DevWeek.
I've had the
chance to participate together with a
colleague in the DevWeek .Net conference
in London, UK, for the last 2 years.
And it is
therefore really great to be able to
write, that we are going to DevWeek
conference again this year. So this is
going to be our 3rd. straight DevWeek
conference. This years DevWeek Conference
runs from March 11. to 13, 2008.
I'm really
looking forward to going to the DevWeek
conference, and hear those "behind
the scenes" stories, that you get
from the speakers. - Behind the scenes,
because DevWeek is an independant
conference, not directly sponsered by
Microsoft.
Sometimes it is
reasuring to hear, that even Microsoft
has to face those all too familiar
problems with deadlines, complex .Net
code having been written by someone who
isn't employed anymore, errors in code,
etc.
An at DevWeek
there are some really competent speakers,
and it gives you a boost to go to such a
conference. I have used those boost to
get my different sites up and running in
.Net environments.
I'll take some
pictures, and make a blog entry when I'm
back from the DevWeek conference. - And
if you're going, please send me an email
- and maybe we'll meet at the
conference...
Notes after the Devweek
conference:
As always, it was
inspiring to visit the Devweek conference
in London. This years conference was held
at the Barbican Center, and my collegue
and I stayed at a hotel, not too far
away.
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Picture from the
key note opening speach at
Devweek. As always, Dave
Wheeler is an enthusiastic and a
very lively and entertaining
speaker.
We are
not going to -write-
applications, but rather -create-
application. Meaning, I as a
programmer probably do not have
the skills to make attractive
internet applications.
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This year, many
sessions were focused on web
applications; ajax and Silverlight. And
Dave Wheeler focused a lot on Silverlight
- with his point being, that programmers
write code, and "artists" write
the user interface - and Visual Studio
makes it possible to combine those two
different sets of skills.
Other sessions at
Devweek reminded us, that more than 90%
of daily application use, is still in
-normal- Windows forms applications, like
Word, Excel, etc. - So even though
there's a lot of momentum in web based
applications, there are problems there as
well, even though technologies like Ajax
and Silverlight tries to make web based
applications better.
Another noteable
speaker at Devweek is Jeff Prosise. Calm,
very knowledgeable - combined with humor
- makes Jeff one of the great speakers at
Devweek.
All in All, it
was (again) a great trip to London and
the Devweek conference - How I love that
city !
Category:
Systems, Date: 2008-February-22, By: Rene
M. Plambek
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