I spent yesterday listening to talks from “Uncle Bob” Bob Martin, Jay Freeman, Jason Shah, and Chris Grove.   All the talks were very informative, with only one or two notable exceptions which were lacking in actual content.

Bob Martin spoke about dynamic languages and some of the history of typed vs. non-typed languages and the benefits of each.   Jay Freeman spoke about the politics involved in app store development, as well as fielded questions on some of the very impressive work he has done for the jailbroken phone community.   Jason spoke about how to integrate multimedia development on the Android platform, and Chris Grove spoke to us about strategies for cross-platform development.

All the information was incredibly useful, and well worth the $40 price of admission.   The “Tech in the Middle” organizers did a really great job at setting this whole thing up and I would definitely attend any future conferences they may setup as well.