Excellent! Gj
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:09 AM, mark stephens < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, I attended DevFest Istanbul conference with my colleague > Georgia Ingham. We did a talk on NetBeans and also had a stand where we > talked all day to attendees. > > DevFest was originally a Google conference but has expanded - Microsoft > was a main sponsor at the Istanbul event (which is 5 tracks and 1200 > attendees). Most of the attendees are university students learning coding. > > There were lots of questions for us on Android (as you would expect at a > google event) but also a wide range of other questions (NetBeans with Maven > and Subversion, Typescript, Java, PHP and a significant interest in > Kotlin). There also seemed to be less Eclipse users and more Intellij users > this year. We met lots of people who had heard of NetBeans and a nice > selection of actual users (on not only Java but PHP and other languages). A > significant number were not up to speed on latest developments and the > Apache move and we were able to enlighten them. > > There is an active debate on tools and technologies going on and attending > an event like this is a really good way to be in that conversation and > promote NetBeans. There was also plenty of socialising and a chance to talk > to the other speakers - I believe the party finally finished at 4am….. > > You can see our picture report at https://blog.idrsolutions.com/ > 2017/11/devfest-istanbul-2017-through-pictures/ and the official DevFest > Istanbul site is at https://devfest.istanbul > > Istanbul is an amazing city if you ever get the change to visit. > > Kind Regards, > > MArk > > >
