QCon London (March 10-12)

The 4th annual QCon London (March 10-12) has been and gone.

QCon London has become a mainstay conference for the UK and European software development community. This year continued in the tradition of practitioner-driven high quality content with over 15 tracks and 100 speakers.

QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering Architecture & Design, Java, .NET, Emerging Languages, NoSQL, Browser as a Platform, Software Craftsmanship, SOA, Agile methodologies and other timely topics. Last years' QCon London drew over 500 people despite the economic downturn. There were thousands of tweets and hundreds of blogs written by attendees - see Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2009 for a feel!

The Speakers

Some of this year's speakers included:

  • Don BOX
    The principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environment.

  • Ralph Johnson
    Co-author of the now-legendary book, "Design Patterns" and "Gang of Four" member.

  • Joe Armstrong
    Father of Erlang.

  • Ola Bini
    Jruby Core Developer, book author.

  • Steve Freeman, Rod Johnson
    Creator of Spring.

  • Michael Nygaard
    Author of "Release It!".

Schedule

You can see the full schedule here.

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