DevTeach
What happens in DevTeach...
Tends to leave lasting impressions.
You might have noticed that I have been sort of quite lately, I have been in DevTeach last week, and I more or less had zero time to do anything that wasn't actually DevTeach. I can honestly say that this is, hands down, one of the conferences that I most enjoyed period.
We spent so much time in the Hotel's bar that the bartenders knew us all by name.
I don't think that I can really do justice to the last week with any recap, let me just point out that most of it was recorded on Twitter,...
Dev Teach Vancouver & ALT.Net Canada
In a very few weeks, I am going to spend some time in my favorite north America conference, DevTeach. It is my favorite for several reason, great attendees, great organization, great speakers line up, and an always interesting occurrences. Thankfully, no one published the real pictures from the last one :-) This time, in addition to all the nice features that are usually part of DevTeach, we also have the bonus of having ALT.Net Canada happening in the weekend directly after DevTeach. This means that I am going to be having throughout the week. As an aside, I...
DevTeach Montreal
In a few weeks, I am going to my 4th DevTeach conference. I am going to talk about Advanced IoC, Advanced OR/M and writing Domain Specific Languages. I am not the only one there, and looking at the agile & architecture track, I know that I am going to be busy. Just take a look. Oh, and just to sweeten the deal, you get a whole bunch of software (VS 2008 Pro, Expression Web & the Tech Ed DVD set) when you come. This DevTeach is going to me my second one in Montreal, and I am looking forward...
DevTeach Summary
Well, DevTeach Toronto is over, and so it my blogging hiatus. I haven't had time to blog because there was so much to do and take part of.
Now that it is officially over, I can look back and say that DevTeach is still my favorite conference. Leaving aside the great speaker and talk line up (thanks James, and thanks Scott for doing it on the last two DevTeach confs), what I really like about DevTeach is the interaction with the attendees and the amount of face to face time that you get with everyone. I haven't been able to crack...
DevTeach: Home Grown Production System Monitoring and Reports
That was an interesting talk, Owen Rogers talked about how to setup an Operation Database in order to get more visibility on your production system. This is the first time that I sat in a talk that is a "Release It!" influenced talk, and it was very interesting.
The type of Operation Database is focused on adding more information for the developers, rather than exposing more information to the operation team. What was especially interesting is that the amount of data being capture is very small. The standard log data (time, message, exception, etc) and a command log, which I think...
DevTeach Toronto
In about two weeks, I'll be speaking at DevTeach again. The last two times were enough to recharge me for months afterward, and I am looking forward to it.
I am giving several talks there.
Advance IoC - The use of advance means that I get to assume that I don't need to deal with intro stuff, so I am going to try to cram anything from generic specialization to aspect orientation to hierarchical containers and infrastructure ignorant applications. Success metric: people coming out of the talk saying "my head hurts".
OR/M += 2 - OR/M is no longer on the edge, it...
DevTeach Summary
I came, I rejuvenated, I went away happy. I won't get into the specifics, but both DevTeach conferences were the highlight of the year for me. Just interacting with all the people that came there was a pure pleasure. I am talking about far more than just the speakers, the people that came to Dev Teach were a lot of fun to talk to. Just a few more memorable moments: Avish, I think that you are the only person that I know who would think that the expectation management in Rhino Mocks is the complex part, instead of the runtime...
Off to dev teach
See you there in about 20 hours or so, if I'll manage to get through this with my sanity intact. I am going to be at the Party with Palermo, I'll meet you there.