"Team, get your passports ready you're going to QCon"
So, one of the highlights of my career was a month or so ago at the end of a standup announcing to my development team that they were off to the QCon Software Development conference. It's something I'd budgeted at the beginning of forming the team together and being a developer at my core knew would appeal to them.
I have got to say, that the instant round of smiles seconds after saying it, spoke volumes. Infact before I'd sat back down after standup, there was already a spreadsheet open of who was going to what tracks, and where the interest lay as a team (not surprisingly mobile is a hot topic!). QCon is one of those conferences that has something for everyone. Even though the team is primarily a Rails team, interest is across the broad from beautiful code, agile, big data you name it.
For all those out there building budgets for 2012... I'll let you know how it goes, the smiles did really say it all.
Alright, off to find coffee. Apparently Blue Bottle's Mint Plaza is where it's at. And if you find some dude with a kiwi accent in the Architecture sessions today, say hello. Kiwis are a friendly bunch.
