I’m a No-Fluffer
I sacrificed my weekend to attend Omaha’s No Fluff Just Stuff. And I had a great time. Some of my highlights:
- I saw most of Ken Sipe’s talks, mostly because everything he talked about was applicable to me. My favorites of his were Iteration 0 (starting off on an Agile project) and the Scalability talk.
- Everyone in the room was awed by Alex Miller’s Terracotta talk. Terracotta is very, very cool stuff. Miller’s Collections talk was also very good. It wasn’t quite what I expected it to be, but that was a good thing. But Big-O doesn’t scare me.
- If you are ever at a conference with Ted Neward, you need to hear him speak. Seriously. Even if you don’t think you care about the subject, you need the experience. I learned tons from his talks and I heard that his threats on killing people for stupid things aren’t just idle threats. He also introduced me to my new best friend in the JDK — JConsole. Now if I can get JDK6 installed, I could do some serious JConsole scripting . . .
Was this conference perfect? Nah . . Sunday got a little long, I think there was too many Groovy talks, the Men’s room was too small, and there weren’t nearly enough outlets for laptops. But I don’t regret going !