Day two of the No Fluff Just Stuff software symposium was good but not as good as day one. Again I attended the sessions by Scott Davis. The first session was about making your web site faster. Scott showed us a very cool plugin called YSlow for another plugin called Firebug. Both of these tools can be used to analyze the content of your site. YSlow will actually grade your site and give you reasons for why the site is slow. I was really impressed with the plug in and I recommend it everyone else. Much of the criteria used by this plugin can be described in the High Performace Web Sites book.
The second session was a summary for Scott Davis’s GIS for Web Developers book. It was an interesting lecture and Scott again did an amazing job at simplifying everything…now I know the basics behind sites like google maps!
I was really looking forward to my third session which was all about JVM garbage collection. The presenter for this lecture was Brian Goetz. Brian did a good job presenting about garbage collection but although some of us seemed interested I was still drolling and anxious about Groovy and Grails. He did talk about jconsole and other utilities we can use as java developers to identify memory leaks, but this just wasn’t as fun.
Finally I decided to attend a lecture titled 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers. I dont remember anything about it, I was just tooo tired by the end of the day.
Ohh nice post nonetheless really??