Five days after my nightly arrival in beautiful Antwerpen, I drove back over those same dreary roads to Holland, to my home. Five days that have flown by. I’ve been completely submerged in mixture of Java and a little Ruby. Everything I heard about, everything I spoke about, even dreamt about, was Java. I’ve got so many new ideas, so many things I’m eager to check out or try out:

• SwingLabs
• Apache Tuscany
• Custom HTML tags in Ruby (can I get them into Rails?)
• Could Rails have a web admin console like I saw at the Phobos demo?
• Deploying a Rails app on GlassFish
• Matisse on NetBeans
• JRuby on Spring 2.0
• And last but not least find out more about the Closures in Java proposal

Many thanks go to Stephan Janssen and the rest of the JavaPolis team for organizing this superb event! I’ll be back next year.