I’ve recently returned from the Øredev developer’s conference in Malmo, Sweden where I had the privilege of sharing knowledge with a very eclectic group of technologists . In addition to existing trends such as language agnosticism on the JVM, Agile, and mobile proliferation I noticed 3 emerging trends that stood out. Some of the concepts will be familiar to you and while they are not drastic departures from the past, they are significant and becoming more prominent and recognizable as we near the end of 2009.
The Web Semantic
data for humans and computers and the tools that make it available