The copasetic virtues of easyb have made there way to New Zealand and will be discussed during the Java Emerging Technologies Conference 2008 in Auckland on September 17th. My friend and über Java technologist, John Ferguson Smart will be chewing the fat over easyb and as he states:

The talk will be very practical…There will also be some live demos just to prove that it really is as easy as it looks!

Needless to say, man, having John, who also happens to have authored the veritable bible of all things related to high speed Java development (also known as Oreilly’s Java Power Tools), talk about easyb is great news! In fact, if you didn’t already see it, John also blogged about easyb in which he aptly pointed out that BDD enables you to think

about what your class “should” do– in other words, you are thinking specifications. The difference is subtle, but this turns out to be a much more intuitive way of driving development than thinking in terms of raw tests. Rather than saying “what do I test”, you are saying “what should my class actually do”, or “how should my class behave”. Which is very much the spirit behind TDD.

Well said, baby! If you are hip enough to be located anywhere near New Zealand, you should definitely plan on attending JET and while you are at it, join the party baby and check out easyb.