{"id":153,"date":"2008-11-22T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T15:45:28","slug":"another-great-qcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/another-great-qcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Great QCon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just getting ready to fly home from QCon San Francisco<\/a>. Not surprisingly, it was another great conference, and the organizers told me that attendance was up about 30% over last year. Having a well organized and well executed conference with a large number of great speakers tends to have that effect.<\/p>\n

Jim Webber<\/a> put together and ran the REST track, and it was one of the best tracks I’ve ever been a part of. Mark Nottingham<\/a> is extremely knowledgeable on the REST and HTTP fronts, so he gave a very informative talk on HTTP and the work of the HTTPbis group<\/a>. Ian Robinson<\/a> and Stu Charlton<\/a> both spoke on using REST in the enterprise (it’s coming, like it or not<\/a>). Leonard Richardson<\/a> talked about how to judge the quality of RESTful services, but I missed most of his talk because I went out to stretch my legs and couldn’t get back in because the room was so packed! I spoke about my work with REST, Erlang, and Yaws<\/a>. You can get all the slide sets for this track from the QCon site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Got to meet a few people in person for the first time, such as Leonard<\/a>, and also Tim Bray<\/a> (who asked great questions during my talk, thanks Tim), and Michael Nygard<\/a>, who is as bright and articulate in person as he is in his amazingly wonderful book<\/a> (if you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and put it on your holiday wish list). I also briefly met Dave Pollak<\/a> who gave a great talk on Scala<\/a> and Lift<\/a> in Erik Meijer’s<\/a> “Functional and Concurrent Programming Languages Applied” track<\/a>. I found it interesting that in Lift he uses some of the same request dispatching techniques I use in my work with Yaws, even though he’s writing in Scala and I in Erlang. Functional languages rule.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Erlang, Francesco Cesarini<\/a> was there, also speaking in Erik’s track. He talked about Erlang concurrency and the continued development of Erlang’s SMP capabilities. Jan Lehnardt<\/a> gave a couple of CouchDB<\/a> talks, which seems to just keep garnering more and more interest, and rightfully so. Dennis Byrne<\/a> gave a talk on Erlang and DSLs — I unfortunately missed it but knowing Dennis I’m sure it was thought-provoking and worthwhile.<\/p>\n

It was also fun getting to see and hang out with Jay Fields<\/a> and Glenn Vanderburg<\/a> again. Both are extremely sharp.<\/p>\n

Thanks again to the QCon organizers for another wonderful conference, and I’m already looking forward to QCon London next March<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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