javabloggers - win a free pass to QCon, London!

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:06:00 GMT

How would you like a chance to win a free 5 day pass to QCon, London (12th-16th March 2007)? And how about a bit of discount at the same time? :-)

Thanks to the QCon organisers, I’m pleased to announce that a special promotional code of javabloggers has been created. Use this code when registering for the conference and you’ll receive an *additional* 50GBP off the current prices. This is your chance to make additional savings over and above the early registration discounts.

Right, so if you’d like a chance to win a *free* 5 day conference pass, here’s what you need to do.

Write a blog entry that mentions and links to QCon, London.
Send my blog entry (this one) a TrackBack or leave a comment with the link to your blog entry.

That’s it! For every ten registrations that use the special javabloggers promotional code, somebody will be chosen at random from the list of TrackBacks and comments to receive a free conference pass. Tell *your* readers about the promotional code – the more people that register with it, the more passes will be given away.

Good luck and see you there!

p.s. if you’re thinking of registering 10 or more people yourself (e.g. through your company) get in touch with me via e-mail (simon at javaranch dot com) ;-)

QCon : London gets a proper software development conference

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:54:00 GMT

London (UK) has a staggering amount of software development and innovation going on, yet is rarely host to a software development conference of any note. Most of the "big" conferences tend to take place in the US, although this *has* started to change over the past couple of years. From talking to others in London, European conferences such as JavaPolis and JAOO are popular destinations that people rave about, although they too are not exactly on our doorstep. Well, this is about to change in 2007 because London is getting its own "proper" conference.

Organised by InfoQ.com and JAOO, QCon is a week long event scheduled for the week of March the 12th. The first 2 days are in-depth tutorials and the remaining 3 days are conference sessions. Overall there are over 10 tracks covering topics such as Java, .NET, Ruby, agile development, SOA, AJAX and even architectures for investment banking. This is going to be an enterprise application development conference with something for all of us, regardless of which technology, methodology or business area we work with.

Since QCon is taking place in London, it's a conference that I would have attended myself. However, I'm delighted to say that my involvement doesn't stop at just attending. I'm presenting an in-depth tutorial on JMX in the first half of the conference and hosting the Java in Action track in the second. I'm really looking forward to both of these and I'll be talking some more about them in the near future.

This is a fantastic opportunity to meet other enterprise application developers and architects that work around London, while at the same time learning about all of the new and cool stuff that's happening in the industry. See you at QCon, London in March.

p.s. discounts are available for early registration but stay tuned for a chance to win a *free* conference pass :-)

Simon Brown - conference tag

javabloggers - win a free pass to QCon, London!

QCon : London gets a proper software development conference