As another trillion devs out there, I've been a fan of both Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky for very long time. I've linked to
Coding Horror countless times and read
User Interface Design for Programmers quite a few years ago.
So it was a no-brainer following them to
StackOverflow when they released it, and it was also a no-brainer picking up a ticket for the
StackOverflow DevDays when they announced it.
The fun thing is that I got my ticket for London and a week later they announced they are coming to Cambridge as well. Now I'm not sure if I should stick to my London ticket or try to exchange it for one to Cambridge. It came up on our local
Refresh mailing list and I think this is interesting:
I thought about that and went for Cambridge. London is going to be 800 people I think. It's going to be a big event, not too dissimilar to FOWA I would wager when it's been in Kensington. Cambridge is going to be much smaller, which means it should be more personal.
... and lacking the exciting London startups/people.
True, but in amongst 800 people it's harder to meet them. I've nearly always found (and been guilty of) meeting up with people I know at such massive events
So, what do you prefer, big or small conferences?
It turns out the guys at
Subflash just announced this year's location, no more and no less than sunny Alicante during the last weekend of August. Although I've only been to Subflash once I remember it as one of the coolest Flash conferences that I've ever been to. Specially because it's small enough so you get to know and talk to
everybody. It's around 50 Flash geeks together during 3 days, everybody goes for lunch at the same time, to the same pub at the same time, to the beach at the same time... It's a family conference : )
Plus,
Marcos is always such a nice host taking very good care of everybody, another reason of Subflash' success all these years.
Sadly I won't be able to make it this time, I'm going to FOTB not long afterwards plus I already had
big plans for that weekend, but if you have no plans go and treat yourself to the
real Flash on the beach, you won't regret it.