OOPSLA 2008 Around the corner.

OOPSLA 2008 The Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications or more commonly referred to OOPSLA, annual conference is right around the corner. Oct 19th through the 23rd in Nashville, TN. I am trying to get my company to pay for me to go, but on such short notice, doubt it will happen, even so, I should be able to get paid time off to attend. This years conference is looking to be a great one. As always they have a ton of workshops and tutorials and the keynotes this year look decent. I am particularly interested in the "Building Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services" and "Test-Driven Hands On" tutorials. Those fall in to my line of work and I am always interested in seeing how others approach the same problems. As for the keynotes,  Rebecca's "What Drives Design" and Mark Dominus' "Atypical Types" both spark my interest.