What do conferences and real estate have in common? Location, location, location. :-)
I really want to encourage everyone to look into hosting your own ColdFusion DevCamp in your local area. Last year the UG in San Fran put on a wonderful one-day event that attracted existing and first-time developers. Adobe has budget to support these local one-day free-form events if you are interested in organizing one. You can read more about the one in SF here: http://www.cfdevcamp.org/page.cfm/about-cfdevcamp -Adam On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mike Chabot <[email protected]> wrote: > > The best conference I have been to is Microsoft Tech-Ed North America. > It is widely considered to be one of the best technology conferences > in the world. For many people it is the one conference they go to in a > year. > > I often ask people what they think the best technology conferences are > and the two most common answers I hear are #1 Microsoft Tech-Ed North > America and #2 Microsoft PDC. > > In addition to CF and Flex, I work heavily with Microsoft products, > like SQL Server, SSIS, ASP.NET, Reporting Services, etc, so the > Microsoft conferences have a lot of appeal to me. If you don't work > with any MS products, then the MS conferences would be mostly > irrelevant to you. Some other notable MS-related conferences are Mix, > SQL Pass, VSLive, DevTeach, and DevConnections. DevConnections is > great for SQL Server since the database track is run by the SQLSkills > team, who are arguably the best SQL Server trainers in the industry. > I've personally learned a lot from the sessions taught by Kimberly > Tripp and Paul Randall. > > To give you a sense of scale, a large conference like NAB or CES can > involve over 100,000 attendees and staff, Tech-Ed has around 10,000 > attendees, MAX has around 5,000 attendees, and CFUnited has around 500 > attendees. > > I am going to CFUnited in a couple weeks, although for me it is a > relatively short drive from where I live. > > If one of your main goals is to learn the new CF 9 features, I think > the best sources are the manual, the developers guide, and the various > white papers, articles and blog posts, all of which are free. > > Check out this list of conferences. > > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/21/web-conferences-roundup-events-from-around-the-globe/ > > Have fun! > > -Mike Chabot > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335401 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
