(My notes from the conference is available here.)

From Oct 5 to Oct 7, I was fortunate enough to attend the Jaoo 2009 conference on software engineering in Aarhus. It was a great conference with three days of insightful talks. The talks I attended were:

Monday

• Keynote: Scaling Up Agility: The Architected Agile Approach/Barry Boehm (slides)
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code 2/Michael Feathers (slides)
• Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level/Billy Newport (slides)
• Techniques That Still Work no Matter How Hard We Try to Forget Them/Keith Braithwaite (slides)
• Making use of Patterns/Martin Fowler
• xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code to Improve ROI/Gerard Meszaros (slides)

Tuesday

• Keynote: Classes, Jim, But Not as We Know Them/Simon Peyton-Jones (slides)
• Agile Modeling and Documentation “Best” Practices/Scott Ambler (slides)
• Actors, and the Forgotten Art of Modeling Concurrent Systems/Dave Thomas, Kresten Krab Thorup (slides)
• Buy it, Build it, Download It, or Browse It? Achieving Effectiveness with Enterprise Applications/Michael T. Nygard (slides)
• Hydras and Hypermedia/Ian Robinson (slides)
  
• Maximum Value, Maximum Speed through Lean Thinking – How Business and IT can Collaborate/Dave Thomas

Wednesday

• Keynote: C++, Java and .NET – Lessons Learned from the Internet Age, and What it Means for the Cloud and Emerging Languages/Cameron Purdy (slides)
• Guiding Your Personal Life — “Plan-Driven” or “Agile”/Linda Rising (slides)
• Object Relational Mapping += 2: More than just data <-> object/Oren Eini
• Deliberate Practice in Software Development/Mary Poppendieck (slides)
• Umbraco: An Open Source Web CMS that Devs Will Like … Really? (slides)
• Delivering Quantified Stakeholder Values with Agile – A Case study from Bring/Kai Gilb (slides)

As a supplement to the official homepage, the Twitter feed provided a great source of information for attendees to learn about the presentations and reactions. Not being on Twitter meant missing out on half the conference.

For other reactions, listen to (in Danish) Daniel Frost and Brian Rasmussen discussing day one and two. On day three Daniel interviewed Mads Torgersen of the C# core team.