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The web conference at the University of Illinois was an excellent event! This conference was not my normal scene. Being a web conference, the sessions covered all pertinent topics from pure design and UX all the way to distributed real-time apps and TDD. Along with the heavier design focus, this conference was outside of my normal circle of friends. In fact, I didn’t know a single other speaker or attendee before the event!
This was a great growing opportunity, and I met some very engaging personalities! I highly recommend this event.
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A couple of weeks ago I was at Nebraska Code Camp in Lincoln, NE. This was a very good event. All of the sessions I attended were excellent! In the hallway between sessions, and during the after-party, I met with some excellent individuals. The software development community is thriving in Nebraska!
After such a productive code camp, I thought I would post some highlights of the most useful and/or interesting things I have learned/re-learned. Unlike my last “what I learned” post, I am just going to include some of the highlights this time. This means you might have to think a little bit to digest these notes.
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South Florida Code Camp 2013 is now over. This was a large event on the campus of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The organizers did an excellent job, especially considering that there were about 80 speakers, over 1200 registrants, nearly 90 sessions and a blizzard in the northeast (which prevented a number of speakers from attending). A big thank you to Rainer Habermann, Dave Noderer and everyone else that was involved in making this event happen.
Since I have been attending a fair number of conferences and code camps, I have decided that it might be worthwhile for me to start sharing what I learn at these events. If this goes well, I’ll likely continue.
Here are my notes from the event. Some of these are things that I just learned. Most are things that I knew already, but enjoyed the reminder.
So here we go. What I learned (or re-learned) at South Florida Code Camp.
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