Mark Edgington

Category: Qcon

  • QCon day 4 – User interfaces meet the challenge of simplicity

    A simple journey to put across some guidelines to aid in designing user interfaces. The talk lacked a bit of depth for me, in that some of the observations felt a little personal rather than having much evidence to back them up. It was what i needed though to allow me to think about the…

  • QCon day 4 – Clustered architecture patterns

    Ari Zilka CTO of Terracota gave an excellent presentation on how the product works and how it can be used. I was not going to attend this session, but he was excellent on the previous sessions panel, so i was drawn to it. His view on the world of using stateful in memory data and…

  • QCon day 4 – Performance and Scaleability panel

    Scale up, Scale out, Split the problem space, tune or re-architect. You may want to build with a vendor in mind.

  • QCon day 4 – keynote

    Highlighting that the focus should be on social rather than technical skills Kent coaxed developers towards integration with the business people. He pointed out that honesty works and hiding behind complexity and changing requirements is not the best way to build business partners and get them to trust in the software your developing. This is…

  • QCon day 3 – Does my bus look big in this

    Jim Webber and Martin Fowler where fantastic. Humorous and poignant from beginning to end. You really had to be there, go to InfoQ and hope they filmed it.

  • QCon day 3 – computing in the cloud panel discussion

    Without a doubt the highlight of the day so far. The panel of the days presenters covered the whole spectrum of cloud computing from current position to future issues. I have five pages of notes from this so not one for my N810 or my thumbs will go dead. The key points of interest to…

  • QCon day 3 – yahoo pipes

    I posted about pipes about a year ago and it has since increased its modules from 20 to 50 and makes up 1/3 of all mash-up calls to Google. I really need to play with it some more, it really is very cool, bringing a lot of power without the need to code and enabling…

  • QCon day 3 – Google Data API

    The google data API talk concentrated on decisions behind the selection of REST over SOAP; basically RESTs four operations get,put, post and delete are likely to cover 90% of your needs. Also the extensions they have developed around query, authentication, concurrent operations and batch updates. These concepts were tied in nicely to examples of use…

  • QCon day 3 – keeping 99.95% uptime

    I found the speaker a little monotone, but the content of the talk was very interesting. It provided a very clear view of how Merrel Lynch deals with the billions of daily messages, produced by there systems globally. The break down of message precedence and the aim of automated fixing of an issue within an…

  • QCon day 3 – cloud computing, salesforce

    All to much about the product, gave up after 10 mins and went to the banking track.