on Design Patterns in Groovy to begin. Scott Davis gave the keynote and among the highlights is the fact that Groovy is now 31 on the TIOBE. Many well wishes were sent out to Guillaume Laforge who couldn't be here due to impeding child birth.
I'll be trying to post photos on flickr throughout the day under the tag "2gx". Stay tuned.
14:59 - Design Patterns in Groovy room is packed.
15:50 - Neal has gone through some of the more popular patterns from the Gang of Four book and has shown how they are built into Groovy or easily implemented.
"...the title should have been 'how to make C++ suck less.' " [Gang of Four book]
"It's not that they are statically typed that they are bad, it's the amount of ceremony you have to go through to get something done(essense)". - on how the argument isn't static vs. dynamic, it's ceremony vs. essense.
Really good preso, gave some good insight on how to implement AOP features in Groovy.
16:47 - A little downtime, scoping out my seat for Graeme's talk on plugins.
19:23 - Grubbin. Went to Graeme's talk, a good evolution of the plugin talk from Grails Exchange...lots of new content and somewhat of a teaser for his talk tomorrow on Spring and Hibernate. I'm liking the thought of a Grails platform (Grails - the web bits). Maybe that idea can be expanded more in the space of a Grails/Swing mashup (shameless plug - I helped Andres with the app code for his preso tomorrow). Added a couple pics on Flickr.
22:10 - Hotel bar waxing philosophical on Flex, Swing and the like.
12:30 - Bit of a midnight code session. Hacked a bit on hCardBuilder.
01:22 - Time for bed.