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Java Collection Power Techniques By: Glenn Vanderburg
Glenn's talk covered many of the methods that live on the Collection interface which many programmers end up implementing themselves. He also showed many code examples of advanced way's to utilize decorators and adapters with Collections. I've done some of this in the past so I was pretty familiar with the concepts. Unfortunately, many of the problems he solved after this seemed to be very academic in nature and I can't say that I've run across them in the real world. That's not to say I will never, but at this point I will take them for what they are worth. The best take away from this session is to look around before implementing something yourself.
Introduction to Spring By: Bruce Tate
I'm typically not a big fan of Bruce Tate's presentations since they are very slideshow driven but since there was nothing else of interest, I attended anyway. I've been looking at Spring for sometime now so I'm fairly well versed with what it can do. My goal was to gain some insight for his presentation and apply it to one that I will be giving soon. All in all, he did a pretty good job describing the benefits of Spring. One thing that scared me was he made the comment that Spring is similar to the BASF marketing spiel "We don't make a lot of the products you buy, we make a lot of the products you buy better". I've said this very thing several times in the past couple months. Weird!
Javascript Exposed By: Glenn Vanderburg
All I can say is Wow. I never knew Javascript was as robust a language as Glenn portrayed. The talk started off talking about how Javascript got a bad name back in the early days of Netscape and Internet Explorer. Neither did a very good job of supporting it. The other downfall was that developers were not really learning the language either. Instead of starting from the ground and working their way up, they performed copy/paste/modify routines that quickly spread bad or inferior code world wide. The next 30 minutes or so went over the language constructs followed by a demonstration of how dynamic typing works. I got pretty lost from this point forward. The one take away I had from this was that if I ever need to do anything in Javascript moving forward, there will be a learning curve. Im interested in the upcoming release of Tiger that will introduce Dashboard widgets. These are small javascript modules do quite useful things. Looks like I will be face down in the books Glenn suggested in the near future.
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