Ted Neward's turn.
Talking to a room of (mostly) .NETters must be kind of tough for a guy with such a
strong Java side.
It's strange, because it seems like Ted just won't choose one or the other (which,
in my opinion, is a good thing - more toys == more fun). It reminds me of Shakespeare's
song from Much Ado About Nothing:
Sigh not so, but let them go
Men were deceivers ever
One foot in sea, and one on shore
To the one thing constant never...
Anyway, he got going. There were a couple of dissenters in the audience who scoffed
when Ted asked if there were any Java developers in the room, but he quickly whipped
those two guys to death with his ponytail, so the rest of the talk went on without
such interruptions.
Now we've all been scared into loving Java, and are hoping that we get out of here
alive.
At another point in the talk, Ted forced the entire room to stand up and perform calisthenics,
which made me feel like I was on lunch break at a large Japanese corporation. Nobody
dared resist his command to rise and wiggle after seeing his handiwork in the area
of hair wielding.
This man is smart and dangerous.
Oh, and the talk was on the subject of Java and web services.
You know, I have a soft spot for Java. It's a nice language.
However, some things are just a major pain in the ass to implement with the platform.
.NET makes remoting via web services so freaking simple that it's hard to believe.
Java, on the other hand... Well. Let's just say Java web services still doesn't look
like my kind of thing.
There's the whole issue of requiring a Java app server. If this whole Java web services
thing starts with code (which I like) and ends with something like Websphere (which
I hate), then I would rather coat my eyeballs in honey and dip my face in a box full
of hungry rats.
I hate Java application servers. That just about kills my interest in Java
web services.
Ted was entertaining anyway, though.