I am ecstatic to announce that Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software fame, has officially confirmed to open the IJTC in Dublin next week with a keynote address. For those who do not know Joel, he is a programmer, entrepreneur, blogger and writer of what I would consider one of the essential books on software engineering practice.
“Joel on Software” is one of those books that rounds out a computer science education with a day to day survival guide to real life programming projects. I would rate it as one of the must-reads that include “The Pragmatic Programmer”, “Death March” and “The Mythical Man Month”. Joel is a very entertaining speaker, and will really set the mood for what has turned out to be a conference line-up that any Java event would be proud of.
The Irish Java Technology Conference runs from the 7th-9th of November at the CineWorld Cinemas in Dublin. Registration for the event is open at http://ijtc.firstport.ie.