JAOO day I

Wow what a day, my first day at JAOO. Its been a very interesting day with a lot of interesting tracks and catch up with old collegues from Århus.

The main topic of the day has been funtional programming presented by Anders Hejlsberg in th eopening keynote, or as Erik Meijer say "Fundamentalist functional programming", what a blow of a speech he could present. He knocked the last still active brain cells of the day to an outer galaxy whith all his philosophy about the topic, and who else would start out playing "Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit" .
Beside this "out of range" track with Erik, my day started out with a track about Continues Integration, really down to the basic, but actually usefull and well presented by Chris Read. The missing link for me was the "continues deployment", why not make a daily deployment to test of todays work, just as source forge or any other place to grap "nightly builds". Do this just as a pratice to traine the team in deployment. Next up was google Chrome track, really a sales speak about the new wonder :), can't wait to heat Lars Bak about V8. Then there was Glouding computer with Gregor Hohpe, yet another great speaker, explaining how to keep low of complexisity when programing for clouding, and finally showing how to use Google's API, DB and all the other goodies for developers like me, wanting to try out clouding and "BigTable" ths google Database wonder :). Finally I had one track about PowerShell, think you need to be a sys admin to keep track with that fellow. The last track "Impact of Enterprise 2.0 ...." think I missed the last part when my eyeslid closed :) NOT well presented.
But not to forget the last, and indeed very important topic for this conference networking, implemented with a good dinner at Ridehuset by Chili John, and finialised in hotel bar, what a great evening.