One of the nice thing about the Øredev conference is that it is not only a conference about technology, but also about humanity and how technology is changing our lives. Below are some of my favorite sessions from last week.

Javascript

A hot subject right now, and one that brings the Java and .NET communities together. I did a full day tutorial/workshop on AngularJS with Zach Briggs.

• The world is terrible, lets talk about the web – James Mickens

This session is close to what I imagine that listening to Chris Rock doing a gig on Javascript would be like.

• AngularJS 2.0 – Rob Eisenberg

• Ember components make my heart sing – John K. Paul

• ES6: Getting ready for Javascript vnext – Justin Beckwith

Security

Two really interesting sessions that make me wanna strap the tinfoil even tighter around my head.

• Confessions of an accidental security tester – Alan Richardson

• Security for developers – Sebastian Olsson, Emil Kvarnhammar

Internet of Things

• Wearable apps that people want – Kevin Grant

• The wearable application server – Holly Cummins

• IoT magic show – Stephen Chin

Continuous Delivery and Devops

Getting developers and operations together is all the rage, and there is a lot of talk about tools like Vagrant and Docker.

• Continuous delivery for architects – Neal Ford

• Amazing log management with Elasticsearch – Emil Cardell

• Continuous delivery with openshift – Siamak Sadeghianfar

Functional programming

There was not that many sessions about Clojure this year, but Clojurescript seems to be gaining traction.

• Functional thinking – Neal Ford

• Clojurescript for the web – Michiel Borkent

Arts and entertainment

• About passion and collaboration – Neil Rodgers, Tony Ernst

I could not help but get starstruck listening to Neil Rodgers, doing some real impressive namedropping and laying down some funky riffs.

• Deconstructing Her – Chris Noessel

An analysis of the user interfaces in Spike Jonze’s movie.

• The most human human – Brian Christian

Do we all spend each day in a world wide Turing test?

You can find a lot more good sessions on Øredev’s Vimeo site. Go check them out!