Going to QCon London? I am and a bunch of my friends are too! Just a heads up that the early bird is about to expire this Friday.

If you haven’t been to QCon before, I can really recommend it. What I find especially attractive by this conference is its various tracks that should satisfy the most demanding devs and architects, and of course not to mention the speaker list (which is still growing). Here’s a few selected speakers from my point of view:

• Dan North
• Floyd Marinescu
• Jim O. Coplien
• Joe Armstrong
• Jon Skeet
• Kevlin Henney
• Michael T. Nygard
• Ola Bini
• Ayende (Oren Eini)
• Rod Johnsen
• Ryan Slobojan
• Stefan Tilkov
• Steve Freeman
• Udi Dahan
• Ulf Wiger

And here’s the tracks:

• Architectures You've Always Wondered About
• Dev and Ops: A single team
• Functional programming
• Non-Relational DBs & Web Oriented Data
• Software Craftsmanship
• Solution Track: Wednesday
• 2015 Software Development
• Agile Evolution
• AlphaGeeks on .NET
• Cloud Solutions
• Irresponsible Architectures and Unusual Architects
• Solutions Track: Performance and ScalabilityBrowser as a Platform
• Cool Stuff with Java
• How do you test that?
• SOA 2010
• The Concurrency Challenge

Hope to see you in London March 10-12 (March 8-9 for tutorials).

The 27th of February Anders Norås will come and have two presentations on Domain Specific Languages (DSL). First we only planned one, but when I asked Anders if the presentation would be strictly .Net he suggested having two presentations, one on .Net and one on Java :) I thought this was a great opportunity to get the two local communities in Bergen together under the same roof. Sometimes there is sessions that is not directly connected to a technology platform and these types of presentations are great for joining forces and share experiences. Hopefully NNUG will visit JavaBin next time something like this comes around.

I will post more info about the sessions later and if you're a member of NNUG you will get the meeting invitation shortly. The same goes for JavaBin members.

Really looking forward to this and I hope to see you there.