My first conference
Friday, September 26th, 2008Being a developer at my place of work definitely has it perks. I get to spend most of my days surrounded by brilliant and helpful people that truly love what they do and who are enthusiastic about sharing what they know. No matter what question I have, there is always someone I can ask. Who [...]
Mainframed?
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Some weeks ago, one of my co-workers expressed frustration that her attempts at trying to convince a company to send employees to the JAOO conference had failed. The guys there are doing AS/400 mainframe programming and didn’t really have any interest in going to Aarhus for the 3 JAOO days, probably because JAOO doesn’t feature [...]
A Taxonomy of IT Conferences
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008JAOO is under a month away, so it’s time to check the schedule and think about what to see. It should be, anyways, but we all know that it won’t happen until 5 minutes before the first session. However, when the time comes, there will be some difficult decisions to be made – whether to [...]
JAOO 2008: Format Changes
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Introducing half-day tracks and long-talks
One of the new things in our 2008 conferences (Brisbane, Sydney and Århus) is that we’re modifying the format slightly. For many years we’ve run very stringently in full day tracks, each track having one specific topic and being located in one specific room for the entire day. We [...]
Ready to Roll
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008We’re ready to roll the new JAOO Community blog. In the next couple of months we will be releasing some video material that we have been working on for a while. Among these are a series of interviews, and a boat load of video footage from sessions in the conferences we’ve been running the last [...]