So another year of TSS under my belt. Over all it was cool, I got to spend a good bit of time hanging out with friends and eating great food. I only ended up at 4 or 5 sessions though, there was lots of interesting stuff going on outside the sessions so I ended up in just a few.

I went to two of them that were awful, I won't mention names cause I don't want to be rude. If I wanted the slides read, i'd read them myself instead of listening to someone else read them...

I went to Linda DeMichael and Mike Kieth's talk about EJB 3.0. It was well attended and well done. The basic thrust of the talk was how much simpler it was to build EJB's in 3.0. And man is it. If you've not had a chance to play with EJB 3.0 yet you really should.

I went part of Dion Almaer and Alex Gehtland. Both of these guys have spent a bunch of time in front of people and you can tell, I'm not that much of an AJAX head but I went here to escape the boredom of having someone read me their slides. It was worth coming to even if I'm not that interetsed in the content.

I went to Raible's talk on web frameworks. Good content and he bought some beer (along with other sponsors) which seemd to go over well for a Friday night session.

Genenders talk was great, esp the video. Essentially JBoss = Pack Man, Geronimo = big blue ghost, the gost wins in the end. Very funny... The Geronimo content was good to. Lots of cool stuff can be done with the console. The fact that it will download DB drivers for you is really cool. He wen't through installing Roller via the console and had it running in 5 minutes or less. That was cool.

Anyway over all a good show.