Slides from Wednesday and Thursday

Now the slides from Wednesday and Thursday is available on the QCon website. Just find the desired talk on the schedule and if the slides for that talk is available, there will be a link to where you can download them.
That is; if you need to find the slides from the talk about “A Kanban [...]

If you twitter – does that mean that you are a twit?

One of the greatest things about going to QCon is that you can meet all the fantastic speakers in a very informal setting. Last night I was having conversations with people like Joe Armstrong, Steve Vinoski, Jonathan Trevor and Kresten Krab Thorup in the hotel bar and that was fantastic – I learned a lot.
The [...]

Pictures from the second day of QCon

Kent Beck at the keynote today

The man in the QCon-green suit is Kresten Krab Thorup, CTO at Trifork.

How XP are you?

I really liked the questions that Rachel Davies asked the audience in her “Agile Mashups”-session. It was very informative to hear the answers.
One of the questions was “How XP are you?” and specifically:
Can you claim to be a XP-team…

if you don’t use index cards?
if you don’t write code test-first?
if you don’t program in pairs?
 if you [...]

Pictures from today

The registration this morning:

The welcome by Floyd from InfoQ and Kresten from Trifork:

Eric Gamma talked about Eclipse and moving from a closed source project to an open source project with the same team.

Linda Rising from the Agile track introduced the other speakers in the track:

Today – agile in practice

Today I have chosen to follow the agile track with Linda Rising as track host.
There are several great speakers in this track which include Linda who always works the topic from a funny angle – today it was the angle of cycles and it sparked a great discussion about sleep cycles and work cycles. I [...]

Blogging “live” from QCon London 2008

Hello everybody!
This is a blog set up only to blog about QCon London 2008 organized by Trifork and InfoQ. My name is Therese Hansen, and I will blog about the conference as I see it and contribute to the pool of blog posts from participants in QCon. I am from Denmark so please forgive me [...]