The Spring Experience 2006 conference kicked off on Thursday night (Dec. 7th) with ~400 happy Spring developers in attendance. That evening's dinner keynote by Rod Johnson was followed by the first full day of content on Friday.

Here are a dozen or so blog posts and links I've found for the first keynote and day 1 sessions (click on the post link or "read more" to see the full content!):

infoq: Rod Johnson: 2006 the year Spring became Ubiquitous

Eamonn McManus: The Spring Experience 2006

Craig Walls: Top 10 things that I'll be doing instead of going to The Spring Experience
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Matt Raible: [TSE] Domain Driven Design with Eric Evans

Matt Raible: [TSE] Rapid Web Application Development with Rob Harrop

Matt Raible: [TSE] Using Dynamic Languages with Spring with Rod Johnson and Guillaume LaForge

Matt Raible: [TSE] Using Dynamic Languages with Spring with Rod Johnson and Guillaume LaForge

Matt Raible: [TSE] Designing Stateful Web Application Control Flow with Erwin Vervaet

Stephan Schwab: [TSE] Domain Driven Design

Stephan Schwab: [TSE] The Building Blocks of Domain Driven Design

Stephan Schwab: [TSE] The Art of Domain Modeling

WillCode4Beer: Fundamentals Downs

WillCode4Beer: Rapid Web App Dev

Willcode4Beer:  Power, power

WillCode4Beer:  BOF - LDAP