I am attending QCon London 2009 next week and I am in the process of deciding which bits I will attend. Although this is the first proper conference I have been able to get to (benefits of controlling your own training budget!), I am aware that sometimes you can end up going to less than you thought, but it’s good to have a plan. Aside from keynotes, my plan is currently:
Wednesday
Particularly keen on the Agile Track on this day, particularly the Michael Feather’s TDD retrospective but some of the Emerging Languages stuff : particularly Iron Python and Martin Fowler’s Ruby talk. Might check out some of the Web as a Platform stuff too.
Thursday
Mainly dominated by the DDD track today. I must try and finish ‘the book’ before I go (it’s really good and I can’t believe it is so long before I read it). Sadly this means I will miss the Guardian Architecture talk, but maybe ‘Rebuilding guardian.co.uk with DDD’ will be more interesting/relevant. I also hope I can make some of the Agile organisational patterns stuff too. Everything else looks quite interesting but the DDD stuff will probably be the biggest draw!
Friday
If I haven’t dropped from exhaustion, I like the look of the DSLs track and Historically Bad Ideas (at the least I think it would make me feel better about some of mine…). Obviously, Tony Hoare’s null reference talk is an absolute must and Traditional Programming Modules… will make me feel better about some of my more recent [enforced] working practices (I say no more than that). Might check out Groovy too…
Sadly, I can’t attend bullseye as after this, as we are off to walk a chunk of the South Downs way so I have to get my skates on to Brighton!
I think there is going to be some interesting stuff here. I picked QCon mainly for the interesting subjects and people that are talking. I prefer to attend the general software development talks rather than those relating to a specific technology as I find them more interesting, but I will try and make a bit of a mix of general/technology specific topics where I can.
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