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It was great to finally meet and talk to John 'Tug' Wilson, and Zohar Melemed about their work on groovy. James wowed the crowd as usual. I managed to take some photos

Other interesting snippets I scribbled in the pub...

• Met some chaps working on dspace.org, which is a project concerning the preservation of digital information, this stuff is fascinating to me
• One chap has had great success in a recent Java/WebServices/C++ project using gsoap and webmethods glue
• Joe again recommended SableCC to me, SableCC is a tool to create an Abstract Syntax Tree from a document parsed using a specified grammer, and it is definitely worth a look.
• Joe was also showing off streamlets, which provides the ability for your web client to send and receive messages over JMS.
• Mozilla apparently has a good Javascript debugger (Venkman), which sounds like a blessing for maintainence of the unobstrusive Javascript that peppers webapps.
• Met a couple of chaps (Philip Milne and other [sorry forgotton your name]) who are working on a subproject of Open Adaptor, called Bhavaya which provides real-time equivalent of Hibernate.

I met lots of new faces, so apologies if I don't remember everything from tonight. It was fantastic to see the buzz alive in London. Please come along next month for more drinking and networking.

Thanks to all.