In which I register for a conference

I'm going to be at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Philly this year. I love these things. If you're at all interested in Java technology and have $600 and a free weekend, check one out when they come by. I always learn lots of cool stuff that I'd otherwise be too lazy to figure out for myself.

My seminars of choice for this year:

• Creating Polished Swing Applications
• Making the Most of XML
• Assimilating the HiveMind (don't ask)
  
• Advanced Version Control with CVS
• Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep (again, don't ask)
  
• Spring Overview
• Effective Enterprise Java: Security
• Designing and Developing Pluggable Application Architectures
• Software Metrics and the Great Pyramid of Giza
• Case Study: Persistence Techniques in Java
• A Pragmatic Look at Agile Architecture

It'll be great. You tend to gravitate towards the seminars that are currently interesting professionally, so since I'm now a web developer at large rather than a web developer by trade, I can safely ignore the J2EE seminars now.