I find going to conferences worth the time. Luckily so does the company I work for. Since no new VFP efforts will be started in the company, SW Fox is no longer justifiable. I just got back from DevLink in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I got to spend some time with new people, learned some information about .NET and ideas about how I could better code my VFP work using ideas from Functional languages like F#. Alan Stevens, a former VFP coder that does .NET and Ruby development these days, is an enthusiastic presenter that doesn't talk about code anymore. He talks about soft skills. How to better communicate with clients is one of them. One of his statements, when he was talking about the skill level as a developer, went something like this. "You're here at this conference because you are wanting to go to the next step." That's true for me. There were several sessions where I heard the speakers say, program in a different paradigm. It helps you program in your language better. If you work in an OOP language all the time, try something like Ruby or Python, or a Functional language like F# or Scala.
As for CONS, Matt Jarvis covered them well. Enjoy it! Tracy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sytze de Boer Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 9:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SW Fox 2012 Opinions Friends For many years, I have wanted to attend a conference such as the SW Fox 2012 For me, this is a very long trip, and airfares alone as substantial. In your opinion, are these conferences worth while. -- Kind regards Sytze de Boer Kiss Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
