Ditto. I really didn't expect much from Venkat's session, but it was definitely the best. He passes on best practices and practical experience and is very entertaining. He also includes his slides in PDF and examples on his website (Building Web Services with Axis) for connecting a .NET C# client to an Axis (java) web service for those needing Microsoft interoperability:

http://www.agiledeveloper.com/download.aspx

At 04:23 PM 7/30/2004 Friday, you wrote:
I thought that Venkat Subramaniam was the best speaker I saw. He was very funny and entertaining, he knew his stuff cold, and his presentations were polished.

I went to his Web Services presentation. It was a great intro and also gave a lot of "meat" which was still understandable to a newbie such as myself. He also kindly answered some detailed questions I had on web services via personal email after the conference.

His "Prudent OO Development" was also an excellent, low-tech discussion of the key aspects of good OO design. I think any OO developer at any skill level would benefit from his talk. If you don't know and follow these practices (when it is prudent), then you should definitely make a goal to learn and start applying them:

* DRY
* Composition vs. Inheritance
* SRP
* OCP
* LSP
* DIP
* ISP

Saying Venkat was the best is a big statement, because all of the other speakers were excellent too. I learned a ton of "stuff".

I would highly recommend NFJS to any java developer.

-- Chad

Warner Onstine wrote:

For the rest of you that were there, what were your thoughts/favorite presos (as of course I didn't make it to all)?

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