Sorry I did not make it to the keynote yesterday, instead I had an interview with the fine folks at Enerjy. They are doing some cool stuff with regards to process that will be good for managers. Also the code analyzer has gotten much better since last year.

I also spent some time in the Parasoft Booth. Funiest thing there was that the CEO (Adam Kolawa) claims to have invented unit testing in one of thier marketing fluffies. I'll have to let Kent Beck know about that :-). I also spent some time in the Agitar booth. Man that is cool stuff! While you are on their site make sure to check out the Open Quality stuff, its amazing the reports you can get on the health of your code.

The rest of the day I spent doing some Eclipse DJ stuff. I got to interview Mike M again from the Eclipse Foundation about the 3.1 release. I asked him to swim across the atlantic on the 1M'th download but he was not buying :-) I also got to go to a luncheon at the W with the Eclipse Foundation and some of its sponsors. Very nice place, the content of the meeting was dissapointing to me. I expected it to be a partner board (people extending the platform) talking about the cool stuf they are going to do to make Eclipse do more stuff. Ah well can't have everything, the food was fantastic!

I had a great time in the Apache booth. Lots of the MyFaces people were there, that was great fun to meet so many of them face to face.

The coolest thing I've seen so far is the ICESoft Faces components that do AJAX. I've just finished downloading and I'll be trying them out with MyFaces. I'll be posting about my progress shortly.

The energy level is up this year too. I've seen lots of excited people again. Instead of looking for jobs people are keen on talking about thier jobs. Good sign :-)

Overall a good 2nd day.