Devreach 2010

The 5th edition of Devreach was again excellent - so many world-class speakers, who are passionate about development.

I visited the following sessions:

Anti-Corruption Layers by Donlad Belcham, Level200

What's New in WCF 4 by Miguel Castro, Level 200

Kanban and Scrumban by Joel Semeniuk, Level 200

Leveraging Client Capabilities with jQuery in Visual Studio by Robert Boedigheimer, Level 300

Dynamic State Storage Using the ASP.NET Provider Model by Miguel Castro, Level 300

Customizing TFS to Your Needs by Joel Semeniuk, Level 300

Deep dive into Load Testing features in Visual Studio 2010 by Martin Kulov, Level 300

Worst Practices and Anti-Patterns of Software by Steven Smith, Level 200

Automated Testing in the Agile Environment by Christopher Eyhorn, Level 300

I have to say that none disappointed me – most of them were both informative and entertaining. Altough there were 5 parallel streams of lectures for each time slot (Presentation Layer, Data Layer, Business Layer, Best Practices, Architecture) the titless that grabbed my interest were usually just one or two.

I am not sure how much value the information from this conference would bring to my work, but at least it is refreshing to hear (or get remineded) about various practices, approaches, technologies and fantasize how they might help you in you everyday job.