I've made many new friends, especially that raucous pirate crew that
speaks at the No Fluff Just Stuff software symposiums. I've criss-crossed the country
dozens of times, always with a laptop in hand, always tinkering away at the Tapestry
source code. Meanwhile, we've seen waves of Java hype and anti-hype, the coming
of Ruby and Rails, the growth of the Java language in ways most welcome (and some
less so), and the new breed of JVM languages such as Groovy, JRuby and Scala. In
fact, the only constants for me over the last eight years have been my wife Suzanne,
and Tapestry.
I've been feeling something building. We're in a new age of coding now, an age in
which the reach of an individual coder has been greatly extended. There's a universe
of Java code libraries waiting to be downloaded and used. Java's cross platform
capabilities mean we can develop and test on a personal computer or laptop and
then push the exact same binaries to a server for production. If you can't appreciate
how wonderful that is, you may be missing the forest for the trees. We've taken
Java's strengths for granted and focused on its weaknesses, and too many are waiting
with baited breath for The Next Big Thing.
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