A couple of weeks ago I was approached by Ahmed Hashim of the Egyptian Java Users Group to present on Spring while I was there for a client engagement. It seems JUGs are everywhere, even where you don’t expect them.

As I like to inspire people with interesting talks (at least, I hope they’re interesting) on software engineering and design best practices, I gladly accepted the invitation and used my ‘Enterprise Java Development with the Spring Triangle’ talk to try to entertain the audience. Fortunately that worked quite well as I noticed aftewards from the evals.

But that’s not what I’m writing about. I wanted to shortly highlight Ahmed Hashim’s achievements (and those of his team). On really short notice, he managed to arrange a meeting space and managed to get over 100 people to attend the meeting.

Ahmed, I had fun!