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What:<\/strong> epicenter 2009: http:\/\/epicenter.ie<\/a> When:<\/strong> Wednesday 26th through to Friday 28th August 2009<\/p>\n Those of you travelling from the UK, remember the 31st of August is a Bank Holiday: what better than a technical conference followed by a couple of days in Dublin over a long weekend? Ah go on!<\/em><\/p>\n Where:<\/strong> Trinity College, Dublin<\/p>\n Cost:<\/strong> \u20ac197 for all three days (Special early booking discount ends 6:00pm Friday 21st August. Online prices after this date: 1-Day \u20ac124.00 \/ 2-Day \u20ac183 \/ 3-Day \u20ac220.00)<\/p>\n The early bird discount does make it a very reasonably priced three-day event. If you attend for all three days, you can choose a free O\u2019Reilly book<\/a>! <\/p>\n What to expect:<\/strong> Keynotes<\/strong> Thursday – Prof. Barry Smyth \/ Co-Founder of ChangingWorlds Friday – Colm Mulcahy \/ Cloud Evangelist, Founder & CEO of Saaspoint Microsoft<\/strong> Open Source<\/strong> Java<\/strong> Web<\/strong> Andy Gibson<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Web Application Testing With Selenium Keep up to date:<\/strong> epicenter 2009 is kindly sponsored by…. What: epicenter 2009: http:\/\/epicenter.ie epicenter is three days of software excellence – it’s a conference, it’s an expo, it’s a place to hang out! It’s for software architects, CTO’s and developers of all knowledge and experience levels. When: Wednesday 26th through to Friday 28th August 2009 Those of you travelling from the UK, remember the … Continue reading epicenter 2009: 26.08 – 28.08: Dublin: Microsoft, Open Source, Web and Java sessions!<\/span>
\nepicenter is three days of software excellence – it’s a conference, it’s an expo, it’s a place to hang out! It’s for software architects, CTO’s and developers of all knowledge and experience levels. <\/p>\n
\nThe event has four streams covering Java, Web, Open Source and Microsoft. Each stream has two tracks (except Open Source): expect to choose from four sessions per track (i.e. eight per stream!) <\/p>\n
\nWednesday – Jennifer Condon \/ Enterprise Irelands 4yr strategy for software companies<\/p>\n
\nThe Secrets of an Irish Software Entrepreneur<\/p>\n
\nWhy Cloud will shape the Irish Software Industry<\/p>\n
\nMarco Amoedo<\/a> (MVP) \/ MS Dynamics CRM
\nJon Skeet<\/a> (MVP) \/ Google UK \/ C# \/ Code Contracts & Parallel Extensions
\nRobert Hogg<\/a> (MVP) \/ Black Marble \/ OSLO \/ PM War Stories
\nBarry Carr <\/a>\/ Independent \/ F# – What is Functional Testing?
\nBarry Dorrans<\/a> (MVP) \/ Independent \/ Securing .NET Apps
\nBob Duffy<\/a> (MVP) \/ ProData \/ Microsoft BI \/ SQL Server Virtualisation
\nKeith Eccles \/ Oracle \/ Oracle & .NET Operability
\nRichard Fennell<\/a> (MVP) \/ Black Marble \/ ALM with VSTS2008 \/ Visual Studio & TFS 2010 for the QA\/Tester
\nNiall Flanagan<\/a> (MVP) \/ Independent \/ SQL Server
\nAidan Gallagher \/ Inish Technologies \/ Software Licensing for .NET Apps
\nAlex Mackey<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Visual Studio 2010
\nCraig Murphy (MVP) \/ Independent \/ Introducing OpenXML
\nPhil Bourke (MVP) \/ Tipperary Institute \/ A Classic Games Portfolio
\nIain Angus<\/a> \/ Black Marble \/ Azure<\/p>\n
\nFrancesco Cesarini<\/a> \/ Erlang Consulting \/ Erlang
\nJan Lehnardt<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Couch DB
\nJohn Smedley \/ Ingres \/ Ingres CAFE \/ Ingres within Open Source Community
\nHelgi Thormar Thorbjoernsson<\/a> \/ Websites Releases with PEAR \/ Migrating databases, just because MySQL sucks
\nMel McIntyre<\/a> \/ OpenApp \/ The Health Service Atlas – Python & Zope
\nJeff Genender \/ How to & Being a Good Open Source Committer
\nAndrea Magnorsky<\/a> \/ Monorail MVC<\/p>\n
\nJeff Genender \/ Independent \/ The Rules of SOA
\nEugene Ciurana<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Google App Engine – A Java HOWTO
\nDoug Clarke \/ Oracle \/ Developing with JPA and JAXB \/ JPA 2.0 What’s New
\nSimon Cook<\/a> \/ SUN Microsystems \/ GlassFish \/ Java & Java FX
\nWerner Keil<\/a> \/ Independent \/ STEM (Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler) \/ JSR-275 Measures and Units
\nOwen Hughes \/ Oracle \/ Oracle Database Evolution
\nBarry Carr<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Scala – What is Functional Programming
\nKevin Noonan<\/a> \/ Canibalizing the Google App Engine
\nRob Lally<\/a> \/ A Scala Web Framework \/ Intro to Lean, Kanban & Theory of Constraints for Software Managers
\nIan Sutton \/ Visualizing and Measuring Emergent Design
\nTim Hodkinson<\/a> \/ Liberty IT \/ Agile Development with Scrum
\nAnthony Swart<\/a> \/ SUN Microsystems \/ Sun’s Identity Management Products
\nJohn Meere<\/a> \/ Sun Microsystems \/ Thin Client Computing Live Demo
\nTony Jewtushenko<\/a> \/ Product Innovator \/ Software Globalisation for Java Developers<\/p>\n
\nMarc Grabanski<\/a> \/ MGL Consulting \/ JQuery Fundamentals \/ JQuery Advanced
\nEugene Ciurana<\/a> \/ Independent \/ Mission Critical Enterprise Cloud Applications
\nBarry Smyth<\/a> \/ ChangingWorlds \/ Web Search 3.0
\nPaul Lynch<\/a> \/ Hosting 365 \/ Cloud Computing: The Future Hosting ?
\nRobin Christopherson<\/a> \/ AbilityNet \/ Don’t Make Your Web App a Web Wannabe
\nHelgi Thormar Thorbjoernsson<\/a> \/ Echolibre \/ Coping with Cyber Monday
\nDermot Daly<\/a> \/ Tapadoo \/ Objective C for the iPhone
\nDamian OSuilleabhain<\/a> \/ OS3 \/ Building iPhone Apps in an Hour
\nRomans Malinovski<\/a> \/ &3% Less Fugly – the Making of epicenter.ie
\nDavid Rook \/ Realex Payments \/ Web Security #1 \/ #2
\nJohn Wood<\/a> \/ iQ Content \/ Adapting the Agile Agenda to Interaction Design
\nEoin Keary<\/a> \/ OWASP \/ Application Security Verification Standard<\/p>\n
\nPeter Kovak<\/a> \/ ESET \/ Malware, Cyber Law & Security Solutions in Practice
\nUrban Schrott \/ ESET \/ Cybercrime
\nKevin O’Connor<\/a> \/ Hosting 365 \/ A Market Overview.
\nJonathan Forde<\/a> \/ Realex Payments \/ Integrating into Realex Payments<\/p>\n
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