The presenters were:
Jörn Zaefferer on jQuery
Eero Bragge on Qt
Joel Spolsky on Fogbugz
Simon Willison on Python
Nick Johnson on Google App Engine
Christian Heilmann Yahoo! Developer Tools
Alex Thissen on ASP.NET-MVC
I can tell you about the content, or the presenters, or the general mood of the other attendees. Whatever interests you.
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:07
What did Simon Willison talk about?
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:07
I'll start, Who are these people and why should I care?
The Python Guy was indeed the most impressive of the bunch of presenters.
(As a disclaimer, just let me say that I already use Python but I speak it with a horrible accent. I usually use it as a scripting language to smash ASCII text files together.)
Today, I got to see a Python virtuoso at play. He got 50 minutes to present, and in 30 of them he built from the ground up an SVG heat map showing white (where no mammals are endangered) to red (where the maximum number of any country) are endangered.
And he did it all without a GUI! Just the python interpreter and some interpreter add on I had never heard of called ipython.
The guy was rocking. Rocking!
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:26
Why were the presenters only chosen among white men? Please add some diversity next time. Thank you.
>>8
Why do feminists have such a sense of entitlement?
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:32
>>8
I'm sure the mostly-male audience would appreciate having a sweet little piece of ass up there on the stage presenting something she had worked on. Sadly, the wait staff had more girls than there were in the (approximately 400 to 600 people) crowd.
So stop complaining and do something other than seducing men and pumping out babies. Except for Ada Lovelace (who gets more respect than she deserves) and Grace Hopper (who taped a moth to the ENIAC logbook while declaring her bug found), I can't think of any.
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:35
>>11 Leah made a pretty impressive division algorithm to implement a star rating system.
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:39
>>12
That, and she is currently building an empire on foursquare[1][2][3]
And who can forget the many personalities of Cudder?
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Anonymous2009-11-02 17:40
OP here. I'm pretty sure no one will ever ask this question, so I'll volunteer this info: From what I saw, Yahoo has some really nice developer tools. You can use their own interface to suck information up from all over the web and glue it into your own Frankenstein creation.
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Anonymous2009-11-02 21:10
Did the jQuery guy give any insight into why jQuery UI is such a massive steaming pile of shit?
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Anonymous2009-11-02 21:16
Did the JEW guy apologize for talking about such an unimportant topic as his non-free MS-Bugzilla?
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Anonymous2009-11-04 13:45
OP here, back for another day of fun and excitement on /prog/.
>>16
Honestly, I had never heard of jQuery before his presentation, and afterwards, I knew less about it than ever. I'm sure his presentation would have been a *wild* *success* if he was presenting to a small group of 12 motivated programmers who already knew something about it.
But to a general audience? Nooooooo.
Tell me Anon, what's the point of all of this? Can't you just do more munging of the code on the server side before you throw it out to the clients?
>>17
Ah, congratulations on completely missing the point.
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Anonymous2009-11-04 15:21
>>8
I love women and all but that shit is totally ridiculous.
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Anonymous2009-11-04 16:17
never heard of any of these people and haven't even heard of half of the technologies up there
>>18
Wait, you had never heard of jQuery before, which is actually kind of an extremely hot thing right now, yet you expect anyone to know more about Fogbugz than the fact it was made by that gay jewish self-promoting troll?
Who is this DevDays audience? They’re the elite of the elite of the best programmers out there. They’re the people who participate in Stack Overflow, the people who read, the people who are constantly trying to learn more about programming and software development. More than half of them paid their own money to attend a one day conference. They’re the most desirable software developers on the planet. And 75% of them are not delighted with their job.
That’s unacceptable. I’ve been saying for ten years that the top developers have a choice of where to work, and the top employers need to work harder to attract them, because the top developers get ten times as much work done as the average developers.
And yet, I still keep meeting ridiculously productive developers working in shitholes.
We’re going to fix this, right now. Thus, Stack Overflow Careers.
We’re going to completely turn the job market upside down, for the best software developers and the best companies.