Right now i’m in Frankfurt / Main, attending the iX Workshop Web Programming with Grails (Link in German).
The speaker, Dierk König, encouraged live blogging, so here we are:
Some ActiveRecord bashing and many, many windows machines around. People fiddling around with their Java Paths, IntelliJ IDEA, which should be way better and more impressive than Eclipse or my nifty little TextMate… In the meantime, everything works fine on a real OS (that is everything else than Windows, for that matter…)
I’m already bored and expecting something more to happen. Everything said in the last 3 hours or so has been written down somewhere on the Internet.
As i don’t want to bore anybody else, i’ll guess i have look at my feedreader.
Hey, the beat goes on, configuring some weird IDE has stopped…
Would anybody really read my live blogging? If a tree falls in a forest…
JEHOVA! He said G-String 
So again, how are strings called in the Groovy JDK? G Strings?
Hm, breaks are wonderful… Too much to eat, too much coffee…
The guy next to me didn’t manage to get the command line version working neither any IDE… Help is not wished.
At least, there’s a recent issue of german magazin in the conference file… With the title story about Ruby on Rails, hrr, hrr 
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Sometimes i think the IT world needs more egomaniac, rockstar-like developers like Heinemeier Hansson
Why on earth does one guy write the code from the beamer down on a sheet of paper while he’s checking his emails at the same time?? Sometimes the outer world seems like a strange place to me. Strange and weird.
Funny thing: Received a 1&1 spam mail about some profiseller foobar this morning. There are two guys from 1&1 at the opposite desk… Well, i’m too good educated…
Is it a good idea to but lawyers and webprogrammers into the same hotel?
“Divs are good for updating thingies on the page”
I guess its obvious that english isn’t my native language (can’t get the thought out of my head that tante is mocking me…), but language and spoken words always creates a frame for thoughts and far to often, a cage… And for that being said, one should pay more attention on how to paraphrase things.
I really hate it if the speakers machine is not prepared well. I really do enjoy giving little demonstrations but i’m fastidious to paranoid that everything is taken care of, tested and proved to be working… If their only 8 hours time, not working improvisation sucks.
I have to say, i really do like Groovy, it’s a chance to get some serious scripting into Java at home… err i wanted to say, at work. People tend to focus on just one language and limiting themselves, but with Groovy i can argue: It’s Java with some fancy things on top. And at least for me, it’s a good thing.
“Mit diesen Dingen kann man beliebig fancy werden” — Argh, my head schmerzts…
I should collect some pudding for the gay bar to see if this guy is really as witty as he writes. Would pudding suffer to pay you or do want some Hägen Dasz?
Party is over… Good night & good fight