Posts tagged with 'conferences'
Steve Hicks is speaking at conferences. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet.
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Mailing list: Technically Speaking by Chiu-Ki and Cate
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Cream City Code conference in Milwaukee
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Chris Gardner is organizing the DevSpace conference. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet.
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Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army post
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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is in Huntsville
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Company mentioned: Intergraph & Hexagon
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The "hallway conference" is a term referring the elements of a conference that take place outside of the normal breakout sessions. Follow-up conversations, networking, maybe even impromptu learning and hacking.
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We talked briefly about embedded development. Be sure to listen to Episode 083 with James Munns
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For another episode about conferences, be sure to check out Episode 040 with Matthew Revell
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Other conference mentioned: Code PaLOUsa and THAT Conference
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"Gaines" was also mentioned. This is Gaines Kergosien, the director of Music City Tech, where this episode was recorded.
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And last but not least, Chris’s conference: DevSpace
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Something's been weighing on my conscience this weekend, and I needed to write about it. It's probably not as big of deal as I'm making it out to be, but nevertheless...
I don't consider myself to be an A-list conference speaker. Far from it, probably. But, I enjoy speaking, meeting people, teaching, helping answer queestions, learning, coding, and so on. It's my job, really, and I think I generally do a pretty good job at it.
While I'm not the most famous speaker, best developer, or expertiest technologist, I do pride myself on one thing: I show up. If I say I'm going to be at a conference, I will be there. If I say I'm going to stand at a booth and answer questions, I'll stand at that booth and answer questions. If I say I'm going to be at a meeting, I'll be there. Sometimes to a fault (just ask my wife).
Woody Allen is not exactly at the top of my list of wise men, but he once said "Showing up is eighty percent of life". I believe this; I was raised this way. Pete Rose was far from the most talented baseball player. In terms of career OPS, he's not even in the top 500. Yet, he'll go down in history as one of the best hitters in baseball. Why? Because he showed up. He's #1 all time in games played. So, I treat every conference, every user group, like Pete Rose would treat every at bat. I don't care if there are 7 people in the audience or 700.
So this is what's weighing on my conscience. Due to some travel difficulties, I was unable to make it to the recent Beer City Code conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had to send a last minute "sorry, I can't make it" email to J. Tower (two-time guest on my podcast). J. Tower was very gracious and thanked me for letting him know. But it still bothers me. I can't remember the last conference I had to cancel out on as a speaker, and especially not the day before. And now that's it over, I think: well, what if I had made one more call, or tried one more rental car place, or what if what if what if. How could I have planned better? And, even worse, I think: what if this conference, my session would have inspired just one person to get excited about the technology I was going to present on? What if Michael Kramer hadn't shown up a conference all those years ago to talk about AOP? What if Jeff Blankenburg and others hadn't shown up to run CONDG when I was first attending? What if Alan Stevens hadn't shown up to deliver Coding in Public, which had such an impact on me?
There's not much I can really do about it now, except apologize. I'm sorry, Beer City Code, for not being there this time.
The fact is that the conference got along just fine without me, due to the hard work and dedication of the organizers and the slate of excellent speakers who did make it. So, please don't think I'm overestimating my importance. I know that I was only a tiny part of the overall experience. But knowing how hard the organizers and other speakers worked, I owe an apology, plain and simple.
Thanks for reading this!
As a small token, I wanted to (again) share my own hand-drawn version of the Beer City Code logo. Whenever I present at a conference or user group, I like to draw a version or variation of the logo, to give my slides a bit of a personal touch. I usually add a little personal tweak, like a baseball logo or some other nerdy thing. But in this case, I didn't. It's a really satisfying logo that I really like, second only (maybe) to the Azure Functions logo.
This is a special crossover episode of Cross Cutting Concerns with the Eat Sleep Code podcast, hosted by Ed Charbeneau (Microsoft MVP). This was recorded at the Stir Trek conference.
Show Notes:
- Eric Brewer: One of his recent blog posts was about Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorum
- Check out the blogs at Telerik, and check out Ed on Telerik's developer portal
- Couchcase: Github repo, blog posts
- Ed's website, EdCharbeneau.com
- Machine Learning for Developers
- This episode was published to Microsoft's Channel 9 and also Telerik's Develper Portal
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Matthew Revell talks about creating and running developer conferences.
Show Notes:
- Conferences that Matthew mentioned:
- White October Events
- Blog: DevRel
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