I’ve had the opportunity to attend several conferences. Some were OK, but most of time, I feel like I could have learned a lot more from reading a book or 2. The worst example was VSLive. It cost my company several thousand dollars to send me and I feel like I came away with virtually no new information. At a recent Visual Studio "launch...
In your opinion, what's the best technical conference for developers? What conferences have you attended, and what did you like about them/not like about them? I attended MS TechEd this year and learned a fair amount, but I'm interested in alternatives. Edit: I'm mostly interested in .net technologies, but I'd like to hear about other t...
There are a large number of software development conferences held around the world every year, but I've yet to find a website that contains anything approaching a comprehensive list of them all. Does anyone know of one? I'm particularly interested in conferences held in the US or UK for Microsoft products or technologies, as well as co...
I am planning to attend my first developer conference (Microsoft TechDays 2008 in Toronto). I have been looking around for suggestions so that I can prepare and make the most out of my first developer conference. Many articles make suggestions about asking questions, getting involved, being social. These are great! I am also wonderin...
One thing I love about ruby is that all of the conference's videos are posted online , so that people that could not attend can watch them. I'm sure most of you know about Confreaks , which offers them for download. Are there sites like that for other programming languages/conferences (or is google video the best shot)? ...
I am curious to know what people consider the best conference to go to for each realm of development languages. For instance, in the .NET world, there is DevConnections and Alt.NET. The DevConnections conferences are pretty good, but I learn so much more from Alt.NET and Continuous Improvement conferences. ...
My company allows me to visit one international work related (I'm Java/JEE Developer/Technical Lead interested in polyglot programming) conference each year. I've visited JavaOne and Javapolis (devox?) in the past. For next year I'm looking for a conference which is less technology but a bit more methodology focussed... possible like J...
I would think that in this age of social software that it would be easier to network socially around a software conference. Here's the particular problem I'm trying to solve: In past PDCs I've run into a large number of my fellow Orthodox Jews and it turns out everyone is praying in his own hotel room because nobody ever organized anythi...
I see lots of advertisements for cool looking conferences based on the latest web technologies on tech-ey sites all the time, but they all seem to be based in the USA - which is too far away to justify the expense :( So, does anyone know of some cool/fun/interesting events for web developers occurring in the UK? Or any sites that would l...
I am interested in hearing which conferences you have attended that you feel covers the right material for a person who designs and develops websites? just in case you need to know what i design/develop in: html/css, php, mysql. I work in higher ed and administration is more in tune w/ sending their employees to higher ed conferences, ...
Well, it has been a few years since I last travelled to a programmers conference. Back then, the power brick for my laptop was as heavy as the whole laptop is nowadays. So, the laptop was about the only thing I took with me into the conference. That means, I have no idea, if it makes sense to fill the space available in my bag with some...
I recently attended the QCon 2008 (http://qconsf.com/conference) international software developer conference in San Francisco and was very pleased with the quality of the speakers - and the quality of discussions that were participated in by the other attendees. One aspect of the conference that was a very pleasant surprise: the percent...
Delphi is currently ranked as the 10th most popular language (Dec 2008) and has approximately 1.75 million users worldwide. So why were there so few people at the CodeRage III virtual conference put on last week by Embardero? I really enjoyed the sessions I was at, but many were attended by fewer than 100 people. Even Marco Cantu's tal...
Does anyone maintain, or is there a good web resource, which offers a comprehensive conference list of interest to Software Engineering professionals? If there isn't a unified list, is there anything close? A site which covers the good ones, or alot of conferences? The goal is to plan out as far ahead as possible, and pick the "best t...
For the last 8 years or so I've been making a point to attend PDC. This past year I did not feel that I got nearly as much out of the conference then I have in years past. I think mainly this was because I'm still trying to learn the new technologies introduced during the last PDC, and I felt I spent most of my time searching for good co...
I missed the seemingly great Devoxx conference in Belgium while living just a 100km away. Is there a good(technology related) conference overview somewhere on the web so I will stop missing those events? ...
Hi, The company I work for as kindly agreed to pay for me to go to Spring Exchange 2009 in London. I've never been able to go to something like this before due to the cost aspect, so I have no idea what to expect from the day. What should my general expectations be, apart from lots of talking about Spring of course! ...
The team I work with attended the SuperComputing Convention last November, but it was geared far more towards hardware then application and algorithms. We would like to find a convention for us to attend that caters towards the algorithmic and implementation side of things. We have found this convention, but I haven't seen any press on ...
I'm a software developer at a large insurance company in Canada. Our dept. is looking at getting some training for us all. We are mostly a java group (JSF/JSP/Servlets) but obviously we use a lot of other web technologies (tiles, ajax, YUI ...etc). The main topics we're looking at are: JSF AJAX Web security Advanced Java/EE topics ...
Which SQL Server conference has the most performance, tuning, advanced feature presentations that never fail to inform and amuse and has great food at lunch. EDIT: Can you talk a little about your experience there? ...