This is sort of a rushed post as I am leaving on long vacation for the first time in many years. So you will not hear from me in a month (as it it was the first time and you minded :-p)
Last day of the conference (I still attended the post-conference). My brain was still operative after 3 days of squeezing it, and what a way of pushing it on for another day!!
Sleeping like a baby but still being excited enough to wake up earlier is one of the greatest feelings that I experience in this sort of conferences. That and not having to vacuum-clean the floor for a whole week. Aaah, those little pleasures in live...
Boy, do the organizers know how to choose the guys speaking at the keynote.
Not only Tim Huckaby (not a great technical blog, though) was extremely amusing and has a great background, but he also did a superb job to sell how great applications his company develops.
... with IOC container and ORMs.
Long title for the very first day. And one that gives me the thrills I must admit.
Yes, I am on my way already to the 2009 Edition of DevTeach. I enjoyed so much last year and the agenda looked so promising that I decided to come back, and the fact that is held in Vancouver makes it even more appalling to me as I have not been to this city before.
It's been a long (and maybe boring I can give you that) series of entries on the matter. I wanted it to be like this. Writing helps me fixing the concepts and if reading it amuses anyone else besides me, that's a double target hit.
It's time to wrap-up and I'll try to do it briefly (and by now you should be aware that I am not very good at it):
I was even more eager to attend this one than the previous last session. And to be perfectly honest with you, I got the same results, disappointment in the first degree.
How can you get disappointment out of a TDD session with Jean Paul Boodhoo and Scott Belware? I ask myself the same same question and I am starting to get it just now. I'll try to clarify myself.
And by now you are wishful that I wouldn't have gone there, so I could shut up for a moment. But I do not change plans for the audience...
Oddly enough day two did not suck all of my energy off. And the last conference day was full of really interesting sessions to pick from.
Day two was a bit too long and it was going to get lengthier if I included the extra session as well.
Soooo, yes, there was an extra session.
Brain rested and hungry of content, he (male organ; flame on, girls) and the rest of my body headed onto the second day of the conference which promised to be a long, long day.
Boy, is it great to be here.
Getting up in the morning (early because my body misunderstanding of day and night), having a stand-up breakfast with a bunch of strangers and getting your butt ready for hours of sitting and you ears open for the torrent of information they are going to get.
After a more than pleasant and straightforward registration, the organization was kind enough to allow me change the session I was booked.
Yep, this week, my employer told me that they heard my pleading and they are "taking" me to DevTeach.