Ben Galbraith presenting without his usual partner, Dion Almaer. I didn’t learn anything new; it was largely an AJa X? demo. At least Ben is an entertaining speaker. Perhaps their new site, Ajaxian, will prove more educational over time.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Naked Objects Applied
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Another great presentation from Eitan Suez full of live demonstrations. Naked Objects is a fun framework that seeks to automatically generate your presentation and persistence layers from your model classes. The buzzword of choice is “radical simplification,” which Eitan supported by a great quote:
If anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when […]
Expert Panel
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
My notes from the NFJS? expert panel, which was not as good as 2004 but still fun:
Ben Galbraith spoke about the uncertainty principle and paradox of choice. Advises that architects choose something that works, and don’t get distracted by the latest shiny framework. The best choices for your project will not be those […]
The Fallacies of Enterprise Systems
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Ted Neward put on an extremely disappointing show. He simply recycled the The Eight Fallacies of
Distributed Computing plus two predictable additions, and droned on and on in an effort to fill the time alloted reading through them. Most of that filler was devoted to his own ego.
Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Dave Thomas has a great presentation (that he somehow seems to enjoy giving despite doubtless hundreds of sessions) on the progression of people from novice to expert.
Great subtitle quote: “People improvement trumps process improvement”
Mostly, this was an application of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition?. As Dave so eloquently explains, the model tracks a […]
Shale - The Next Struts
March 18, 2005 – 12:00 am
David Geary, a fellow with a lot of Struts cred and a serious affection for JSF gave a repeat of his JavaOne talk on Shale?. It was largely an introduction, a bit of sales pitch, and some Craig McClanahan hero worship (which I’ve been guilty of myself, of course).
David is a very knowledgeable guy, […]
XML Data Binding with JiBX
March 18, 2005 – 12:00 am
Eitan Suez gave a great presentation on JiBX. He had great slides for reference, but spent the session time demonstrating the use with real, from-scratch examples. He only returned to the slides for some strong conceptual presentations, such as the weaving of XML and Java references together into a mapping file.
JiBX itself looks […]
The Real Lincoln
March 6, 2005 – 1:34 pm
Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln is a frightfully timely discussion of a President that ruthlessly pursued his political agenda to increase the fortunes of his comrades at the expense of the nation, yet used patriotic rhetoric to garner popular support and still enjoys broad adoration. The back cover subtitle best sums up the […]
