Tomorrow, October 7, I’ll be headed to the StackOverflow DevDays in Boston. I’m especially excited to see Joel Spolsky and Miguel de Icaza.

I’ve been a fan of Joel’s insights, even if I don’t always agree. In my senior year of college, I received a copy of his book, The Best Software Writing I as an interview gift. In that book, Joel pulls together some great articles written by a very diverse group of people, all bringing their own insight to the world of software. When I began doing interviews from the “other side of the table”, I also found Smart and Gets Things Done to be a great read. Joel will be presenting on his company’s primary product FogBugz.

At the end of the day, Miguel will be presenting on something to do with Mono. Because Mono is such a “giant universe”, Miguel has solicited feedback as to which Mono topic should be the focus. I’m interested to hear about MonoTouch¹ and Mono.Simd. There are a lot of value-added ways in which Mono differentiates itself, yet compliments, the .NET framework from Microsoft; I’m looking forward to hearing about the future of these and more developments.

Other topics to be presented include Python, the iPhone, ASP.NET MVC, and JavaScript testing. Although it’s late, if you feel inclined, tickets can still be obtained for the event ($99 each), and registration is at 0800. WiFi is also being provided free of charge, so I’ll probably post an update during the event.

I’ll be bringing along my camera to take some photos, which I’ll be posting on Flickr after the event². If you see me around, feel free to introduce yourself or pose for a picture.

UPDATE: My first batch of pictures is now up. Check them out on my Flickr account and read my photographs article.

1. Think the Mono/.NET framework and C# brought to the iPhone and iPod Touch. [↩]
2. Right now, you’ll only see a picture of Lucy, my cat, from when she was a kitten. [↩]

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