It's settled, I'm heading to Portland. I'm going to be there from Sunday, October 22nd to Wednesday, Oct. 25th.
On the schedule, in no particular order:
I'm staying at the very funky White Eagle Hotel. I stayed at the Kennedy School a couple of weeks back when I was briefly in town for a vacation. These are a cool chain of hotels/breweries/etc. Highly recommended.
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Kennedy School rocks
Kennedy School rocks --
http://zugbot.com/what-the-fi-at-portlands-kennedy-school/
Read your post in the San Jose airport and, ironically enough, had my Kennedy School shirt on -- took a pic via isight once I got onthe plane.
Nice!
I ended up frequenting several McMenamin's establishments. We had the Social Media club at the Blue Moon. My experience at the White Eagle was equally awesome. VERY cheap, and right off the yellow line MAX.
Crazy Java conference
The conference is OOPSLA2006, which is about all things object-oriented, language related. So not just about optimization. And not just about Java either.