Visit to the first Grails eXchange was a pleasure and pain. I have been on the road for almost a month and I have spoken all except three days during that time. Plus, for some reason, last week I had trouble sleeping (first time I remember having problem sleeping!). So, by the time I got to London, I must have hit the limits my body can physically take. I managed to give my two talks there, though I was quite conscious I was loosing my rhythm. In spite of all the pain, I am go glad I made it there. I had the pleasure of meeting some of the great minds (key contributers) in the Groovy and Grails space. I sat down with Kirk Pepperdine for an interview for Serverside (I will post the link to it later). I also had the privilege of meeting Geertjan Wielenga. I was mentioning to him how impressed I am in the way NetBeans has turned around for better. He said something that caught my attention: "I have been using NetBeans on a open source project I have been working on and I am happier with it now than I was several months ago." Look at what happens if a developer is also an active user of a product! Later in the evening, Geertjan ask me to sit down for a few minutes for an agile interview (it is quite agile, he wrote it as we spoke and posted it soon after). My good friend Scott finally came to my rescue and gave me some pills to swallow (I won't ask him what it was, but it worked <wink>)[Hope you are doing better Scott]. I got good rest on the flight (as much as one could get on a flight that is). I am looking forward to being at the SEC tomorrow before finally going home.