We tried a new ice-breaker for the Spring User Group meetings. It’s called “Ask Jan” — the attendees select two from a list of five topics they’d like me to talk about. Then I have some time to prepare short 5 - 10 minute talks on the selected subject.
At the SUG meeting on 12th November, the areas were:

• Performance monitoring approaches
• Top 3 Hibernate tips
• Web application security
• Five interesting applications
• And one more thing that I can’t remember any more

From this list, the attendees selected the first two items; I have prepared a talk that covers the two topics. Download.