Last week was the JAX 2008 in Wiesbaden, Germany. In a previous post I wrote about my impressions on the first. Let’s review day two and three: The first day was half exciting/half boring. On my second day I booked the Dynamic Languages Day, what a mistake. Most of the sessions were for newcomers who never heard/programmed about Groovy, Ruby, … The sessions covered syntax, Java integration, and so on, but they only scratched the surface. Most of the information can be found on the Internet. However, one useful session was “Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages”. The speaker Neal Ford was really good and gave good examples which patterns are obsolete in DL’s and how easy some can be implemented. Maybe, I will do later a more detailed post about it. Like I wrote, the rest of the sessions wasn’t to interesting, therefore, I will just skip them. My mood changed on Thursday because of some really good sessions. Continue Reading »