hausparty
Just ggot back (well last night actually) from the codehaus HausParty in Amsterdam.
My first time in Amsterdam (which is a very very cool city) and first time meeting most of the HausMates. Several of us stayed in the Crown hotel just by the red light district, and about 5 minutes walk from the Haus.
We spent the Saturday coding — or rather talking about coding. James Strachan gave a talk about Groovy — his and Bob’s very cool ruby like java scripting language — which was followed by much discussion about emerging implementation details.
James and I spent some time chatting about persistence in Groovy and came up with what I think will be a killer implementation. I plan to get on with that this week - hopefully in time for GeekNight
on Wednesday.
Joe and I also paired on a dynamic mock implementation for Groovy — which turned out to be about 6 lines of code. Nice.
Although quite a bit of time was spent coding we also got out on the town — on Saturday heading off to see Boom Chicago which is an english language improv style theatre restaurant run by a bunch of americans who liked Amsterdam so much they decided to stay — very cool fun, similar to the feel of a festival fringe for those of you who know what I mean.
After a very late night partying (involving plenty of Champagne) we ended up back at the hotel at 3am, and Joe and I spent most of Sunday walking around the town at random — always one of the best ways to see a place. We managed to find a very cool cheese shop and I now have a fridge full of it.
Caught the flight back on Sunday night and now its back to the .NET grinstone for me. Maybe we should port Groovy to .NET…