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- Agile
- Topics
- Adopting Agile
A retrospective on Google's first Scrum implementation. Jeff Sutherland visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed projects. Their strategy for inserting Scrum step by step into the Google engineering teams showed great insight and provides helpful lessons learned for all Agile teams.
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By Jeff Sutherland
on Jul 03, 2008,
News about QCon
- Java
- Topics
- Compilers,
- Web Frameworks
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears. Topics discussed include an overview of GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT applications, integrating GWT and Google Gears, the architecture of a Google Gears application, Google Gears features and the Google Gears API.
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By Ryan Slobojan
on Jul 02, 2008,
- SOA
- Topics
- WS Standards,
- Transactions Processing,
- Web Services
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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By Stefan Tilkov
on Jun 24, 2008,
Articles about QCon

- Agile,
- Java,
- Architecture,
- .NET,
- Ruby,
- SOA
- Topics
- Events
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform, SOA, REST and the Web, Evolving Java, Banking, Agile in Practice, Programming Languages of Tomorrow, Effective Design, .NET, The Rise of Ruby.
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By Ryan Slobojan
on Apr 09, 2008,

- Agile,
- Java,
- Architecture,
- .NET,
- Ruby,
- SOA
- Topics
- Events
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, Architecture Quality, How much REST do we need?, Java in Action, Architecting for Performance & Scalability, Java Emerging Technologies, Challenges in Agile, Bleeding Edge .NET, The Rise of Ruby.
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By Ryan Slobojan
on Nov 27, 2007,
Interviews about QCon

- SOA
- Topics
- WS Standards,
- Transactions Processing,
- Web Services
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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By Mark Little
on Jun 24, 2008,

- Architecture,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Runtimes,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Ruby on Rails
In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons for MagLev, the merits of GemStone's persistence and distribution features, and the future with multiple Ruby implementations.
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By Avi Bryant
on Jun 13, 2008,
Presentations about QCon

- Java
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code, failures and retrying, the Spring Batch Domain Reference Model and execution environment, and the Spring Batch future roadmap.
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By Wayne Lund
on Jul 02, 2008,

- Ruby
- Topics
- Ruby on Rails,
- Security
In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: the OpenID system (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).
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By Justin Gehtland
on Jun 28, 2008,