Tech Life of Recht

A pretty hectic week with JAOO 2007 is over. As usual, it was a great conference with a lot of excellent speakers. I think I have only one thing to complain about, and tha’ts not really the conference’s fault: Nothing really new has happened since last year.
Sure, LINQ has come a long way, and JRuby is just about production ready, but nothing really ground-breaking. This could be seen in the many non-technical talks – not that they weren’t good, it just wasn’t very technical. However, Joe Armstrong did pull in the other direction with his very popular talk on Erlang. Old school indeed.
The conference ended for me with the JAOO crew and speakers dinner on Wednesday. Great party, although some people went home before others. I wasn’t at home until 5.30 am, so it was a little hard on me to go to work at 12. Unfortunately, I had to go give a talk about OpenUDDI for Javagruppen, so there was no staying at home. The talk went ok, though, but the evening was spent on the sofa.
For the interested, I’ve uploaded some JAOO pictures to SmugMug.