QCon is coming back to San Francisco...   
Tutorials: Nov. 17 - 18, 2008 
 Conference:  Nov. 19 - 21, 2008 
This second annual San Francisco enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and project management is back! Bloggers wrote about 32of the 60 sessions at last year’s event, read this article  to see what the attendees said. There is no other event in the US with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, and architecture communities.
Some of our speakers include :  
 
• Rod Johnson , Spring Creator 
 
• Martin Fowler , Refactoring, Analysis Patterns 
 
• Kent Beck , First software Patterns, XP, xUnit 
 
• Joe Stump , Digg.com Lead Architect 
 
• Dan Farino , MySpace.com Architect 
 
• David Laribee , ALT.NET ring leader 
 
• Eric Evans , Mr. Domain Driven Design 
 
• Erik Meijer , Designed LINQ & Haskell98 languages 
 
• Gregor Hohpe , EAI Patterns Author 
 
• Steve Vinoski , Corba & Distributed System Guru 
 
• Pollyanna Pixton , Author of "Fear, Trust, and the Bottom Line" 
 
• John Musser , Programmableweb.com Founder 
  
                     
                     
                   
                  
                    
                    
                      
                        
                          
                            
    
      
        Tracks 
Architectures you've always wondered about  
Case Studies by Facebook, MySpace, Digg.com, Shutterfly, and EBay architects. 
Scaling Agility  
How to Scale Lean and Agile in huge companies with large
development orgs. 
Cloud computing  
Will the little cloud icon replace the server & database-cylinder on tomorrows system design schematics?
Being Agile  
Become an agile developer so it will become a part of you and something which lives inside you.
 
Effective design and Clean code  
How to best translate a set of abstract ideas into working and functional
software.
Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied  
Actual use of functional programming languages and actor/concurrent languages. 
 
Java Emerging Technologies  
Spring App Platform, Google Android, Mylyn, Java concurrency/multi-core, and
more. 
 
RIA in the real world: The Evolution of the Client  
Real project experiences with Silverlight, JavaFX, Flex/Air, GWT. 
 
DSLs in Practise  
This track covers a wide range of business areas and technical implementations of DSLs. 
 
Data Storage Rethinking: Document Oriented Distributed Databases  
Distributed DB, CouchDB, RDDB, HBase, BigTable and Hypertable. 
 
Domain Driven Design  
This track will take you through the foundations of DDD, and how they are applicable and actually applied in projects. 
 
Real World REST: The Web as an integration architecture  
The fight between enterprise architecture and Web architecture is over, and the Web has won out. 
 
Ruby for the Enterprise  
How the Enterprise can embrace Ruby as their development platform of choice.
Alternatives in the .NET Space: Open Source, Frameworks and Languages  
Alt.NET: the community-driven .NET development. 
 
 
 
      
      
    
  
                           
                         
                       
                     
                    
                      
                        
                       
                     
                    
                      
                        
                       
                     
                     
                      
                        
                       
                     
                     
                      
                        
                       
                     
                     
                      
                        
                       
                     
                    
                    
                    
                    
                   
                  
                    
                    
                      
                          
                            
    
      
        
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