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I’m in Oslo this week for Javazone 2007. And while I missed the 8 AM heavy metal band suspending themselves unfortunately, it still has managed to be quite a good conference. Partly because I get to see lots of my European friends whom I may not see that often.

Oslo is a beautiful city. (With a disproportionate amount of beautiful women too!) Its very clean and friendly. Really the only bad thing I have to say about Oslo is that it is insanely expensive. Our cab ride last night which took us a .5 mile cost about $100 ($20 basically from the moment we stepped in the door)!!! And beers are about $10! Its nuts.

I gave an updated version of my Building Scalable, Reliable, and Secure RESTful services talk yesterday. I think it went pretty well - I got a fair amount of good feedback at least. It was the first time I thought I might have actually explained REST coherently to people.  (Have you ever tried explaining REST to someone who knows nothing about it?

I attended Ryan Heaton’s presentation on Enunciate today. He’s written some really cool stuff to package up and maintain web services. In particular I love the ability to document your services really easily and have it presented via a pretty UI to the user. You should check it out if you haven’t already.

For now, I’m headed off to the Spring/OSGi presentation shortly so I can pretend I understand OSGi when I talk to people.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 7:24 am and is filed under Javercising.