Tag: Qcon
Ruby on Rails
Not having the time to code in Java as i once did, i thought that i decided that it was about time to have a go at a new language. I selected Ruby and the Rails framework as i had enjoyed the debate... Read MoreQCon inspired Rubiks cude solving
I attended QCon a few weeks back and Gregor Hohpe of Google was the host of the Architecture track. This ended with a panel and each had a Rubik’s cube, only Gregor got anywhere near solving i... Read MoreQCon – One week on
Ive been back in the office for 1 week, so how has QCon helped. Conversation around cloud computing has been a big hit. I got some good contacts and these have lead to investigation on using the Elast... Read MoreQCon – How good was QCon 2008?
In short fantastic. I’ve attended many larger conferences and I found the smaller size more enabling for communication, both with the speakers and conference attendees. I attended tutorials on A... Read MoreQCon day 5 – Ruby panel discussion
After a number of comments around the conference regarding the near fanatical religious nature of the guys on the Ruby stream, i had to attend. I was not disappointed. If you broke the panel down into... Read MoreQCon day 5 – End Panel with a tired Rod Johnson
Poor Rod Johnson had obviously been up all night working on his Java One slides (there was a deadline on the 14th) . He looked completely exhasted and near drifted off to sleep at some moments; obviou... Read MoreQCon day 5 – BNP Paribas Architecture
A fascinating talk, or maybe a tutorial on how the world of market risk works within BNP Paribas . By outlining clearly the problem space and problems faced by IT departments in the banking world;proc... Read MoreQCon day 5 – The BBC, DRM and video
It was interesting to hear about the problems the BBC has in identifying the location of requests in order to both serve advertisements and apply DRM. We tend to forget that the BBC gets a near set am... Read MoreQCon day 5 – how is ebay architected
Its been interesting to listen to speakers, each of which portraits the strategies and principles and this time was the turn of Randy Shoup. His four strategies for architectures for scale. Partition ... Read More- 2 of 4
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