Schedule - Friday

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Schedule  Ajax & Browser-Based Applications  Architectures you always wondered about  Reflecting on our Agile Journey - How do we reach Mastery?  What makes Ruby Roll?
Host Scott Delap James Govenor Deborah Hartmann Obie Fernandez
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction: Ajax & Browser-Based Applications
Trackhost: Scott Delap, Author, Desktop Java Live
Location: Fleming Room
Introduction: Case studies
Trackhost: James Governor
Location: St James's Suite
Agile Mastery Open Space opening
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting & Trackhost: Deborah Hartmann, InfoQ Agile Editor
Introduction: What makes Ruby Roll?
Trackhost: Obie Fernandez, Rails Developer's Guide
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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09:30 - 09:45 Break
09:45 - 10:45 Ajax and design patterns : Do we need a client tier?
Dave Crane, Author, Ajax Patterns
Location: Fleming Room
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The eBay Architecture  Striking a balance between site stability, feature velocity, performance and cost
Dan Pritchett, Technical Fellow, eBay, Inc.
Location: St James's Suite
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When Agile Hits The Wall: Dealing with the organizational challenges of Agile adoption
Joseph Pelrine, CST, C*O of MetaProg
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Extending Rails with Plugins
James Adam, Lead, Rails Engines
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Google Web Toolkit: What, Why, and How
Bruce Johnson, Google Web Toolkit Lead
Location: Fleming Room
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Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring
William Soo, CTO, Voca
Location: St James's Suite
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Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep
Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers
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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
Zed Shaw, Creator, Mongrel Ruby HTTP Server
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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12:00 - 13:00 lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise with Flex and Apollo
Christophe Coenraets, Flex Lead, Adobe
Location: Fleming Room
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Why not to choose a relational database
Philip Howard, Research Director
Location: St James's Suite
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Getting to Agile Quality Management
Andreas Schliep, Scrum Master, SPRiNT iT
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MetaProgramming Ruby
Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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14:00 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 15:30 Modern web applications with Dojo: the cutting edge
Eugene Lazutkin
Location: Fleming Room
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Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
Mark Nottingham
Location: St James's Suite
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Mock Roles, Not Objects
Nat Pryce, Independent consultant, B13 & Steve Freeman, Independent consultant, M3P
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Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out.
James Cox
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Prototype and script.aculo.us: Spending the weekends at home again
Thomas Fuchs, Creator of Script.aculo.us
Location: Fleming Room
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Casestudy: The design, architecture, and implementation of InfoQ.com
Alexandru Popescu, Co-founder: TestNG, InfoQ & Floyd Marinescu
Location: St James's Suite
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Agile Mastery Open Space closing
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting
Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages
Rich Kilmer, RubyConf Founder
Location: Elizabeth Windsor
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17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 18:45 Keynote Panel
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting & Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns & Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ & Jeff Sutherland, Scrum co-founder & Dan North, ThoughtWorks
Location: Fleming Room