Amazon DevCon

The web developers at Amazon have been treated to a private conference with 16 top speakers in web technology. Jeff Barr has been blogging a summary of each talk on the Amazon Web Services Blog.

Here are a few of the speakers:

• James Gosling - Father of Java, Sun Microsystems
• Joel Spolsky - of Joel On Software fame, Author of 2 books, former Microsoft employee, and founder of Fog Creek Software.
• George Dyson - beginnings of computing
• Eric Neustadter - talks about Halo 2
• Rael Dornfest - blogging software bloxsom
• Michael Tiemann - wrote the first native code C++ compiler, now works for RedHat
• Greg Kiczales - professor at the Software Practices Lab at the University of British Columbia
• Margo Seltzer - CTO of SleepyCat software, Berkeley DB
• Craig McClanahan - Struts and JavaServer Faces, Sun Microsystems