QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched

Posted by Floyd Marinescu on Jun 11, 2008 01:08 PM

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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 has been launched!  QCon is InfoQ's conference for team leads, architects and project management covering the most important changes and innovations in enterprise software development (both technology and techniques).  The conference tracks have been announced and initial speakers published. Registration is open with special early bird discounts of $600 until June 13th. Some of our speakers this year include:

• Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns
• Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ 
• Rod Johnson, Spring Creator
• Robert Martin, Agile Programming expert
• and there will be 80 more speakers...

The tracks at this year's QCon SF include:

Architectures you've always wondered about
Facebook, MySpace, Shutterfly, Digg.com are confirmed, with more coming. 

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.

Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied
Actual use of functional programming languages and actor/concurrent languages.

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.

Scaling Agility
How to Scale Lean and Agile in huge companies with large development orgs.

If you didn't make it to last years QCon SF you can read more about it in the QCon attendee blogger roundup article, and also you can watch some of our past sessions.   We are currently in the process of assembling the speakers for QCon SF with a full schedule to be posted in early July.  Registration is $1495 for the 3 day event until June 13th, and increases afterwards every 45 days. Group discounts are available.  QCon is co-produced by InfoQ.com and Trifork, producer of the Danish JAOO conference.

InfoQ welcomes you, we hope to see you there! 

Visit http://qcon.infoq.com/sanfrancisco-2008

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