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I just finished up two conferences here in Europe.

TSSJS Europ

At TSSJS Europe, I did a “fireside chat” on effective RESTful services. Since one can never count on Europeans being loud and obnoxioius like Americans while discussing things, I put together some slides on Dos and Don’ts of RESTful services. I enjoyed myself and felt there was some good discussion. I hope others did too.

Jazoon

I have to say I was quite impressed with Jazoon. Maybe it is because the speakers were a completely different circle than those I normally see at other conferences – but I feel like I actually learned a lot.

I also gave a talk called The Rise of AtomPub in the Enterprise. I redid my previous talk on AtomPub and I think this flows much better. I gave a short context of the history and how we ended up with AtomPub in the enterprise. Basically I see 3 forces – the move to enterprise services but SOAP/WSDL failing for many cases, the rise of REST, and move toward syndicated content. If you were there, let me know what you thought of the talk.

Scala

Can we just ditch Java and move to it already? From a Java developer’s point of view, its much less abrasive than Erlang, but still seems to have a lot of the power. On a related note, InfoQ had a good recap on the two languages.

JCR/Sling

It took me a while to come around to the JCR way of thinking, but now that I’m getting there, I’m liking JCR more and more all the time. A big thanks to David Nuescheler (spec lead for JCR, CTO for Day software) for patiently answering all my questions last week.

The Sling demo that they did to rebuild The Server Side in 15 minutes was quite impressive. I liked the way it effectively meshed web principles with JCR. They just did a 1.0 release, you should seriously check it out if you’re building a content driven website.

Dan Kulp:

Kulp Technologies is proud to announce the immediate availability of Kulp Micro Edition 2.0. This release builds on the success of the previous version to provide enhancements to the popular features:

• Ability to produce a wide variety of stinky, smelly fluids and excrement.
• A high pitched wail, expected to occur for about 4-5 hours a day, every day.
• Guaranteed to distrupt any thoughts of sleep for anyone around for the first couple months.
• Inate ability to require the use of all spare resources for the next 18 years. If you’re lucky, it will then require even MORE resources for another 4 years

Congrats Dan! The current XKCD comment is funny/relavent as well: