This week I was privileged enough to attend QCon London and now I’m finding myself in the unfortunate position of attempting to representatively summarise the vast enormity of wonderfully exciting moments that constituted the event. Essentially the conference as a whole is a superlative occasion chock full of super interesting people, conversations and experiences.

The conference attracts Software experts from all walks - language designers (such as Joe Armstrong, Ola Bini and Rich Hickey), agile coaches (such as Linda Rising and Gabrielle Benefield), SOA experts (such as Jim Webber, Ian Robinson and Stefan Tilkov) and just a ton of really interesting people and subjects. One of the great aspects of the conference is that it is divided into tracks, each lasting a day and each having a curator who selects and organises the speakers for that track. I think that this is a really great way of organising things and provides a much more consistent feel to the event as a whole.

One of the overwhelmingly annoying things about a conference as good as QCon is that invariably there is always hard decisions to make in terms of who to see. I highly recommend anybody that gets the chance to attend a Trifork-organised conference (QCon and JAOO being the main players) to do so. In the next few blog posts I’ll cover the highlights of my experiences of each day.