Developer Day in Boulder

Yesterday Jake and I enjoyed attending Developer Day at the TechStars facility in downtown Boulder.

Highlights included meeting Chad Fowler, author of one of my new favorite books The Passionate Programmer. It turns out Chad and I are, literally, neighbors. His house in Longmont is just a few blocks away from my own.

Another interesting moment was hearing Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java, express his belief that “Java is likely going to become a legacy language.” Also a bit surprising to me (though I’m sure it’s old news) was his deep love of Python — a language free from the design constraints of backward compatibility that have plagued C++ and Java. Yet another reason that Python’s next on my list of “languages to learn”.