I enjoy seminars, conferences etc. Whether presenting or attending, chosen carefully, they provide a great way of sparking interest in new methods and technologies, putting aside some time for training/education (essential if you work for yourself as I do) and meeting other like-minded individuals.
Here are a couple of upcoming events I’ve recently registered for:
SPA-237 - Agile Adoption Anti-PatternsWednesday 3rd March 2010 6.30pm, at the BCS in London
Presenter: James Lewis, ThoughtWorks
“… focuses on the things that you shouldn't do when trying to introduce Agile practices to an organisation”
This is a free evening session and is being presented by James Lewis from the well respected consultancy Thoughtworks. I’m a big fan of Agile approaches, but there are issues you have to watch out for and hopefully this event will get some of these aired.
DevWeek 2010
15th to 19th March 2010, London
The conference blurb… “DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, WCF 4, Visual Studio 2010, REST, Windows Workflow 4, Thread Synchronization, ASP.NET 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, LINQ, Unit Testing, CLR & C# 4.0, .NET Patterns, WPF 4, F#, Windows Azure, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Debugging, T-SQL Tips & Tricks, and more”
I’ve been to one of these previously and from what I remember they are slick and very well organised, with the sessions containing some great material. Although clearly Microsoft centric, if you use (or intend to use) such technologies, you could do a lot worse than attend this.
