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Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:06

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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:13

Who really gives a flying fuck what Troll Spolsky has to say?

No, really.  How the fuck is he relevant to anything, other than having an annoying blog that is spammed incessantly on Reddit?

Never heard of those other people in my entire life so I will assume they do something equally as important as writing Troll On Software

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:21

>>2
Oh, well done Anon.  Well done! 

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!

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:26

Why were the presenters only chosen among white men? Please add some diversity next time. Thank you.

SUGGESTED READING                        
* http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women_speakers

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:27

>>8
Why men are smartest

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:29

>>8
Why do feminists have such a sense of entitlement?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:35

>>11
Leah made a pretty impressive division algorithm to implement a star rating system.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:39

>>12
That, and she is currently building an empire on foursquare[1][2][3]

--
http://twitter.com/leahculver/status/5372855169
http://twitter.com/leahculver/status/5295343022
http://twitter.com/leahculver/status/5292205341

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 17:39

And who can forget the many personalities of Cudder?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 21:10

Did the jQuery guy give any insight into why jQuery UI is such a massive steaming pile of shit?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 21:16

Did the JEW guy apologize for talking about such an unimportant topic as his non-free MS-Bugzilla?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 15:21

>>8
I love women and all but that shit is totally ridiculous.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 16:17

never heard of any of these people and haven't even heard of half of the technologies up there

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 16:33

joeloongaymen.com

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 16:41

>>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?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 17:43

So yeah, what the fuck is this jQuery bullshit?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 17:55

moar liek gayQueery amirite lulz

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 18:32

>>23
A library that makes using javascript a reasonable proposition at the expense of making a Xeon behave like a 486.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 20:49

I just read OP's post and was going to bitch about Spolsky, but fortunately >>6 already did the heavy lifting for me. Thanks, >>6-san!

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 21:18

>>26
brofist.png

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-04 23:45

>>6
He thinks sepples is a bit shit, that makes him OK in my books.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 1:47

>>28
He made a language that compiles to PHP, that makes him some sort of retarded clown in my correct opinion.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 2:19

>>29
Better to write a language that compiles to PHP, that to actually use PHP directly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 3:26

Shit, I've been doing it wrong my whole life. From now on, whenever I want to troll the fuck out of /prog/, I'll just say "Joel Spolsky".

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 5:08

>>31
RAAAAAAAAGE

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 12:19

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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 12:27

>>33

Rofl

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 12:35

>>33
10/10. I was absolutely sure it was you're creative writing until I verified.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 12:36

>>30
Except this retarded thing also targets some other retarded ms languages.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 16:30

>>33
I love Troël Spolsky.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-05 17:23

>>33
I think I like him.

Name: Joel 2009-11-05 21:19

I like /prog/riders too.

Name: Jeff 2009-11-05 23:14

I love you Joel let's have homosexual sex.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 6:26

>>40
ja;dr

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 12:19

Maybe its my're screen, but http://www.joelonsoftware.com/i/kiwiCollege.png sure looks like a bird shitting books, having a 66book ejecting anus99 as /prog/ would put it, if that makes sense.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 12:20

JEWISH FAGGOTS CAN'T PROGRAM. THAT'S SCIENCE

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 18:48

>>33
har har har har har.
as if attention whoring places such as stack overflow, digg, or reddit actually have decent programmers

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 19:38

>>44
That's the joke

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-06 19:53

>>45
yes. i know.
i'm just the kind of person that likes to repeat things (゚プ)

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 8:28

>>33
If you really are a programmer who gets paid to program, you will appreciate Joel.  His blog is a delight to read, his sites are free and awesome, and he's done more for the programming community than any of you people have.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 8:31

>>47
delight to read
indeed.
delightfully hilarious in an "i can't believe that dumb shit actually said that" way.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 8:31

>>47
gtfo jewlover faglover gay

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 10:23

>>49
lol u tk him 2da bar|?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 10:38

>>47
Go back to /stackoverflow/, Joel

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 11:38

>>51
I didn't write that; but neither is my last name Spolsky.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 11:41

JEWS

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-08 11:52

LISP

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-09 0:40

ＲＯＮ　ＰＥＮＴＯＮ

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-23 0:57

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geeklist_founders_react_badly_to_reporting_sexism
Jesus fucking christ, feminism and dictatorship would actually really go hand-in-hand.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-23 3:55

>>59
How come the main feminist, Andrea Dworkin, is a fat ugly Jewish whore with hairy face?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-23 4:19

>>59
Geeklist's co-founder (it's their slogan on the shirt) and Reuben Katz
Isn't "Katz" a Jewish surname? Why are they everywhere?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-23 5:30

>>59
Women on the internet. Serious business.
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