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Latest featured content about QCon San Francisco 2008

- Topics
- Agile in the Enterprise,
- Adopting Agile,
- Agile
We have found a stark and forbidding truth: an Agile team in a non-Agile enterprise will not long survive.
What does it take to align an organization to Agile and Lean principles and practices? What are the dimensions of the problem? What are some of the approaches and practices that have been demonstrated to work? What are some of the patterns of how things can go horribly, horribly wrong?
News about QCon San Francisco 2008
- Topics
- Programming,
- Architecture
This interview with Paul Hudak, recorded at QCon San Franscisco 2008, begins with a discussion of when to introduce difficult Haskell concepts like monads; moves to a discussion of the philosophy of higher order programming, the success and influence of Haskell, its use in the mainstream, and concludes with the idea of teaching computer music and Haskell simultaneously.
- Topics
- Team Collaboration,
- Agile,
- Teamwork
Knowing how to get things done with others over whom you have no control may be your greatest lever for career success. Learn key strategies and agile team applications from 20 years of field studies on getting things with others. Apply the Responsibility Redefined™ framework to orient, work in, build, lead, and maintain teams, partnerships, and collaborations of any kind.
- Topics
- Web Servers,
- Web Services,
- REST,
- SOA
HTTP is one of the most successful protocols in the world, and more and more developers are using it to do more than drive HTML UIs. In this presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco 2008, HTTPbis WG chair Mark Nottingham gives an update on the current status of the HTTP protocol in the wild, and the ongoing work to clarify the HTTP specification.
Articles about QCon San Francisco 2008

- Topics
- Ruby,
- Events,
- SOA,
- Java,
- Agile,
- .NET,
- Architecture
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, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!
Presentations about QCon San Francisco 2008

- Topics
- .NET,
- Design,
- Methodologies,
- Architecture
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.

- Topics
- Rich Client / Desktop,
- Rich Internet Apps,
- Architecture
Stephan Janssen’s presentation is organized around Parleys.com, a web site whose front end is implemented in Flash. He explains why they dumped DHTML and switched to Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
Interviews about QCon San Francisco 2008

- Topics
- Agile,
- Architecture,
- Domain-Driven Design
At QCon San Francisco, 2008, Eric Evans answers questions about his recent activities and the evolution of DDD. During the interview he responds to questions about the relationship of DDD to usability, to FIT and FITnesse type testing, technology tools, and domain-specific languages. He also speaks about the DDD community as a whole.

- Topics
- Architecture,
- Semantic Web,
- SOA
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Stu Charlton discusses what the Semantic Web is, RDFa, large-scale adoption of Semantic Web, the SPARQL query language, implementing Semantic Web capabilities in an application, triple stores, and performing a Semantic Web query.