I'm running a non-profit project to raise money for young programmers so that they can attend their first big programming language specific conference. The grant would cover travel, accommodation and the conference fee. The main challenge is raising awareness amongst young programmers (who need funding) and more senior ones (who might w...
I'm wondering if there's going to be be any big Ruby conferences coming up over the next few months? I'm in NY so I'm hoping there's going to be something close by. ...
I am hoping to attend some sort of developer events, preferably Microsoft technologies, in Southern California in late 2010, but have been unable to find any information for anything that far in advance. The reason I am thinking about it this far in advance is that I would like to see if I can get my company to pay the attendance costs,...
There are several big .NET development conferences, such as VSLive, DevConnections, SD West, etc., but I am finding a lot of value in some of the smaller scale local conferences that have been cropping up over the last few years. I have enjoyed some of the smaller conferences such as devLink (http://www.devlink.net, Nashville, TN), CodeS...
Nowadays, it seems like conferences for software developers are disappearing. The last one I attended was the Tulsa TechFest and OWASP Hartford. I am curious if there are events that are not on my radar that should be? The criteria I seek: Multiple day format Speakers are practitioners, not vendors and industry analysts Under $400 In a...
I've never been to a developer Conference before, I don't know what to expect. Is it worth investing in events like this and travel 1000km. Courses and speakers seem interesting enough (O'Reilly, Wiley, Adobe...), but will all this make me better developer? ...
I have been programming for about 10 years and most of my experience is in C++, MFC, Win32. I now have a project where .NET is the thing and C# is the preferred language. This is partly due to the fact that almost all the other developers are young and grew up on .NET - and think that C++ == punch cards. I have been learning .NET, C# and...
I'm going to attend my first one OST conference (unconference) and I'm very excited. I'm looking for advice what to do to gain more experience. Should I talk about areas within I'm good at or technologies I want to know better? Any other advice? Maybe it is a little subjective question, but sometimes after fact I have feeling that with ...
The stareast conference is coming up in April of 2010 and I'm trying to make a business case for it being worthwhile to go to. Has anyone been to a past one? Was it worthwhile? Did you gain anything from it? ...
I would like personal recommendations or reviews of Accessibility conferences in the United States, and preferably the western states. What conferences would offer the most to a web developer and what skill levels are addressed. ...
I participate in a couple of OSS projects and I really want to help out in marketing them, so I thought it'd be interesting and a valuable personal experience to make a presentation/talk on one or several developer conferences. What's a good structure for presenting a technical software framework/product? Any advice on what NOT to do? S...
I'm looking for a good conference to get an introduction to some java based web frameworks. Nothing needs to get incredibly in depth, just an introduction to a wide range of frameworks or their implementations. Examples of stuff I'd like to learn more about: Grails, RESTful web services, GWT, SOFEA, Struts,Spring, Possibly some 'UI fr...
I will be attending PyCon and am thinking about attending and/or running some OpenSpace session (http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/OpenSpaces.html). Does anyone have any tips on making them successful? ...
Wondering if people who have attended DevTeach could comment on the value of the conference (e.g. well-organized, good sessions, good material, etc.). This post seems to indicate that it is not worth the money. ...
I really enjoy attending unconference/BarCamp type events and getting to meet developers, designers etc. from different backgrounds and sharing ideas in person. However, I have trouble finding events as there does not seem to be one place where they are listed. Does anyone know of such a place? I also want to setup a Google Technology...
Hi guys! I was wondering if it's possibile to create a web-client that can connect two users and then it sends their webcam stream to each other. This should happen without using Red5 or any other flash/media server. What protocol can I use? What api etc... ...
Hey all, I'm working with a team of relatively novice programmers, and we are trying to create a site that will have audio-conferencing capabilities such that whenever someone visits the page, they will immediately have audio-conferencing capabilities with everyone else on the page (5 people max). Can anyone point us in a general direc...
My employer has offered to send me to any conference I choose this year. I guess I just missed MIX. I went to VSLive last year and enjoyed it quite a bit. I've never been to PDC or TechEd so that's what I'm leaning toward. Am I missing any others? ...
Looking for a large European developer/software conference, open-source-friendly, programming-language-neutral, platform-neutral, vendor-neutral. Any recommendations? apparently there briefly used to be a Euro OSCON (2004-2006? what happened?) some good language/app-specific ones like EuroPython, EuroSciPy, DjangoCon European BarCamps ...
Now, I am really unsure how doable this is but we want to provide a platform for users to video-conference on our website - the software thus being installed on the webserver as perhaps a plug-in. We DO NOT want our users have to resort to 3rd party software (such as Skype) them selves. It needs to be a professional feel and us get all t...