tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58472166307466190072024-03-08T14:48:09.396-08:00wondering about this or thatDavid Forbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05970970948164020640noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847216630746619007.post-55132123670937086762007-11-11T23:41:00.000-08:002007-11-12T00:15:35.735-08:00qcon - the right place to beExhilirated after gorging on brain candy this week, I have a moment to reflect on what just happened. QCon was the right place to be. I can't imagine where else I would have rather been. If I had the week to do again, I would probably march right down to the Westin...again.<br /><br />Now for a brief set of notes on the conference:<br /><br />Day 1 - Domain Driven Design Tutorial with Eric Evans - time well spent.<br /><br />Day 2 - Domain Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Neal Ford - entertaining topic; not much more than that, at least for me at this point in time.<br /><br />Conference Day 1 - Architecture Quality lead by Aino Vonge Corry. I pity others who didn't have the privilege of Aino's insight as they headed down the tracks. Rick Gabriel stole the day - i.e. stole Day 1 for me. First: Extraordinarily Large Self-Sustaining Systems - very cool talk mostly about what has not yet happened. Then the Keynote at the end of the day, "50 in 50". The most creative hour of the week.<br /><br />Conference Day 2 - Architecture Quality. Dan Pritchett relayed eBay's choice to switch from ACID to BASE. From what I could gather, they used the Learning Indirectly Through Multiple Unfortunate Scenarios (LITMUS) test to get there.<br /><br />Conference Day 3 - Architectures you've always wondered about. Second Life by Ian Wilkes - one of my favorite hours of the week. eBay by Randy Schoup - so well done. Randy lays out the agenda, introduces each topic, drills down, then reviews the topic to completion.<br /><br />Thank you, Trifork - this week was well worth the time and expense.David Forbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05970970948164020640noreply@blogger.com0