The day started with keynote sessions.
Technical sessions included cloud computing with Eucalyptus, managing innovative teams, graph databases, and patterns in dynamic languages. The last was the best of the sessions. The presenter showed how Ruby and Groovy have implemented some patterns (Iterator and Command) into their syntax, and how other patterns (Strategy, Decorator, and Command) can be implemented easily. The "patterns" book was written in the age of C++ but languages have advanced a lot.
A bonus in the "patterns" session was seeing what Ruby and Groovy can really do. They have capabilities that are not present in the traditional languages of C++ and Java. (Which is interesting since Groovy sits on top of Java, or at least the JVM.)
In other news, I have given away almost all of my business cards. Next time I must bring more!
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