Tracks
.NET Client Applications
Host: Michael Stal, Siemens CT
.NET Enterprise Development
Host: Ted Neward, Independent consultant
.NET is growing heavily in deployment for enterprise systems, and continues to be augmented with new technologies from Microsoft such as the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.
Abstractions for Concurrency
Host: Erik Meijer, Microsoft
This track will provide concrete advice on how to write correct and efficient distributed and concurrent applications today. The track also gives a peek into future technologies such as transactional memory, data parallelism, and orchestration to make concurrency more tractable for the working programmer tomorrow.
Architecture Quality
Host: Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG
Back to the Future
Host: Dave Thomas & Ole Lehrmann Madsen
Domain Specific Languages, and Beyond
Host: Markus Völter, Independent Consultant
This track covers a broad range of topics in this area, covering both ideas about how these notions influence thinking in programming language development, and how you can use this to be more effective in the problems you face every day.
Emerging Web Technologies
Host: To be announced
This track covers some current trends in technologies and frameworks for programming web applications. Two years ago AJAX was practically unknown, now it is all over the place; but...
Java Rich Client Development
Host: Kai Tödter, Siemens
In this track we will cover a range of Java client-side technologies, and hopefully find some time for interesting discussions on pro and cons for these various techniques.