The first two days of QCon London were tutorials. I didn’t actually spend all my time there, since I had to get back to our office at some times too. On the Monday, I attended Jim Webbers tutorial called GET connected, which talked about different ways of using the web for distributing and separation functionality, where REST style SOA is part of it, but also other things like POX. It was a very information rich session, and in the end Jim had to skip several things that I would personally have been interested to find out more about, such as different ways to handle security, and so on. At the end of the day, it was a very good tutorial, but the material was really too much for one half day.
I spent the rest of the day in the office, reconnecting with lots of colleagues. Lovely.
Tuesday I spent running between several tutorials. The morning was mostly in the Advanced Ruby tutorial by Sam Aaron, which was overall very good content. I think I might have ruined it for Sam a bit by sitting there and being annoying. The only thing that could have improved the tutorial would have been some more advanced material in the pieces on functional programming – not that the material Sam was using was bad, it was just a bit more basic than the rest, which made it feel a bit uneven.
In the afternoon, I spent some time in Dan Norths tutorial on BDD. His material is riveting and very useful. In fact, it was so riveting it was hard to find a place to sit, so I ended up not staying the whole time. I then sat down for a while in Joe Armstrongs tutorial on Erlang. Also good stuff, but it was material I already knew. So at the end of the day I went back to Sam Aarons talk on Ruby Aesthetics, which ended up sparkling several really interesting discussions.
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