EclipseCon - day 4 (last day)
Today was a mixed bag. I missed Tod Nielsen’d keynote (Borland’s CEO) and started with the TPTP session. Not what I had planned, but it worked out okay. TPTP is something I’ve been looking into and I find it quite interesting. I was avoiding going to those sessions, because I knew I would have to add yet one more thing to my list of “things I really need to spend some time looking into”. Sure enough, it happened.
Then I did go a talk on how to use and extend WTP, or more specifically, a subset of the Web Tools Project, the J2EE Standard Tools (JST). It was not very interesting. The actual material seemed interesting, and it probably is, but the person speaking could put to sleep any ADHD person on a strict caffeine diet.
I attented some short talks (9 minutes each) on all sorts of different Eclipse related topics. Not so bad, very focused.
Then I closed with the 3 folks who wrote RadRails. Impressive kids. I wonder if the WTP guy could put them to sleep.
Overall for the 4 days, I’d give EclipseCon ‘06 a 4/5 stars. If I had my own company, I would hope that my developers would want to go to these kinds of conferences. They’re great for regenerating brain cells.
