TSS Keynote
Here we go again! I’m at TSS in Vegas, and this time, I’m foolish enough to be speaking. The first such shenanigan was participating as part of some dodgy ‘panel’ during Geir’s keynote.
The original plan was sound, robust, and gave us a glimmer of hope that the keynote might not be so lame after all. Sadly, instead of planning or practicing, last night was spent eating, drinking copiously, and discussing whether ‘did you masturbate on the plane to Vegas’ is a reasonable question to ask the attendees during the keynote. The questions and practices in fact deteriorated significantly up until around 3am.
Fortunately, the whole thing went off without a hitch. Needless to say, we got to go through very few of our canned questions/topics. This was a very good thing, since it meant that the audience was doing the hard work of coming up with content and discussing the issues raised and so on.
I was tremendously pleased by the audience’s responses. It turns out that the majority of TSS attendees:
Surprisingly, the people doing real work in fact were a delightful contrast to the thoughtwanker/blogger crowd. There’s a lot more pragmatism and skepticism around. The silent majority really is one of Java’s greatest strengths.
The only downside though is that we ran out of time just as I was about to launch in a bitter tirade against JSF. My rage however was soothed when two people came up to me afterwards and told me their war stories of how they tried, very very hard, to deploy JSF, and ultimately failed due to its abysmal performance.
I’m in Cedric’s TestNG talk right now (I’ll be giving a tng talk at JavaOne, so figured it’d be useful to see what the tng guy himself has to say). Not a very difficult choice given how astoundingly tedious the other talks going on right now sound. We have Bob Lee’s webwork@google talk, where I’d imagine the audience is the kind of people who have that glazed blissful open mouth rictus of ecstasy thing whenever google squats over them and drops a turd. We have James Strachan’s SOA gibberish, which will no doubt be a cloudfest. We also have Clinton Begin’s agile crap. Clinton works for ThoughtWanks so he’ll probably just smear poo on his chest and burn some clippings of Martin Fowler’s beard in an attempt to invoke his spirit (no doubt with some pair programming minion in tow).
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
first
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
WTF? JSF’s sooo bad, blah blah blah. It’s 20ms slower OMG, weeks extra development would have been soo much better in hindsight.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Second!
This is the second post. If “comment authentication” whatever-the-f-that-is fails, remember: this is the second post
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Third…and use your own name you bastard
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Finally, some good content on javablogs. It is about time…. Too much ruby, groovy, rails, web 200.02 crap going on.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Did you know SOA is in Dutch what STD is in English?
March 24th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
“The silent majority”
…ohhhhhhkayyyy.
March 25th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Twenty third!
Wastes of skin, the lot of you
March 27th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
So did you masturbate on the plane to Vegas Hani? Did you? Did you?