The Web Semantic

I’ve recently returned from the Øredev developer’s conference in Malmo, Sweden where I had the privilege of  sharing knowledge with a very eclectic group of technologists . In addition to existing trends such as language agnosticism on the JVM, Agile, and mobile proliferation I noticed 3 emerging trends that stood out. Some of the concepts will be familiar to you and while they are not drastic departures from the past, they are significant and becoming more prominent and recognizable as we near the end of 2009.

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Yesterday the speakers were invited to dinner at Malmo’s city hall.  Ever since accepting the invitation Øredev has been a succession of surpased expectations.  Underneath the reserved, dare I say standoff-ish Scandinavian persona is a deep and sincere hospitality.  And perhaps the conference organizer’s plans are working, because I feel highly motivated to give the best talk I’ve ever given.

I had several happy conversations.  Among them, a respected luminary shares my dislike of Grails and it’s over the top complexity.  He will go unmentioned, but I’m not afraid to go on record…if you must learn of Hybernate, XML, Spring, and Java (as is the case in my experience) to create a grails app, something is wrong.  I also had a good talk with Nitin Bharti of DZone, who will be conducting interviews with Oredev speakers.