For the rest of 2013, this blog will mostly be masquerading as a travel blog.
conferences
Life on both sides of the interview table
InfoQ has posted the video of Dan North and I opining on the subject of hiring. Most of the talk is spent on how to be a good interviewer, and touches on how to market your company to prospective hires. We spend less time on how to do well as an interviewee, but in theory if you know what's going through the interviewer's mind, you should be in a much better position to take control of the interview and shine.
JavaOne Shanghai
So, I was in China last week. It's not really what I expected, but then my knowledge of China comes almost entirely from visiting various Chinatowns and watching martial arts movies, so I guess I wasn't all that well prepared for a modern Asian city like Shanghai.
2013 is looking a lot busier than I planned…
So, despite promising myself that I would only do one event a month for the rest of this year, looks like I'm going to be a bit busier than that.
Devoxx UK 2013
Last week was the first Devoxx UK, bringing the brand from Belgium and, more recently, France. And I think it was a HUGE success.
QCon Day One
I like QCon London, I really do. Not only is it on home turf, but, as I've said before, it doesn't just focus on technology, or a set of technologies.
Devoxx: The Problem with Women – A Technical Approach
As well as talking about, you know, actual work-type-stuff, I was encouraged to give my "Technical Approach to Women" presentation at Devoxx. This went so well at JavaOne that I thought it would be difficult to top. Also, I wasn't convinced it would work at Devoxx, because the theatres are not well suited to audience participation - the seats are warm and comfy, the room is dark, the speaker is on stage in front of a massive screen....
LJC Open Conference 2012
Saturday I had the pleasure of being part of the 5th London Java Community Open Conference. This is a great event to end the conference season on – it made me feel good about being part of the LJC, and got me excited about the prospects for 2013. The fantastic thing about an open conference … Read more
Summary of Devoxx 2012
Devoxx 2012 from Roy van Rijn on Vimeo.
Devoxx topped off a crazy two months of conferences. I've heard people talk about the conference season in the past, and been slightly (OK, very) jealous of all that jet-setting. I'll admit, however, to a slight feeling of relief that my focus until Christmas is pretty much going to be coding. I hope.