I had the opportunity to speak at DevConf this year. It is the first year that the conference has run, and I must say I had a great time overall. It was my first time speaking at a conference too! After all the nerves, I really enjoyed myself.
The day started off with Mark Pearl opening up the conference.
Me opening up @DevConfza – I think this sums it up pretty well. Thank you #DevConf pic.twitter.com/lIm3rqMR09
— Mark Pearl (@MarkPearlCoZa) March 9, 2016
That is a lot of developers!
Danie Roux then kicked us off with a keynote about
I gave my talk at 13:10 on Performance Testing tools in Android, which I managed to record. You can watch that here:
(apologies for the bad audio after 7:00, apparently Key note is not good at recording audio 😥 ).
There was lots of food – popcorn, brownies, burgers, breakfast.
Popcorn! Woot! #devconf pic.twitter.com/LI1eYgR7Yi
— Rebecca Franks (@riggaroo) March 8, 2016
I attended a couple of sessions but I wish I could have seen more. I attended Johann Du Toit – “Understanding the issues while crawling the internet using Kubernetes”, which was interesting because I know nothing about Kubernetes 😅, I know a bit more know.
Lessons learnt crawling the internet using kubernetes @Johann_du_Toit #devconf pic.twitter.com/5eRjufJDQy
— Rebecca Franks (@riggaroo) March 8, 2016
“Git vs CI” was a good topic that I attended too, Duane McKibbin gave compelling reasons for using trunk based development vs feature branching.
Git vs CI @duanemck #devconf pic.twitter.com/pRX9OQFaH8
— Rebecca Franks (@riggaroo) March 8, 2016
The last session I managed to catch was Janco Wolmarans session about “Safety First! How to drop the compiler crutch for faster refactoring” which has really changed how I am starting to look at refactoring. Definitely going to start doing smaller bits of refactoring from now on.
Refactoring talk by @jancowol #devconf pic.twitter.com/etlQnUOxf3
— Rebecca Franks (@riggaroo) March 8, 2016
Thanks to Mark, Terence, Robert and all the speakers for an awesome conference! I look forward to DevConf 2017!
Already planning next year: organisers #DevConf @devconfza pic.twitter.com/8CEEnUEXG6
— Tracy Burrows (@trcyburr) March 8, 2016
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3 responses to “DevConf – South Africa – March 8th, 2016”
Ah, sorry, should have taken more!
How did you record yourself (the video)?
I had a digital audio recorder, but I was so nervous I forgot to start it until halfway through 🙂
I had a tripod, a camera and a helpful assistant 🙂 unfortunately recorded the audio through keynote but it stopped at 7 min??? 🙁 had to switch to using the cameras audio which isn’t great. But for a first attempt I think it was okay 🙂