Ask a DevDays attendee anything

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.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/11/05.html

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.