{"id":600,"date":"2012-03-01T04:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-03-01T04:31:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T03:31:46","slug":"looking-forward-to-qcon-london-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/looking-forward-to-qcon-london-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to QCon London 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, today is 29th February 2012, a leap year and day. Tomorrow will be first day of March, which also the same month that <a href=\"https:\/\/qconlondon.com\/\">QCon London 2012<\/a> takes place. I was due to give an updated JavaFX tutorial, on the Tuesday university, but it did not work out in the time. I <i>still<\/i> will be making an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/qconlondon.com\/london-2012\/schedule\/thursday.jsp\">Thursday 8th March<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/qconlondon.com\/london-2012\/schedule\/friday.jsp\">Friday 9th March<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you still want to register for this conference, then go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.trifork.com\/london-2012\/registration\/\">register with QCon London<\/a> with a special discount code <font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"4\">PILG100<\/font>, which it is my pleasure discounts and save you \u00a3100.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>On the Thursday, I will be going to&nbsp;<b>James Strachan<\/b>&#8216;s talk&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https:\/\/qconlondon.com\/london-2012\/presentation\/Riding the Camel into the Cloud\">Riding Camel into the Cloud<\/a><\/b>.&nbsp;I am looking forward to the functional language Friday, which features <b><a href=\"https:\/\/qconlondon.com\/london-2012\/presentation\/Non blocking, composable reactive web programming with Iteratees in Play2\">The Play 2.0 Framework<\/a><\/b>, rewritten in Scala. This is a talk from the horse&#8217;s mouth yet again, by <b>Guillaume Bort<\/b> and <b>Sadek Drobi<\/b>, who created this simpler web framework, which surprisingly is not based on Java EE or Servlet.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will see you there, then, next week \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_0451_posterised_375x500.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Here is yet another entry written under Ubuntu and Blogilo. The posterised photo is I holding my snowboard in Kaprun, Austria, 27 February 2012 )<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, today is 29th February 2012, a leap year and day. Tomorrow will be first day of March, which also the same month that QCon London 2012 takes place. I was due to give an updated JavaFX tutorial, on the Tuesday university, but it did not work out in the time. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,21,67,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}