The EclipseCon 2009 Emerging Technology Track

Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track and some of the talks that you can expect to find at this year’s EclipseCon.

Many (or perhaps most) of the talks on the Emerging Technology track have some connection to one Technology project or another. While some of these talks are focused very specifically on an individual project, I think that some of the more interesting talks are concerned more with how a technology project interfaces with the rest of the world.

Perhaps the best example of this is the combined RCP/Higgins talk, Identity Management in Your RCP Application with Higgins, hosted by a variety of folks including Mary Ruddy from the Higgins project, along with a cast of some of the biggest names in RCP-based application development. Frankly, I think that Higgins is pretty useful stuff, but to hear about it in the context of combining it with other technology I care about makes me tingle.

Bjorn and I took a few minutes in the podcast to discuss an interesting bit of technology that we’re trying out this year: RFID tags in the attendee badges. The idea is that we’ll be able to keep track of the talks that folks wander in and out of and thereby gain a real understanding of which talks provide real value. Don’t worry, we’re keeping track of RFIDs, but we’re not connecting with names.

Of course, if you like the interaction between the physical and virtual worlds as much as Bjorn and I do, be sure to attend Leveraging Agile Practices with the RFID-enabled Eclipse IDE, with your host Dann Martens.

EclipseCon 2009 will be held March 23-26 in Santa Clara, California. Come to EclipseCon and beat the winter blues…

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Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader. Wayne is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 24 posts at DZone.