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Developer Conferences for the Summer?
modi123 asks: "It's getting close to the middle of the year and I am looking for a developer conference or two, so that I can fill my educational quota. TechEd in Orlando is out (I was the last yell 'not it' and I have to remain behind to man the system), my boss won't allow me to travel to TechEd Euro in Barcelona, and I am at a loss on where to go. My areas of expertise are VB.NET, MSSQL, and application development, while I dabble in AI, info sec, and GUI development. Do you have any suggestions where I can go? Side note, I keep hearing about this 'defcon' thing — would that benefit an app developer, or is that mainly an overblown info sec experience?"
Siggraph is always fun. It's a mix of creative and technical people, with plenty of interactive "art" (nearly games).
Most people I know, even the non-graphics ones, love it.
DEFCON, while fun, is more of a giant party with some technical talks than an actual educational experience. If you're looking for something to further your technical prowess, rather than a fun weekend off in Vegas, I wouldn't recommend DEFCON.
I'd look into all of the USENIX conferences, or maybe CRYPTO if you're so inclined.
- dshaw