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For the second year in a row at the Chicago No Fluff Just Stuff conference, I was blown away by Neal Ford. An application architect and "meme wrangler" for ThoughtWorks, Ford is a conference-circuit regular with a conversational speaking style lots of smart stuff to share. About half of his talks this weekend in Itasca tackled such technical topics as service-oriented architecture, domain-specific languages and Ruby/Groovy/jRuby. The other half addressed more general developer concerns: strategies for improving your code and, more importantly, your productivity