Tracks at QCon London 2009

Tracks at QCon London 2009 Wednesday Architectures in Financial Applications SOA in the Real World Scripting for the Enterprise Turning on a sixpence - technical skills for Agile development Web as a platform Thursday Agile Organisational patterns Architectures you Always Wondered About Domain-Driven Design & Development Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied Java.Next - Key Technologies Shaping the Future of Java Friday Architecture for the Architect Domain Specific Languages Historically bad ideas Next Generation Web on .NET Systems that never stop

Agile Organisational patterns Host: Linda Rising Whats the optimal way of working together - Social aspects of software dev teams, organizational alignment, compensation,self-organization, decision making, vision. Architecture for the Architect Host: Dan North How to prevent masonry in IT, do long-time data preservation, and create real scalable architectures. Architectures in Financial Applications Host: TBA The latest innovations as well as time-proven best practices that architects of banking & finance systems need to know. Architectures you Always Wondered About Host: Floyd Marinescu Amazon.com, SecondLife, eBay, Linked-In, Yahoo!, Orbitz.com, Voca, InfoQ.com. Domain Specific Languages Host: Neal Ford This track covers a wide range of business areas and technical implementations of DSLs. Domain-Driven Design & Development Host: Eric Evans This track will take you through the foundations of DDD, and how they are applicable and actually applied in projects. Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied Host: Erik Meijer A series of examples of actual use of functional programming languages and actor/concurrent languages, and how it affects our way to comprehend distributed, asynchronous software systems. Historically bad ideas Host: Floyd Marinescu & Aino Corry Which disastrous ideas changed the way we think, and what can we learn from them now?	Java.Next - Key Technologies Shaping the Future of Java Host: Scott Delap It has hard to believe that Java is over 10 years old. Despite its transition from a young up and coming language to that of a prove enterprise building block, the community continues to innovate. This track will look at a number of technologies pushing the limits of Java on the server, desktop, and places in between. Next Generation Web on .NET Host: Beat Schwegler Developing the next generation of smart clients on the web platform, based on .NET technologies. Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC / Visual Web, jQuery, Mobile, Volta, Sync SOA in the Real World Host: Stefan Tilkov Real-world case studies focused on enterprise SOA setups instead of large Web properties. Scripting for the Enterprise Host: Ola Bini Python - Ruby - and - Groovy are increasingly being used in enterprise, large and/or integration settings. We will look into the technologies and the implications of applying these in such settings. Systems that never stop Host: Michael Nygard How do you develop, test, update, maintain, and reason about systems without borders. Turning on a sixpence - technical skills for Agile development Host: Steve Freeman We used to see talks about design patterns, developer best practices, ways to do mocking etc. But our frameworks and languages have moved on. What is best practice now? Web as a platform Host: TBA What happens when all the "real software developers" start looking at the web platform as something similar to the .NET and the Java platforms? How will we be managing complex applications, structuring our projects, testing them, etc?