So, I am at the NoFluffJustStuff conference this weekend in Des Moines. It is really interesting to finally meet some of the people who have affected my development style. I went to Dave Thomas’s wonderful talk on development teams called Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep, which Matt Payne recommended on his blog. Fantastic.
I also met and talked with Venkat Subramaniam, of Agile Developer. I have never met a better speaker. I thouroughly enjoyed his talks - Test First Development, Prudent OO, and Agile Development. In fact, I skipped the sessions on Ruby to continue to hear his topics.
Matt Payne has raved about this conference to me before, and after the first one and a half days, I completely agree. In fact, I have been talking with Scott Davis about getting one of these conferences in Omaha. I’ll be bringing this up at the JUG meeting on Tuesday. I’ve also talked with the head of the Central Iowa JUG , as well as Scott (who is (was?) prez of djug) about how to successfully run a JUG. It sounds like we are doing somethings right, but have some room for improvement.
This is the first conference that I have ever attended, though with all of the blogs and pics that come out of conferences such as PDC and JavaOne, I think I can safely say that this is a much more focused conference. No marketing deptartments here.
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