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Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.

Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.
The 5th annual QCon San Francisco is taking place just 3 weeks from now, the chance to register is quickly approaching. Registration is double last year's at this time! We only have 50 tickets left so book early to make sure you get a spot.
Our 5th QCon San Francisco takes place on Nov 14-18, 2011. Last year QConSF sold out early, and this year we are already 100% above last year’s registrations at this time! Registration is open and all 16 track themes have been announced. Most of the conference sessions are still in development and have not been posted online yet. Save $550 by registering before July 29th.
QCon San Francisco 2011, taking place November 14-18, is now open for registration ($700 savings until June 22nd). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering architecture & design, Java, Mobile, functional programming, Lean and Kanban, Cloud Computing, Big Data & NoSQL, emerging languages, and other timely topics.

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, Advancing Agile to the Next stage with Lean, Agile in the Midlife, Architecture Case Studies, Beautiful Code, Big Data and NoSQL, Functional Web, Cross Platform Mobile Development, HTML5 & JavaScript, Systems That Never Stop and many more!
Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in.
Steve Vinoski believes that actor-oriented languages such as Erlang are better prepared for the challenges of the future: cloud, multicore, high availability and fault tolerance.
Jesper Boeg discusses why it is important to deliver software early, why it is difficult to do so, along with tools/tips/practices: shared vision, story maps, coaching, and others.

Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms.

Guillermo Rauch, creator of SocketIO talks about how it delivers HTML5 WebSocket functionality in a cross-browser fashion. He also talks about effective development with Node.js and JavaScript in general.

Aino Corry discusses various aspects of Agile Retrospectives: how to get them accepted, core principles, length, frequency, structure, techniques for handling problems, and much more.