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Presentation: Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages
Rich Kilmer gives an introduction to the art of creating Domain Specific Languages in Ruby. The presentation gives a basic introduction, but moves on to useful distinctions in DSL styles, such as implicit vs. explicit internal DSLs or declarative vs. imperative DSLs. A look at a long list of real world DSLs Rich has created rounds of the presentation.
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QCon Panel: What will the Future of Java Development Be?
In this panel from QCon San Francisco, Joshua Bloch, Chet Haase, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer and Charles Nutter discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.
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Presentation: Anne Thomas Manes on the Business Value of SOA
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.
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QCon London March 12-14 Update: Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!
QCon's second annual conference in London, UK is taking place in just 8 weeks, March 12-14. In the last month, a number of important additions have been made to the conf: XP founder Kent Beck, author Martin Fowler, sessions from Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Salesforce.com, MySpace.com, eBay, Merrill, Betfair, Credit Suisse, and others. Gang of Four Patterns author Erich Gamma is also presenting.
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Presentation: Linda DeMichiel on EJB 3 & JPA
In this talk from last year's QCon London, Linda DeMichiel, who has been leading the EJB spec since the 1.0 days, presents EJB3 with a focus on JPA. The talk covers key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3.0 apps, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, etc.
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QCon London March 12-14 Announced
QCon London 2008, taking place March 12-14 has been launched and is open for registration. QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering the range of topics also on InfoQ as well as a strong focus on architecture & design, real world case studies, and more. This is the 3rd QCon, don't miss it!
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Article: Key Takeaways and lessons learned from QCon SF
Bloggers were quite active at InfoQ's QCon San Francisco conference which took place Nov 7-9. Bloggers wrote about 32 of the 60 sessions at the event, including the keynotes, session on Linked-In, eBay, Orbitz architectures, and more. Read this article to learn the most valuable insights the attendees took the time to blog about, as well as many other aspects about QCon.
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InfoQ Interview: Jeff Sutherland on "Who's Doing Scrum"
There are over 10,000 Scrum Masters trained, that's a lot of Scrum! Well: Scrum, variants of Scrum, and Scrum-like processes. Are these distinctions important? Jeff Sutherland told us why he thinks it's important to understand a team's level of adoption - not to label it but to continue improvement. He cited the example of organically growing a Scrum team practice-by-practice at Google AdWords.
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Presentation: Operational Manageability lessons learned from eBay
You're confident that your software will handle horizontal scale to thousands of servers. But how about your operational team? Have you also architected for managing that large collection of servers? Dan Pritchett will present lessons learned at eBay and lead a discussion on how to ensure your transactional scalability doesn't ignore your architecture's manageability.
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Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Speaking at QCon SF Nov 7-9
Kent Beck & Martin Fowler will be keynoting & delivering tutorials at the QCon San Francisco Nov 7-9th conference. Also, the schedule has been finalized with a new complete track covering security from a development perspective, and also a panel on the future of Java development including Joshua Bloch, JRuby's Charles Nutter, Spring's Rod Johnson, and .NET's Erik Meijer.
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Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, Yahoo! architectures to be presented @ QCon SF
The 'architectures you've always wondered about' track at QCon San Francisco this year will be featuring the architectures of Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, & Yahoo!, presented directly from key architects at those companies. QCon itself also has a number of other tracks on architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, Agile, research technologies, and more.
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QCon San Francisco (Nov 7-9) Schedule & Speakers Posted
The schedule and 44 speakers (another 20 to be confirmed soon) has been posted for QCon, InfoQ's new enterprise software development conference coming to San Francisco Nov 7-9. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler; Rod Johnson (Spring Creator); the architects of Second Life, Orbitz, Yahoo! & Linked-In; Erik Meijer (LINQ Creator); and many more!
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon
In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.
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Ruby Domain Specific Languages Buzz
Last week the Ruby community received a good amount of material related to domain specific languages