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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
DDD6 Review
On Saturday I attended the 6th of the DDD days held at Microsoft campus in Reading. This was my first DDD, although I have attended a WebDD and the recent SQLBits day this year.
The day was again broken into 5 sessions, with 4 streams. The sessions I attended were:
I was pleased with my session choice and gained lots from all the speakers. I combined some talks that I knew aspects about (like the Continuous Integration one) with those that I'd not come across before (ASP.NET dynamic data controls - which look really handy for admin sites etc, and Astoria). I had to do a swift session swap for session 3 as I'd sat myself down ready to learn about Business apps with WPF with Oliver Sturm when he mentioned it was part 2 and I'd misread the agenda. Still, I got to learn about astoria which was really interesting and sounds really useful. My final session of the day was silly yet fun as Dave and Richard led a mass schwag giveaway hosting a game of "A question of swag" followed by a game of "Swaggity Swag".
The schwag bag wasn't great, consisting of just a pen - not even a notebook this time - but the hour of free training that innerworkings provided is a great gift to come away with.
All in all, another great developer conference and an opportunity to catch up with some familiar faces from the previous days.
The day was again broken into 5 sessions, with 4 streams. The sessions I attended were:
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data Controls with Dave Sussman
- Cruise Control.NET (retitled in the presentation as Continuous Integration) with Paul Lockwood
- Microsoft Codename "Astoria" with Guy Smith-Ferrier
- What is Scrum? with Richard Fennell
- Swaggily Fortunes with Richard Costall and Dave McMahon
I was pleased with my session choice and gained lots from all the speakers. I combined some talks that I knew aspects about (like the Continuous Integration one) with those that I'd not come across before (ASP.NET dynamic data controls - which look really handy for admin sites etc, and Astoria). I had to do a swift session swap for session 3 as I'd sat myself down ready to learn about Business apps with WPF with Oliver Sturm when he mentioned it was part 2 and I'd misread the agenda. Still, I got to learn about astoria which was really interesting and sounds really useful. My final session of the day was silly yet fun as Dave and Richard led a mass schwag giveaway hosting a game of "A question of swag" followed by a game of "Swaggity Swag".
The schwag bag wasn't great, consisting of just a pen - not even a notebook this time - but the hour of free training that innerworkings provided is a great gift to come away with.
All in all, another great developer conference and an opportunity to catch up with some familiar faces from the previous days.
// posted by Jane @ 6:28 PM 
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
DDD6
DDD6 will be held at the Microsoft Campus on the 24th November, and it's full already although apparently they're still accepting waitlist registrations.
This will be my first DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day, but if WebDD and SQLBits are anything to go by I'll learn lots and be inspired.
This will be my first DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day, but if WebDD and SQLBits are anything to go by I'll learn lots and be inspired.
Labels: conference, DDD6, event
// posted by Jane @ 9:35 PM
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