It turns out that I will be going to the GOTO conference in Aarhus this year in my capacity as a blogger. The kind people arranging the GOTO conference have invited me and some other bloggers to come along, and blog about the conference. I obviously thought this was a great idea, and thankfully my employers at NineConsult thought it was a great idea as well.
Since I am a great believer in full disclosure, I thought I'd better be upfront about this potential bias.
This will be the 3rd time I'm going to the GOTO conference - or rather, the second, as I've been once to GOTO and once to JAOO, which was the old name for the conference.
I can easily say that GOTO is my favorite conference - it has the right mix of talks about methods, technologies, frameworks, and broader developer-related subjects for it to appeal to me. It also has the advantage of not being wed to one specific technology - neither in talks nor in vendors. Another great thing about GOTO, is that the speakers are immensely approachable (to be fair, the same was the case at QCon London).
My blogging from the conference will probably be focused on two things:
1) Diversity, or rather, how we get more diversity in our field, at our conferences etc. GOTO has been great in trying to increase the diversity both among speakers and among participants, and many of the people helping with GOTO are involved in great groups such as Ada Århus, which is a networking group for women in IT in Århus.
Those posts will probably be crossposted at my other blog, since this is a subject I discuss alot on that blog.
2) The talks. If there are some great or thought-provoking talks, I'll be sure to write about them. I've noticed that there is usually some kind of theme going through the talks (e.g. in QCon London in March, it was the concept of knowing your tradeoffs when making decisions), and I'll certainly make sure to write about any such at GOTO.
If any of the talks relate to error-driven development or how to end it, I'll of course also write something.
Code Coverage Has a Blind Spot
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Here’s the coverage report on a recent PR of mine: All modified and
coverable lines are covered by tests ? Comparison is base (a765aef) 85.95%
compared to ...
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I couldn't agree more - GOTO Aarhus and QCon London are my favorite conferences because the speakers are so easy to talk to and they even go to each others talks and ask tough questions. (Full disclosure - in my distant past I used to help organize these conferences and I still help out sometimes.)
ReplyDeleteI just have one thing to correct in your blog post - the organization for women in IT in Aarhus is actually spelled Ada Aarhus not Ada Århus... I should know - I chose the name and co-founded Ada Aarhus ;-)... and we used Aarhus even before the city changed it's name to it.