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JAOO Australia: Weaving a path through thursdays program
By admin | May 6, 2009
JAOO Sydney is here! Tutorials started yesterday, and tomorrow Clemens Szyperski will deliver the opening keynote “Composing all the Way”.
While keynotes and plenary assemblies are obvious choices, the rest of the conference sports three tracks – and since I haven’t got split-personality, choices will have to be made. Looking over the conference schedule, this is my personal idea of a path through the schedule:
Thursday morning:
While the two iPhone talks “Introduction to Objective-C” and “How to build and iPhone application in 45 minutes” do sing the sexy song from the iPhone siren, I’ll split attention between the language focused track – attending Douglas Crockford’s “Writing Large Applications in JavaScript”, and the process focused track, attending Bas Vodde’s “Scaling Scrum with feature teams”.
Thursday afternoon:
Succeeding lunch (and a perousal of exhibitor booths for free stuff), Amanda Lauchers “Domain Specific Languages and Language Oriented Programming” session looks interesting – having avoided actually doing any DSL’s (because they mainly come with some Ruby-evangelist or another) it might be time to get on the bandwagon.
While none of the talks in the next slot really get me excited “Speeding Ducks” by Avi Bryant looks to be my option – given the fun title ; )
Then it gets a bit more interesting: Glenn Vanderburg tends to be a good speaker, and although I shy away from Ruby (and Rails), the subject of the talk could be quite relevant for some of the projects I’m on. However both the other talks in the slot: “Builds: From Good to Great” by Erik Doernenburg, and “Everything You Wanted to Know about Enterprise Database Access” by Patrik Linskey would probably be highly relevant. Both Patrik and Erik are very knowledgable on their subjects. In other words this is a tough choice – I’ll probably make mine at the last moment : )
Last slot of the day will probably go to the ‘All fluff no stuff’ (cloud computing) crowd, attending “Consistency, Storage, and Reliability in the Cloud” by Jonas S Karlsson – because scaling applications is never trivial – and he might just bring something interesting to the table. If I had not attended Linda Risings tutorial on retrospectives, I would however be very tempted to get wiser on estimation : )
Co-founder of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes finishes the day talking on “Atlassian: An Australian Success Story” - and I’m hoping for an entertaining talk – fearing a promotional talk.
Thursday evening:
In any case, Thursday evening features the conference party – and I’m making sure to there to join in on the fun with speakers and other attendents – free food and the odd drink tends to get the spirit soaring (along with the head next morning : ) )
