I recently got back from the No Fluff Just Stuff or the Twin Cities Software Symposium. I really learned a lot. The topics were pretty good. Web Frameworks and persistence Frameworks were big. Tapestray, Spring, Hibernate and AOP. Has anyone else gone to one of these? My company is too cheap to send me to JavaOne. Most of the presenters were authors and were quite knowledgable. They also freely spoke of the products limitations. Bruce Tate was a great presenter. I like his honest approach.