So today was the last of 3 days at JAOO 2009 in Aarhus. 3 days to fill your head with a lot of cool technical information from a lot of great speakers. My output from the conference and what I will follow up on in the future are:
- NServiceBus – nice messaging and cool presenration by Udi Dahan
- Umbraco – Just need to try out this cool CMS tool. I think Niels did a great job and actually managed to get a lot done in a short time, this could have something to do with a good CMS?
- REST – A topic that caught my attention, and added a book to the bookshelf.
- Agile / Pattern / Effectivity - don´t know how to seperate some of the tracks, Martin Fowler, some Leads/architects just managed to inspire in how to do your job, coache your colleauges, living in a non agile organization.
- Windows AZURE and SQL AZURE – MS in the colud :) Cloud was a hot topic at the conference, and AZURE was one of the tracks. At first glance it seems very cool and quite simple using WebRole and Worker Role, but when you dive into it, it makes you think really think. There are some limitations for instance SQL AZURE has limitation at 10 gb, some “keys” must be strings etc. I just think you have to read more about it and really think about the design of a solution using the AZURE platform. But one cool thing and simple thing to understand was instance scaleability, you just increment the number of instances for serveres in your config, and whoola you have scaled (think you should pay first ;) ). But AZURE for sure makes topics like REST and messaging really hot.
- Functional programming – Might not be a topic I will get my hands on at first, but who knows. After all Mads Torgesen did a great F# presentation and discussion at the ANUG meeting.
- NHibernate – Ayende himself presented some cool NHibernate stuff and talked about the development cycle of NHibernate profiler, Oh boy has he made a great framework for developing this cool tool. How he could add features to the tool in minutes, just to crazy!
- Google datacenter – Wow wild wild buildings with way to much power and cooling indside, nice to see where all my “googeling” goes, might be in container "#7856 :)
What about Gadgets…
Well well ofcourse where developers are the gadgets are and the exhibitors had a lot of stuff with them, I got a small Airgun :).
And I got this in a google hosted competition:
Mobile Solar Charger nice little tool, just need some sun to test it :)
…Any books?
Oh yes inspired by the speakers, and to help me better understand some of the areas in which I will look further into I bought these two books:
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