NDC 2012

The 2012 Norwegian Developer Conference takes place in Oslo 6th - 8th June in Oslo Spectrum. Amende has a stand in the venue and along with it comes a few passes which us employees can share. I signed up to go on Thursday because there was a couple of talks that really interests me. Other obvious reason for picking Thursday may include the party of music and alcohol follows the day, but I was honestly too tired to join as my brain was going through indigestion from the amount of information and ideas absorbed during the day. This is actually my first NDC or any .NET developer conference for that matter since I was a java developer in my early days, Java Zone was a more natural destination for me, I was there in 2008. Talks in the NDC varies, some may be presentation of a new idea, others maybe a cool project that they work on, there are even some workshops to present some cool features in a common technology. The talks I went to are

• Clean Architecture by Robert Martin
• Embrace the Uncertainty by Dan North
• Git and GitHub for Developers on Windows by Phil Haack
• You are in production, now what? by Tatham Oddie

  Besides going to the presentations I am also responsible to be by the Amende stand in between sessions or even during a couple of sessions. Mainly giving out souveniers to guests and encourage them to take our Amende survey for a chance to win the macbook air. It was nice to chat with different people who drops by to learn more about what they do and what they think about us. I tried to sell the idea of EasyQuest to glasspaper, but apparently one of my colleagues beat me to it. Our USB memory stick was extremely popular, that was because (as I later found out) that our memory stick has to most capacity. Comparing to 4 GB and 2 GB that was offered at other stands, ours were superior, props to us :) One thought I had regarding the giveaways of the stands, I wish they can be more original. If I ended up winning all the drawings I would indeed end up with 3 iPads! Overall I think this event is definitely worth going if one has the means and time. Not only did I learn about new technologies or get a peek inside the mind of the experts in the field, but the socializing and networking is also an important reason to show your face at such a venue. So hopefully I will get to go again next year and I hope to see you there next year.