- The JQuery session at craft day was his favorite. Hands-on technical stuff for specific technologies is king. More academic problems cause him to lose interest quickly.
- 40-and-out is very important to him. Doesn't want to do any after-hours stuff because he works very hard while he's here, and is committed to his family.
- He was unpleasantly surprised that so few people understood the fundamentals of agile development, specifically of TDD.
- Real-world stories in a lunch & learn, not contrived. He's thinking along lines of micro-patterns for mocking portlet behavior - problems with specific technologies that we use every day.
All of these came from one person, but were worth writing down because they're a distillation of what I have heard from other people around the office. Great food for thought.
