The third and last day of the conference. The first session I went to this morning was a very interesting one, “The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Scala” by Ted Neward. He explained the basics of the Scala programming language. Scala is a new and very interesting programming language that combines object oriented and [...]

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The first keynote of today was “Language-Oriented Computing: Shifting Paradigms” by Neal Ford. It was a good presentation (with nice slides), mainly about domain-specific languages. See also Martin Fowler’s page on DSLs.
At 9:10 I went to “Spring 2.5 On the Way to 3.0″ by Jürgen Höller (one of the main committers on the Spring [...]

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I am in Prague, at the TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe. It’s a conference much like other conferences about Java, but not as big (there are about 300 attendees) and with a focus on server-side Java technology (although non-Java stuff such as Adobe Flex and AIR, Groovy and JRuby also get some attention).
The first day started [...]

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