I’m headed to SpringOne 2GX tomorrow with a colleague of mine. I’m super pumped about it. I hope to get to meet some of the people who have helped me in my Spring/Groovy/Grails journey over the years via forums, blogs, and twitter by responding to my questions or opinions. It’ll be nice to meet, in person, Dave Klein, Andres Almiray, Graeme Rocher, and Jeff Scott Brown… just to name a few.

I spent hours looking over the session slides and, as is normal for any NFJS related conference, there are too many great sessions to go to them all. I am still up in the air on a few of the time slots because I just can’t decide yet. I am waiting to see if I want to follow a few threads deeply or just get the shallow details and move on to something else. I am really interested in Groovy and Grails tooling so I will definitely be hitting some sessions on STS. I also want to learn something about Roo… I’m just not sure whether I’ll make it all the way to the ‘advanced Roo’ session. Basically, I’ll be all over the board as far as session topics so I can’t really say there’s a theme for me.

I’ll add some postings to the blog in case anyone is interested in my opinions on the topics/sessions I attended.

I’ve always loved playing the guitar. I’ve always loved tapping my hands and feet to drum beats (People always have to get on me for beating the table or desk or my feet while in meetings). I’m a decent rythm guitarist, but can’t play the drums worth a lick. This guy (Andy Mckee) does it all – with a single guitar. Truly amazing.

My previous site design was a white background with a white and blue theme. Of the 4 or 5 people I had check out the logo, they all liked it, but didn’t think the MW jumped out at you. It was as plain as day to me, but I made it. I still like it better than the current one, but if people think I’m ike itters and have some wierd code-ish looking symbol then thats not really going to work.

I actually own the JavaDotCom.com domain name. I bought it thinking it would be a clever name for a domain. After I bought it I thought about using it as my ‘home’ instead of mikewitters.com. I guess you can call me a chicken, but I decided it might cause me pain. I did some research on some domain name disputes and it is clear to me that the courts are on the side of business… especially when its BIG business. I figured with my luck I’d do something insanely intelligent (Luck I tell you) and people would flock to the site, only to have Sun Microsystems take it all away in court for using javadotcom.com. So even though I was operating a java dotcom (i.e. my own future company which would be based on java technologies) the courts would hammer me for infringing upon their trademarked name. So its mikewitters.com. Who the heck is going to sue me for that?

There is that dang Nascar Driver…..