So next week I'm flying over to Las Vegas to attend (for the 2nd time) The Server Side Symposium.
I'm looking forward to meet different speakers and mingle with other attendees and hopefully learn a few new Java things.
Hopefully Floyd will have a Java wall, so I can draw JavaPolis in big letters on every December month
Another mission to attend TSSS is, of course, to invite some people to speak at this year JavaPolis 2005.
I'll meet with Ted Neward who is actually the first invited speaker (already since December 2004) for JavaPolis 2005.
He's written a book on Effective Enterprise Java (where did he get his inspiration from for his book cover?) that will be an interesting talk.
Ted is also involved in the ServerSide.net and because of that he can really make a nice comparison between J2EE and .NET.
During last years TSSS he moderated a talk on J2EE and .NET and Jo Wyns and I were nicely surprised how well he knew both architectures and APIs.
Other people I want to meet are Jason Hunter (XQuery) and Jason Carreira (XWork) and John Crupi all of them have still yet to speak at JavaPolis
I'm also interested to see how far Geronimo is with their J2EE implementation; Dain Sundstrom is the man to follow.
Anybody else going from Belgium ?
If not, let me know whom I should invite
