I wanted to post a short summary of the Polish MTS and my experience of it since just after the MTS. Finally found some time to go through the lectures again and do a small write-up. I've heard several bad reviews of the previous events in Warsaw, about how they were nothing more than a marketing event and how badly planned they were. I was going to see the event with slightly mixed feeling but also a wanting to see it all by myself. Contrary to what I heard earlier the event was really interesting and I enjoyed nearly all sessions I selected for myself.
The lectures:
- Async in practice by Jakub Binkowski
I've seen several lectures on this topic and I was wondering whether I can get anything more from seeing another one. The lecture was really good and focused on mistakes often made in multi-threaded programming using async and await and how difficult they are to diagnose.
- Adventures in the underland: what passwords do when no one is watching by Paula Januszkiewicz
Very entertaining session, Paula speaks with passion and great fluency, adds a bit of humour to every topic. I haven't seen a better Polish speaker yet. The session touched on different ways of grabbing a password off of unsuspecting users. Although some of it seemed to be added just to wow the audiance.
- What's New in Visual Studio 2013 for Application Lifecycle Management by Brian Keller
I didn't read, listen or watch much on VS 2013 earlier, so this was definitely an interesting session for me. It was about the project and task management mechanisms added to VS. I really liked how you could connect and synchronize your tasks with lines of code, and do your code reviews - facebook style. Practically it's like adding a little jira / trello to your source code. These were just some of the many features presented.
- Modular Javascript Typescript code by Maciej Grzyb
A really informative session about using type script for creating more maintainable javascript code by introducing namespaces. I wanted to take a look at either typescript or coffeescript for some time already, but could never find the time to. This was a very good introductory session for me despite it focusing on namespaces.
- Entity Framework 6 - open access for all by Piotr Bubacz
Quite a typica tech walkthrough, with some of the hurdles of older EF versions finally resolved.
Overall it was a pretty good conference. I'm still hoping though one day we will have a conference of the NDC caliber in Poland.
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