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I got an email for what looks to be a pretty cool conference that breaks my bank account. Scott Delap will be speaking at QCon @ San Francisco on “Emerging Client Technologies”:

The web has been in a state of transition since its inception. In the beginning there was basic HTML. As more complicated layouts were demanded developers moved to using tables for greater control. Next came CSS to allow the separation of style from structure. Today the shift occurring is not in terms of layout. Instead the driving forces are a better overall user experience, support of rich media such as audio and video, and the ability to run application in both online and offline modes.

The latest dotcom success, YouTube, made rich media an expected part of the internet experience instead of an exception. It along with other sites like it are causing companies to think beyond CSS and HTML. Technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex/Apollo are providing a foundation for such rich media applications. Another growing trend is the concept of taking a web application offline. Advancements in this area include Apollo’s offline capabilities as well as the newly announced Google Gears API. In this track we will dive into these technologies and others that making such a shift possible.

It’s great to see Flex get exposure at a conference full of technical team leads, architects, and project managers from different fields. These are the people who can influence technology decisions for the companies they work for and in turn it can create more opportunities to make use of Flex (provided it’s the best tool to use for their given requirements).

About the $1895 3-day conference, it looks to be a pretty good line up of tracks…

A number of important additions have been made to the conference:

• Kent Beck & Martin Fowler are keynoting & delivering tutorials
• Scrum Master Certification: Delivered by Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland & Gabrielle Benefield
• Yahoo!, eBay, Linked-In, Orbitz, & SecondLife presented in the architecture case studies track
• The track: Practical Security for Application Developers has been finalized, one of the only such tracks at any conference this year.
• A panel on the future of Java development including Joshua Bloch, JRuby creator Charles Nutter Spring Creator Rod Johnson, and .NET language designer Erik Meijer added to the Java In Action track

QCon first debuted in London this past March (see bloggers show coverage) and going forward on will be an annual event in both SF and London, providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a strong focus on architecture & design, as well as other important topics for the professional software developer.

QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. The tracks at the conference include:

• Architectures Case studies - The architectures of Linked-In, Yahoo!, eBay, Second Life, and Orbitz - right from the source.
• Agility on the Edge - Lessons learned from extreme/advanced applications of Agile.
• Architecture Quality - How to achieve sustainable quality (reliability, maintainability, scalability, manageability).
• Bleeding Edge .NET - REST with WCF, XML & LINQ in VB9, EDM & eSQL, Acropolis.
• SOA & the Web: How much REST do we need? - We will explore the architectural differences between the two, highlight their respective benefits, and help you decide when to apply them.
• Emerging Client Technologies - Silverlight vs. JavaFX vs. Adobe Flex/AIR vs. Google’s Ajax RIA stack.
• Five Things I Wish I Learned In College - Languages & techniques being researched today that may change development 20 years from now.
• Java Emerging technologies - JRuby, Grails, Server-side OSGi, DSL development, Batch Processing.
• The Rise of Ruby - learn how to best take advantage of what Ruby has to offer.
• Java in action - Concurrency, Spring Configuration, AOP in the Enterprise, TestNG, Future of Java.
• Practical Security for Application Developers - static analysis, thread modelling, web 2.0, enterprise security api, web services security.

See also past QCon/JAOO talks available online on InfoQ:

• Martin Fowler on Domain Specific Languages
• Operational Manageability by Dan Pritchett, eBay
• DSLs in Ruby with Obie Fernandez
• Jeff Sutherland on the origins of Scrum
• Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?
• Ivar Jacobson on UML, AOP, Methodologies
• Panel: Who will develop Software in 10 years?
• WPF: The future of Windows
• Event Patterns

Registration for the 3 day conference is $1895 until Nov 4th ($300) savings. Substantial group discounts are also available. The conference will be held at the new Westin San Francisco Market Street. Join us in this first annual event in San Francisco!

Hope to see you there,

Floyd Marinescu

Link to QCon 2007 can be found here.

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