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I have been doing some proof of concept work and some small demos using the following technologies: Java, Groovy, Grails (Hibernate and Spring under the covers), GWT, Flex, and MySQL. Some of the technologies listed are technologies I have been using for quite some time and some of them are brand new to me. I can honestly say that I am continually impressed and motivated while working with these technologies. My level of satisfaction with these technologies is not based on the cool factor or the cutting edge factor, but my satisfaction is based on the pure fact that I am getting quality work done. It is as simple as that. I know that in the future I will be digging into technologies like Ruby, Rails, Scala, and Python in more detail, but for now I can be certain that I will be less interested in the wow factor and more interested in producing quality results faster.