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Started off day 2 with Test Driven Design with Neal Ford. It was a great session and I left feeling guilty about some of the code I have written in the past. Seriously. TDD can help you design and write better code and he proved it. Then I wandered over to Jeff Brown’s session, Enterprise Web Applications with Grails. It was a pretty good overview of what Grails has to offer. I am pretty familiar with Grails, but I did pick up on a few new things that I have never used or even seen before. REST is a pretty popular topic and Ken Sipe’s session, Spring 3 into REST, went into pretty good detail on how to get things done with Spring, specifically Spring MVC. Then I visited Jeff Brown again to check out his session, Polyglot Web Programming with Grails. The expandability of Grails as a platform is pretty amazing. I will probably have to put together another post on the topic, but first I need to look into Clojure a bit. Ended the day with a BOF session on alternative languages on the JVM. It is great to sit around and talk shop with the presenters of NFJS. Day 3 is around the corner.

Tags: NFJS, Software Development, Tampa

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