A couple of weeks ago, more precisely on March 31st, I attended the ArcReady event on Architecting for the Cloud. Sparing you of all the details, suffice it to say that it was much needed motivation to take action on a few personal goals around something that has always been a passion of mine… Continuous Education.
I am currently working on some personal tasks pertaining to that goal, as I said before inspired and motivated by the contents of that ArcReady event. Expect a stream of content coming from me on the topics around cloud computing, specifically developing for Azure.
Be it learning through trial by fire, attending a more structured lecture, seminar, conference or class or a combination of them, doing *that* allows me to frame my actions within the right mindset. It is a way to cope with the routine of our daily grind, where implementation of current technology is not always a welcome approach and other priorities take precedence.
This coming Friday April 17th, I will be attending an all day seminar on ASP.NET MVC, presented Jeffrey Palermo. Its a paid event at $125 for the day, including food. Not bad. Work is not picking up the tab (at least proactively), and I have no problem paying for it out of my own pocket.
I wouldn’t usually be willing to pay the $125 for a conference of this nature, but I’ve seen Jeffrey speak at a user group meeting and I genuinely enjoyed his style. At times, speakers either by choice or inadvertently focus their tone and message towards a certain audience, leaving some others with much to be desired and some others lost in the land of glazed eyes. In this case, Palermo certainly spoke to my “level”. Lets leave it at that.
I know Brennan and Scott Isaacs will be there. I don’t know who else, but I am sure 70% will be familiar faces as it always ends up being.
Next on the agenda for this month is an MSDN Events Unleashed afternoon session coming up Tuesday April 28th on Internet Explorer 8 for Developers and Developing on Microsoft Windows 7. Interesting topics, enough to coerce my attendance. On that, I wanted to comment on the fact that some people expect too much of these sessions, and honestly, they are what they are (isn’t that enlightening!)… You should attend with more than one point on your agenda. It is a chance to network and a chance to be there when perhaps this one bit of information which you weren’t aware of gets revealed to you. You may think on topics like these, having done your homework is good enough and “what else could I learn from going there?”, but you’d be surprised.
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