2010 Conferences
OSGi DevCon @ JAX London
February 23 - Keynote titled OSGi in the Enterprise: Agility, Modularity, and Architecture’s Paradox
EclipseCon
March 22 - 25 - Tutorial on Modular Architecture
Über Conf
June 14 - 17 - Sessions titled Turtles and Architecture and Patterns of Modular Architecture
Catalyst
July 26 - 30 - Two sessions on rich mobile applications and one on agile development. Half day tutorial on software process improvement.
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[...] The Enterprise is Broken (Kirk Knoernschild) [...]
Great post, and I’d like to add another point. There’s a difference between developing technology and applying technology. If you career interests lie more with developing technology, the typical corporate enterprise may not be the best place for you. While most organizations have some internal development, it’s always going to be a subset of the overall software development space, and certainly much smaller than what a company whose business is software development would do. If, however, you’re interested in applying technology, software development may be interesting, but ultimately, it’s the application of that technology to a business problem, whether it’s off the shelf or built in-house, that drives your job satisfaction, at least from a core responsibilities. Personally, I fall into the latter category, which is why the enterprise world has been such a good fit for me. I know plenty of people who are more interested in the technology, and they bounce around from company to company, based upon their ability to work with the technologies they’re interested in. There’s nothing wrong with either. Enterprises need people with both approaches to be successful. Some may have 30 or 40 year careers, others may have 3 to 4. The most important thing to understand is what your own career aspirations are, and make appropriate decisions. If you’re a technology guy, but are envisioning a 40 year career with one company, you’d better make sure it’s a technology company.