Sharing Knowledge, the Spirit of Øredev

Øredev means both Quality and Quantity, by bringing the best speakers and expert practitioners on a broad range of subjects. With a low ratio of only 10 conference participants to each expert speaker, Øredev is a unique event that delivers real exchanges of ideas. "Birds-of-a feather", or "chalk talks" after each learning session, allow you to dig deeper into your topic. After Øredev, all the videos of the sessions you've attended, will be posted online!

Squeeze your brain, pass the quiz!

1. What is Google buzz?

Brad Neuberg, software engineer at Google on the Buzz team will give a presentation: HTML5: WebDevelopment to the next level.

2. What is the scope of local variables in Javascript?

3. We made up which one of the following idioms:

4. Neo4j is an open-source graph database, implemented in:

Learn everything about non-relational database systems during Øredev nosql day.

5. Who founded Atari?

Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo and Jack Tramiel founded Commodore. NOLAN BUSHNELL founded Atari and will tell us about: The ten mega software projects for the next 20 years.

6. Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006 for:

In the Discover the Obvious session, Steve Jennings will tell us why we must use technology to put business at the service of humanity and make the world brighter, better and healthier.

7.What event strategy is NOT used in Silverlight for event handling?

Comment: Tunneling event routing is not used in Silverlight but in WPF.

8.Java code

String s = "ASTRING";
s.toLowerCase();
System.out.println(s);

What will this snippet print?

Comment: Because strings are immutable.

9. What does POJO stand for?

10. Which of the following languages does NOT use the JVM as a platform?

11. Balsamiq is a company ...…

Giacomo Peldi Guilizzoni, founder and CEO of Balsamiq, previously worked at Macromedia and Adobe, will come and tell us the Balsamiq success story.

12. Which company first played a key role in the development of cloud computing?

13. Enabling extension points from your .NET app has always been a challenge. What is the easiest way to do so?

14. Which of the following is an open source application server project led by Oracle for the Java EE platform?

Check Arun Gupta works at Oracle and will give talks about: Using the latest Java Persistence API 2.0 features and Deep Dive hands-on in Java EE 6

15. Qt is a famously cross-platform C++ framework. Android is a famous Java-based platform layered on top of the Linux OS.

Putting them together was almost "mission impossible".
What is the name of the Qt research project that provided the level of abstraction needed to make this possible?

Check Ivan De Marino's session: Qt on Android aka " I can't be asked to rewrite it in java"

16. Ayende Rahien is the author of one of the most popular mocking framework on the .NET platform which is:

Check Ayende Rahien's session: Scaling Applications: Complexity, performance, maintainability

17. Which of the following is NOT the steps in the life-cycle of a Windows Azure Worker Role?

18. When you want multiple implementations to behave according to the same ordered steps what pattern do you apply?

19. Which of these javascript statements evaluate as true?

20. In Ruby, if a=1 and b=2 what are they after a,b = b,a?

21. Who is this man?

They will all come to Øredev on the web development track on thursday

22. JRockit is:

JRockit. Hotspot. Complete, session held by Mikael Vidstedt, consulting member of technical staff at Oracle.

23. It is a scheduling system that tells you what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce:

It’s just a white board! How can it possibly work? Jim Benson incorporates his background in cognitive psychology, government, and management to build community through policy, technology, and collaboration. Check how to promote the individual effectiveness intrinsic to team success.

24. Which of the following is NOT a role in a Windows Azure App deployment:

Comment: However, a Web Role of either kind can host and run PHP under full trust.

25. It is a software project management and comprehension tool:

Matthew McCullough will tell you how to build better with Apache Maven!

26. What's the name of the open source program created by William Pugh which looks for bugs in Java code:

William Pugh is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He joined Maryland in 1988, after receiving a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Check is presentation Defective Java: Mistakes that matter

27. Who is this man?

Well, anyway, we'll bring them all to you at Øredev on the Agile track

28. What's the prefix for Foundation classes in Cocoa?

Outside of Apple, there are very few people with a better understanding of Core Data than Marcus Zarra. And what a luck he comes to Øredev! He has not only written the book on Core Data, he has been doing iPhone, and now iPad, development as long as it has been possible to do so, and Mac programming for even longer. Check Marcus sessions

29. Which of these is an open source JCE provider?

30. How to write readable tests, with 10x less code for Android?

Easy Black-box testing for Android by Hugo Josefson and Renas Reda

31. What is the java virtual machine running?

If you want to learn more about it, check out Charles Oliver Nutter: JVM Bytecode for dummies …

32. JDK Stands for:

The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking the JDK

33. Why Cocoa?

This is why it's called "cocoa". Evan Doll worked at Apple for the past six years on products including the iPhone and iPad, come and ask him if this is the truth

34. Is the JavaScript programming language supported on iPhone?

35. Which of the following classes is related to concurrency in Cocoa?

36. Which of the following features was introduced in Android 2.2?

37. How many versions of Android SDK was released during 2009 (not revisions)?

Comment: (Android 1.5 April 2009, Android 1.6 September 2009, Android 2.0 October 2009 and Android 2.0.1 December 2009)

38. Which of the following classes are not an Android Application Component?

For those times when the Android API doesn't do what you want, or doesn't do it fast enough, you can always get down-and-dirty with C/C++. Check Michael Jennings session

39. On Android each application uses a separate Dalvik Virtual Machine ?

40. Which of these three alternatives is not valid Scala syntax?

Check the session from Lennart Jörelid on effective JEE Entities with Scala.

41. What is 'Akka'?

Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors, check Jonas Bonér creator of Akka session

42. Which of these four alternatives contains invalid syntax when sending a message to an actor in Akka?

Comment: There is no !!!!

43. Which company introduced the Android platform to the world:

But speaking' of NASA… Check the Keynote from Dr. Norris, who leads the organization at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab responsible for the software and mission control personnel that command robotic spacecraft including the Mars rovers and more than a dozen other missions to destinations throughout the solar system.

44. In late 2008, the two biggest frameworks existing in the Ruby community decided to merge and announced the beginning of a series of efforts from where would emerge Rails 3.0 which are these two frameworks:

Session: Rails 2.3, 3.0 and 3.1: Past, Present and Future
José Valim is the lead-developer and co-founder of Plataforma Tec and a member of the Rails Core Team

45. Do you recognize this man?

They will ALL be at Øredev. If your passion is patterns, check this out!

46. TDD Stands for:

Follow Robert C. Martin in his session "The three laws of TDD"

47. Which of the following is NOT a programming language?

Comment: It's crazy but Yes, they are all programming languages!

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