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QCon SF 2008 - Technology Of Interest
Part of the purpose of attending QCon was to get in synch with the tech community in regards to technology they have experimented with and have found use for. The following is a list of technology/frameworks/etc of interest that I took away from the conference:
CouchDB - Document oriented database
Memcached - Distributed Hashmap
MemcacheDB - A database [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Day 3
I was pretty excited about the “Architectures you’ve always wondered about” stream for day 3 of the conference. It started off horribly. Dan Pritchett of MySpace was up first and basically took the change to showoff his personally little project that allows events from their thousands of servers to notify them what’s going on within [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Day 2
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was expecting more from the conference today than I experienced yesterday. What I’m expecting at a tech conference is to talk tech such that the speaker presents their expertise or lessons learned. I didn’t get much of that yesterday but today was another story. We kicked off [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Day 1
Coming into this conference I have some very high expectations due to the calibre of the speakers at the conference. That being said, it started off with a bang, the opening keynote featured Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons of ThoughtWorks on the topic of how an architect and the agile process are complementary and not adversaries as many many think.
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Can Database Refactoring be Agile?
I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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Barcamp 2008 - Granville Island, Vancouver
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My first Barcamp started the way most mornings do. Alarm goes off, roll out of bed and rub the eyes. Brew a pot of coffee and… you get the idea. This day saw me at the Granville Island market bright and early, 9.30am, okay so not so early, but it was a Saturday… Anyway, in [...]
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Just the stuff please
In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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You know you’re about to make it big when…
the defense industry uses your technology. The funny thing about the semantic web conference was the vendor showcases. I went to a few, where a given semantic technology toolkit vendor would showcase how one can make use of their tool or tools. The thing that struck me was that each and every one that I [...]
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Semantic Web Conference 2008
I had the chance to attend the semantic web conference that what held in San Jose May 18th to 22nd. Before I go any further, there may be many of you who are scratching your head thinking “What is the semantic web?” Dictionary.com defines semantics as the following:
Linguistics.
the study of meaning.
the study of linguistic development [...]
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