QCon San Francisco on Nov 19-21
Van Riper
I'm forwarding this on behalf of the organizers of the QCon
conference. In particular, please note the group $100 discount
registration code and the additional $100 Amazon gift certificate
offer for referring others to attend QCon.
Cheers, Van
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As a member of Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group, we'd like
to inform you that our second annual QCon San Francisco conference is
coming up in just a few weeks (November 19-21, 2008) and we hope you
will consider attending. Last year's QCon San Francisco had over 400
registrants & 78 speakers.
We have arranged a special discount for SVGTUG members of an
additional $100 off when you use the discount code "svgtug_100off"
when you register for the conference.
But there is more...We would like to offer you the opportunity to
receive a $100 AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATE. All you need to do is bring
your friends to the conference.
Bring a friend to QCon San Francisco and in addition to you receiving
the $100 Gift Certificate, your friend will get a $100 DISCOUNT off
the price of their conference pass
Register 2 friends and both will get a $100 DISCOUNT plus a third
friend can get a FREE pass. The discount code for this additional
offer is: "infoq_100off". Upon registration, please have your friend
pick "Other" in the "Where did you hear about QCon?" field and then
have them write in your name so we can track the referral.
This year we've got over 100 speakers in 17 tracks covering the key
topics of importance in enterprise software development. Some of
QCon's speakers include:
Erik Meijer - Creator of LINQ, Serial Language Developer
Martin Fowler - Author: Analysis Patterns, Refactoring, others
Rod Johnson - Spring Creator
Robert Martin - Agile Programming expert
Kent Beck - First software Patterns, XP, xUnit
Brian Goetz - Author, Java Concurrency in Practice
Eric Evans - Mr. Domain Driven Design
Linda Rising - Patterns Almanac, Patterns Handbook
Dan Pritchett - eBay Architect
Neal Ford - Editor of "No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology"
QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads,
architects, and project managers covering Architecture & Design, Java,
.NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile methodologies and other timely topics such as
DSLs and cloud computing. Last year's QCon San Francisco was very well
received, and covered very heavily in blog space.
The track themes for QCon San Francisco & track hosts are as follows:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About - Hosted by EBay's Pritchett
Case Studies by Facebook, MySpace, Digg.com, Shutterfly, and EBay architects.
Scaling Agility - Hosted by Pollyanna Pixton
How to Scale Lean and Agile in huge companies with large development orgs.
Cloud computing - Hosted by EAI Patterns Author Gregor Hohpe
Will the little cloud icon replace the server & database-cylinder on
tomorrows system design schematics?
Being Agile - Hosted by Amr Elssamadisy
Become an agile developer so it will become a part of you and
something which lives inside you.
Effective design and Clean code - Hosted by Aino Vonge Corry
How to best translate a set of abstract ideas into working and
functional software.
Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied - Hosted by
LINQ Creator, Erik Meijer
Actual use of functional programming languages and actor/concurrent languages.
Java Emerging Technologies- Hosted by InfoQ's Chief Editor, Floyd Marinescu
Spring App Platform, Google Android, Mylyn, Java
concurrency/multi-core, and more.
RIA in the real world: The Evolution of the Client - Hosted by InfoQ
lead RIA/Java editor Scott Delap
Real project experiences with Silverlight, JavaFX, Flex/Air, GWT.
DSLs in Practise - Hosted by ThoughtWorks' Neal Ford
This track covers a wide range of business areas and technical
implementations of DSLs.
Data Storage Rethinking: Document Oriented Distributed Databases -
Hosted by Kresten Krab Thorup
Distributed DB, CouchDB, RDDB, HBase, BigTable and Hypertable.
Domain Driven Design - Hosted by Eric Evans
This track will take you through the foundations of DDD, and how they
are applicable and actually applied in projects.
Real World REST: The Web as an integration architecture - Hosted by
ThoughtWork's Jim Webber
The fight between enterprise architecture and Web architecture is
over, and the Web has won out.
Ruby for the Enterprise - Hosted by Gregg Pollack
How the Enterprise can embrace Ruby as their development platform of choice.
Alternatives in the .NET Space: Open Source, Frameworks and Languages
- Hosted by David Laribee
Alt.NET: the community-driven .NET development.
The previous QCon were well received, below are some comments from
bloggers who attended our last QCon:
Steve Vinoski - I just returned home from QCon London, and its
excellence exceeded my expectations. As usual, the quality of speakers
QCon attracts (just like JAOO) is outstanding, and they cover a very
wide variety of topics.
Ola Bini - I had a great time and I look forward to being back the
next time. I can definitely recommend QCon as one of the best
conferences around in this industry.
Nik Silver - ... every hour of the three days of the conference there
were insights and guidance that could be tucked away, and reused later
to save hours, days or weeks of time elsewhere ... No magic, no silver
bullets, but plenty of solid advice and experience.
Simon Brown - ... there were a couple of time slots where I wish I
could have split myself into two. Overall it was another great event
and I highly recommend it for anybody thinking about attending next
year.
Mark Edgington - In short fantastic. I've attended many larger
conferences and I found the smaller size more enabling for
communication, both with the speakers and conference attendees ... I
left the conference armed with lots of ideas and inspiration and a
handful of excellent contacts.
Antonio Goncalves - I only had two days at the conference and I have
to say, QCon is different from what I'm used to. The audience looked
more experienced (or older if you want) and the quality of the
presentations was really high
Dionysios G. Synodinos - The facilities were more than adequate, the
schedule was practical and worked out fine, and the quality of the
presentations was very high.
Danilo Sato - I was really impressed with the quality of the
conference, from tracks, to sessions, and speakers. QCon is one of the
best technical conferences I've participated and I recommend it for
anyone interested in enterprise software development. I'm looking
forward to attending again next year.
Registration for the 3 day conference is $1,895 until November 14!
Register now and save $200. The conference will be held at the Westin
San Francisco Market Street, like last year.
Sincerely,
The QCon team