Mustard Mania & SpringOne Prelude

Just a short interruption between conferences (tomorrow I’ll travel to Amsterdam to participate in SpringOne Europe with our friends from SpringSource – I’m already looking forward to SpringOne, which has been a very cool event in former years). 

But back to the intermission – if you love mustard with flesh and sausages I just wanted to recommend “Honig-Dill-Senf” from Wolfram Berge (honey dill mustard). Not the cheapest mustard but definitely the best I’ve ever eaten. I have been addicted since I first tried it.

JAX 2009: Practical Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy

(Disclaimer: this text was written while listening to the presentation – please be forgiving with errors that might result from both listening and writing)

Guillaume Laforge is my next stop in the JAX presentation route. He talks about “Practical Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy”. I’m a huge fan and supporter of DSLs believing them to be the next big thing in truly enhancing developer productivity. Since I also believe that we are just scratching on the surface of what we can achieve with DSLs I was curious about what Guillaume would have to show, especially since Groovy seems to be a pretty natural fit for many types of DSLs.

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Preparing for JAX 2009

This afternoon we are heading of to JAX 2009, the first of two big yearly Java conferences in Germany.

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