Kent Beck & Martin Fowler will be keynoting & delivering tutorials at the QCon San Francisco Nov 7-9th conference, in addition to many other great speakers:
QCon first debuted in London this past March (see bloggers show coverage) and going forward on will be an annual event in both SF and London, providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a strong focus on architecture & design, as well as other important topics for the professional software developer.
QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. The tracks at the conference include:
See also past QCon/JAOO talks available online on InfoQ:
- Philip Rosedale, Creator of Second Life
- Rod Johnson, Creator of Spring
- Dan Pritchett, eBay Architect
- Eric Evans, Domain Driven Design
- Jean-Luc Valliant, Linked-In CTO
- Jutta Eckstein, Agile in the Large
- Erik Meijer, Creator of LINQ
- Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial XP
- Joshua Bloch, Java language designer
QCon first debuted in London this past March (see bloggers show coverage) and going forward on will be an annual event in both SF and London, providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a strong focus on architecture & design, as well as other important topics for the professional software developer.
QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. The tracks at the conference include:
- Architectures Case studies - The architectures of Linked-In, Yahoo!, eBay, Second Life, and Orbitz - right from the source.
- Agility on the Edge - Lessons learned from extreme/advanced applications of Agile.
- Architecture Quality - How to achieve sustainable quality (reliability, maintainability, scalability, manageability).
- Bleeding Edge .NET - REST with WCF, XML & LINQ in VB9, EDM & eSQL, Acropolis.
- SOA & the Web: How much REST do we need? - We will explore the architectural differences between the two, highlight their respective benefits, and help you decide when to apply them.
- Emerging Client Technologies - Silverlight vs. JavaFX vs. Adobe Flex/AIR vs. Google's Ajax RIA stack.
- Five Things I Wish I Learned In College - Languages & techniques being researched today that may change development 20 years from now.
- Java Emerging technologies - JRuby, Grails, Server-side OSGi, DSL development, Batch Processing.
- The Rise of Ruby - learn how to best take advantage of what Ruby has to offer.
- Java in action - Concurrency, Spring Configuration, AOP in the Enterprise, TestNG, Future of Java.
- Practical Security for Application Developers - static analysis, thread modelling, web 2.0, enterprise security api, web services security.
See also past QCon/JAOO talks available online on InfoQ:
- Martin Fowler on Domain Specific Languages
- Operational Manageability by Dan Pritchett, eBay
- DSLs in Ruby with Obie Fernandez
- Jeff Sutherland on the origins of Scrum
- Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?
- Ivar Jacobson on UML, AOP, Methodologies
- Panel: Who will develop Software in 10 years?
- WPF: The future of Windows
- Event Patterns
Registration for the 3 day conference is $ is $1795 US until end of September, a $400 savings, and $1895 until Nov 4th. The conference will be held at the new Westin San Francisco Market Street. Join us in this first annual event in San Francisco!