[ANN] QCon Conference 2008
Peter Pilgrim
This is announcement for the second annual QCon London. I dont know if
you remember,
but last year members of user groups were offered a discount and the
good folks of QCon offering it again.
The event QCon London, taking place on March 12-14 at Queen Elizabeth
II Centre again and they have offered us an additional £50 off as a
user group member. Talk to your line manager about attending the only
big London conference! There is a ton of talks based on enterprise
software development for team leads, architects, and project managers
covering Architecture & Design, Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile
methodologies etc. Last year's QCon London had almost 500 registrants,
and was covered very heavily in blog space.
The registration cost for the 3 day conference is £1180, but you can
save £50 with the use of discount code "user_group_50".
Surf over to http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/ for details
Some of QCon's speakers include:
* Erich Gamma - GoF Design Patterns Co-author
* Martin Fowler - Author: Analysis Patterns, Refactoring, others
* Neal Gafter - Java Language Architect, Generics
* Randy Shoup - eBay Architect
* Gregor Hophe - Author, Enterprise Integration Patterns
* Brian Goetz - Author, Java Concurrency in Practice
* Linda Rising - Patterns Almanac, Patterns Handbook
* Neal Ford - DSLs, author: Art of Java Web Development
* Kevlin Henney - Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture
The track themes for QCon London & track hosts are as follows:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About - Hosted by Redmonk's James Governor
The last 2 QCon's featured: Amazon, Linked-In, Yahoo!, eBay, Second
Life, and Orbitz architecture case studies
Domain Specific Languages in Practice - Hosted by ThoughtWorks' Neal Ford
Takes DSLs to the next level by practical applications and tools that
are useful today.
Effective Design
Translate a set of abstract ideas into working and functional software
in an effective way.
Architectures in Agile - Hosted by POSA author Kevlin Henney
How to integrate the trade-offs related to aspects such as
performance, security, scalability and modifiability into an agile
process
Banking: Complex high volume/low latency architectures - Hosted by
John Davies & Alexis Richardson
The latest innovations as well as time-proven best practices that
architects of banking & finance systems need to know.
The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform - Hosted by EAI Patterns
Author Gregor Hohpe
Is the internet becoming the computer?
Implementing Scrum and XP- Hosted by Patterns Almanac author Linda Rising
Leading practitioners will present and explain how Scrum and XP are
implemented in the most effective way.
Java Emerging Technologies - Hosted by Java Concurrency Author/spec
lead Brian Goetz
The previous QCon covered: JRuby, Grails, Server-side OSGi, DSL
development, Batch Processing
.NET in the Enterprise - Hosted by Matt Deacon
.NET has brought Microsoft's platforms into many business-critical
applications, back-office, and server-side solutions.
Programming Languages of Tomorrow
Erlang, F#,, Intentional and Scala. How can we best leverage them in
our next software project?
SOA, REST and the Web - Hosted by InfoQ's Lead SOA Editor Stefan Tilkov
REST & SOA, Internet Scale Integration, REST & WS Myths
Browser & Emerging Rich Client Technologies - Hosted by InfoQ lead
RIA/Java editor Scott Delap
Silverlight vs. JavaFX/Consumer JRE vs. Adobe Flex/AIR vs. Google's
Ajax RIA stack
The Rise of Ruby
Learn how to best take advantage of what Ruby has to offer
--
Peter A. Pilgrim
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