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20050418 Monday April 18, 2005

At the MySQL Conference in San Jose I arrived in San Jose at 10:00 this morning to give a 3-hour tutorial on developing test-driven webapps with Spring and Hibernate [download PDF]. This was just a fancy name for developing webapps with AppFuse, but the session seemed to go over pretty well nevertheless. In the first half of the class, there were a couple of sleepers, but I cranked down the A/C for the second half and everyone stayed awake (although some were shivering). I never thought I could ramble on for 3-hours, but it wasn't that hard. I did end up doing mini-presentations on Spring and Comparing Web Frameworks, but all in all, I think it went pretty well. Very few people in the room had heard of any of the Java web frameworks, and only 6 were familiar with Spring and Hibernate. It was a tough crowd, but AppGen's code generation (hopefully) showed it's easy to create CRUD-based webapps with AppFuse. Note to self: make a video of that.

I have a free pass to the MySQL Conference, but I doubt I'll attend many sessions. I have a lot on my plate for AppFuse 1.8, Acegi integration into Roller, and some updates for Spring Live. It should be a good week, hopefully I'll get a lot done. This weekend should be awesome - Julie shows up on Friday for our 5-year anniversary party.

The best part of the conference so far? Talking shop over beers with the locals (crew from c|net and AppFuse user Phil Hershkowitz). Posted in Java at Apr 18 2005, 09:34:01 PM MDT 1 Comment

Comments:

Hey, I enjoyed the Guinness and shop-talk too--thanks Phil! PhotoStructure was the project I've been using as an excuse to learn more about this stuff. Think opensource iPhoto over a web UI. That scales. And does dupe detection. And suggests metadata for you. Anyway, good luck on the Wednesday guru-session, Matt, and hope to catch up with you again on Thursday to hear out Gavin.

Posted by Matthew McEachen on April 19, 2005 at 12:22 AM MDT #

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