I’m not a database guy. In fact, it’s one of the aspects of programming I least like. So it surprised some of my colleagues when I told them I was attending a session at Techorama aimed at DBAs. But the description struck a chord with me. Grant Fritchey gave a session named "Solving the Database Deployment Problem". In my short career, I’ve only seen one place where database deployment was done correctly. And it was my first employer. Every change
At Team4Talent we recently held an entire day of developer sessions. We regularly have someone give a session on an interesting topic, but always after work. This limits time somewhat. An entire day makes it possible to have multiple sessions and dive more deeply into the topics at hand.I myself gave a session on using Durandal for single page applications. Some of my colleagues are very much pro-javascript (looking at you Tim!), while others are sceptical. I hope I could