JAOO Australia 2009
Today’s blog is sponsored by the word “awesome”.
I’ve just come back from a trip to the awesome QCon London 2009 and the (thankfully) awesome speakerconf 09 (more of both in blogs soon, promise!)
Coming at the beginning of May, though, is the most awesome JAOO Australia 2009 in both Sydney and Brisbane. Last year’s inaugural event was awesome and this year’s looks to be its match.
The awesome Dave Thomas asked me to speak there on “something Enterprisey”, so I’m putting together notes and experiences on applying Agile practices to enterprise architectures. It’s easy to see that current economic drivers make it imperative for a firm’s technology leaders to do more to embrace rapid business change within IT. The talk will draw on ThoughtWorks projects across the globe, including those I participated in both in the US and Australia. It’s Neo Architectural. It’s for Modern Architects.
Also, my very talented and awesome wife, Amanda Laucher, will be presenting on DSLs and language-oriented programming, providing some insight on when to make one and some samples in C#, F# and MGrammar. Don’t worry if you only know Java or Ruby, you’ll get plenty out of the talk if you want to learn more about DSLs.
Amanda will also be teaming up with Joel Pobar to provide an Introduction to Functional Programming tutorial, with a focus on the awesome F# language. If you want to know about partial applications, dynamic pattern matching, idiomatic units of measure, and asynchronous workflows on top of the usual functional programming concepts, then this talk is for you. If someone at work is saying “we need to exploit concurrency” then this talk is for you. Again, if you’re coming from Java land that’s fine, there’s enough to get you looking at Scala or the awesome Clojure languages too.