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I’m somewhat perplexed by what a blur the rest of the day was.

I think I managed to go to four talks. As impressive as that sounds, sadly I didn’t manage to last more than 10 minutes in any of them before having to run off for fairly inexplicable reasons (including but not restricted to terminal boredom).

One of the talks was about EJB3 best practices. I have a soft spot for this talk as I was the reviewer for it, and was secretly rooting for it. I was quite pleasantly surprised to see that the room was filled to overflow, and a bunch of poor bastards (including yours truly) had to stand in the back with nary a spot to park oneself at. The talk (or what I saw of it) went quite well, with interesting material and a refreshing disdain for all things helloworldy and petstorey.

The next talk I stopped by was Greg Luck’s ehcache talk, which though it had interesting material, wasn’t delivered particularly well. Greg, though a very smart guy, clearly looked like he wished to be somewhere else, which is a shame.

I also stopped by the ‘whats coming up in the next set of web specs’ towards the end of the talk. The problem here was very similar to Greg’s. While the material is interesting, the delivery is fairly abysmal. Also, when I walked in, for reasons that remain inexplicable, there was a jMaki demo going on. I really don’t understand what these Sun people think. How the fuck is it a good idea to discuss great upcoming spec features by shoehorning in an irrelevant little known obscure sun pet project? It’s not like jMaki isn’t covered elsewhere; there are at least a couple of other talks about it or related to it. So please, lets not mix specifications with hobbies.

Most perplexing however, is that I have no memory whatsoever of the last talk I peeped in on. I suspect though that it was so intensely boring that my brain simply shut down and refused to discuss what it saw, and is still in a bit of a sulk over the experience.

Socially, the usual madness and mayhem ensued. A decent meal followed by the now legendary Tangosol party wrapped things up nicely. I managed to also somehow piss off 3 different devzuz people, by snickering at key points while they earnestly try to point out how Mergere didn’t in fact die,  that Maven has a bright future, and that they’re going to do so well now. By far the most ludicrous experience was with Dave somethingortheother, who immediately launched into a heartfelt marketing gibberish spiel hurled in my general direction. I’m not quite quoting, but distilling his inane spastic drooling roughly results in: We’re going to avoid developers, and will aim at the high end. Our goal will be to take money from big companies who don’t know better, because developers are too poor and too smart to give us any money.

buy star trek movie online Depressingly, this might actually work (websphere, anyone?). Big companies are mindbogglingly talented when it comes to forking over lots of money for zero return. So please, if you do work for a big company that wants to hire these guys, do what you can to prevent it. They’re a sinister, insidious, scheming, disingenuous bunch of wankstains (well ok, the individuals are fine, the end result of mashing them up together isn’t). порно фото меньше 18

The evening was rounded off by the now sadly obligatory Rod Johnson moob discussion, and a quiet but growing movement is forming to lobby for an ice statuette whereby the delectable nectar can flow freely into the mouths of the converts, that they may imbibe of the holy juice and thus come closer to the penispenis.

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