ApacheCon 2004 will start 5 weeks from today, so if you haven't registered yet, procrastination time is coming to an end.

ApacheCon is a relatively small and highly technical conference. I really like the atomsphere, the opportunity to sit down and spend time talking with people. PyCon and ApacheCon are my favorites among the tech conferences that I've actually attended. (I still haven't made it to an O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, or a SuperNova, two conferences that I think would end up high on the list if I ever make it to them. The recently concluded Web 2.0 also looks to have been above average.)

If you interested in cornering the people working on Apache projects, then ApacheCon is the place for you. Here are a few posts by people who attended last year:

• Rod Chavez's trip report
• Doug Kaye (of IT Conversations) posted a comparison of COMDEX, cdXpo, and ApacheCon
• Doc Searls liked it (he gave a great keynote)
• Scott Johnson of Feedster.com learned some stuff that helped out on Feedster

I'll be giving my XML Overview talk again this year, and looking forward to talks on Lucene, ReST, continuations in web apps, Scott Johnson's case study on Feedster, and more.