QCON SF: return of the fundamentalist functional programmer
Posted by Arjan Blokzijl in the early afternoon: November 30th, 2008
While attending QCon San Francisco, I had the particular pleasure of attending a whole track that was devoted to the area of functional programming, a topic that I have a profound interest in. After having followed the track, I'm even more convinced than before that functional programming is not confined the the academic world. I think that it will have a profound impact on our mental perspective and the way we think about programming and problem solving in the next coming years. In this blog, I will summarize the sessions I followed, provide you with a couple of thought provoking ideas that I picked up, and hopefully makes you think about your programming style.
QCon San Francisco 2008 – Unleash Your Domain
Posted by Erik Rozendaal in the late afternoon: November 22nd, 2008
The talk "Unshackle Your Domain" given by Greg Young was the highlight of QCon for me. An architectural approach that is relatively easy to understand, incredibly scalable, and supports a rich domain model. (more...)
QCon San Francisco 2008 – Calling Java
Posted by Erik Rozendaal at around evening time: November 21st, 2008
After two days of QCon you get the feeling that no one is talking about Java anymore. C#, Erlang, F#, Groovy, Ruby, and Scala seem to have taken over. The only new Java stuff being talked about are libraries, application servers, or just IDE improvements. No one is talking about the Java language.
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QCon San Francisco 2008 – Architects & Agilists
Posted by Erik Rozendaal in the wee hours: November 21st, 2008
The QCon San Francisco 2008 conference was opened with an interesting keynote by Rebecca Parsons and Martin Fowler. In their talks they addressed the often strained relationship between traditional architects and agile development and how to improve this relationship to the benefit of both the agile development team and architects. These benefits include cross-project and cross-department knowledge exchange, sharing of the architects many years of experience with the developers, and only working on the architecture that is actually needed. (more...)
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