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DR. DOBB’S ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN WORLD 2008 JULY 21-24, 2008 | CHICAGO, IL KEYNOTES LEARNING THE SECRET HANDSHAKE—10 THINGS AN ARCHITECT DOES Michael Rosen, CTO, Wilton Consulting Group MONDAY, JULY 21 | 5:30 PM–6:30 PM It seems that everyone has heard of IT architects, and many people have the title, yet few people seem know what an architect really does and how that adds value to the organization. This keynote walks the audience through 10 things an architect does and the skills needed to accomplish them. The list includes: Inquire, integrate, analyze, conceptualize, abstract, visualize, formalize, communicate, enable and assist. What does an architect do? What skills do they need? How do they add value? HACKERNOMICS Herbert (Hugh) Thompson, Ph.D., Chief Security Strategist, People Security THURSDAY, JULY 24 | 12:15 PM–1:15 PM Legislation, financially driven attackers and high profile breaches have changed the economics of security. As software developers and designers, we need to rethink the motivations of attackers and the new attacker economy given a growing stolen identity information trade and the rise of organized electronic crime. We need to study “hackernomics”, the social science concerned with description and analysis of attacker motivations, economics and business risk. In this presentation Dr. Thompson vividly illustrates the laws of hackernomics and looks at how to think like an attacker. Warning: there will be live exploits; software will be harmed during this presentation! MODELING STRATEGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, AND TECHNIQUES: TRADITIONAL VS. AGILE Scott W. Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Terry Quatrani, UML Evangelist, IBM TUESDAY, JULY 22 | 12:15 PM–1:15 PM Over the past few decades the IT industry has developed a range of approaches for modeling and documentation. Structured approaches. Data-driven approaches. Process-driven approaches. Objectoriented approaches. Unified approaches. Domain-specific approaches. Serial approaches. Agile approaches. Although the list goes on, all of these modeling approaches seem to struggle in practice -regardless of how great they sound in theory. In this keynote Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani explore the issues and risks surrounding modeling and documentation on IT projects, juxtaposing the traditional and agile lines of thought around this critical topic. Isn't it time we finally explored this topic in a coherent and meaningful manner? NETWORKING EVENTS Interact with a select group of your peers and industry leaders at evening Happy Hours and Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. More details available at www.drdobbsarchworld.com. REGISTER TODAY AT WWW.DRDOBBSARCHWORLD.COM http://www.drdobbsarchworld.com http://WWW.DRDOBBSARCHWORLD.COM

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - July 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook Engineers Without Borders Conversations Patricia Tries Event-Based Architectures Graphs Versus Objects Lock-Free Queues Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World Java and the Nokia N10 Internet Tablet Effective Concurrency The Agile Edge Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - July 2008

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