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So, it has been another incredible day at 2GX. I sat in on presentations covering Spring and Groovy, Swing Mashups with Groovy and Grails, GORM(Grails Object Relational Mapping), and Groovy with the Google Maps API. Graeme Rocher, Andres Almiray and Scott Davis put together some great presentations and I have a few things I need to check out tomorrow. Again, I am overwhelmingly impressed with what the No Fluff Just Stuff crew has put together for this event. Jay Zimmerman, who runs No Fluff Just Stuff, sat down with a few of us for lunch today and rattled off the number of events(35+) they have going on this year covering everything from Ajax to Spring to Groovy and Grails. Hopefully, we (James Williams, Vladimir Vivien, and myself) can help bring an event of this caliber to the Tampa Bay area in the future.

Again, if you want to be on the edge of what is going on, you need to get out to an event like 2GX. The presenters and attendees are setting the stage for the future of software development. With the style/format of No Fluff Just Stuff, you not only listen to presentations, but interact with the presenters and your peers. I sat and absorbed information while I was thinking of how I am going to implement what I am seeing. In some cases, I was working with my current code while the topic was touching on what I was working on in my IDE. In other instances, I was up until 2am last night working with peers on what I was trying to figure out, doing some demos, and sharing some thoughts and code samples.