• Predictable Performance and Scalability - Cameron Purdy

Should provide slides for Crealogix. List of Don'ts if you want to scale.

• Availability and Consistency - Werner Vogels (amazon)

CAP theorem: from consistency, availabilty and operability in case of network partitioning you can only get 2 out of three. ACID and two-phase commit counter high availabiltiy.

• Meeting the Usability Challenge - Larry Constantine

Massive criticism on "user-centered design (Cooper)". Larry tells that focussed and pragmatic approaches on design for use (index cards, focussed usability testing/user observation) --> Slides for Lothar

• Democrizing The Cloud - Erk Meijer Microsoft

"Refactoring from single tier app to web app/ajax app/multi-tier" --> refactor towards a different means of deployment technology, funny thing: 3D-graphics only CSS and DHTML. run IL everywhere. "JavaScript ideal universal runtime, untyped lambda calculus - high-level control structures: closures, continuations"

• Grails - Guillaume Laforge

showed how grails works. interest in cross-language refactoring. should provide our ideas for rails-ruby refactoring for grails as well. try to figure out who is behind groovy eclipse plugin

• Java and Ruby: Practical Techniques for Using JRuby

even while not as seamless as groovy, there is the possibility to mix and match ruby and java code with jruby both ways. spring 2.1 tries to provide even easier mechanisms for that. Rob Harrop from interface21 is a fan of using ruby for domain-specific languages (DSL).