May 26-27 at the conference was DevCon'11, which took place in the near suburbs.
Pension ' Pokrovskoye ' for Golitsino, about 40 to Mozhayskoe highway, then right for about 7 km. Good place, though going by car is still very convenient Mozhayka - narrow, goes through the Odintsovo, it is necessary to overcome the railway crossing. And with no rotation of the Minsk Highway (or through travel or through Kubinka ). Perhaps the most quickly (though longer) on Novorizhskoe and in Zvenigorod, but you need to navigate the roads.
I was here once in late September 2007 on the CIO Congress. Photo Album (about himself and about the boarding way back, not about a party ) - here.
http://photo. qip. ru/users/akolesov/3139832 /. Classroom time - a golden autumn, beautiful... the Congress does not itself very much, as do other CIO- event. People, even on Saturday and Sunday went there in suits with ties....
So, DevCon'11.
In a series of different kinds of IT activities - is a special. This is a Microsoft conference for software developers. The chip is then that DevCon'y conducted in 1995-98. , In Obninsk, in early June and I participated in the first three. It is because of DevKonov I refused to take part in took place at the same time ( with a 96- year ), Turkish workshops with '1 '. Actually, in the 98th, I just decided to still go with '1 C ', and therefore missed. And rightly so, DevKony were already a spent, and '1 C ' went up the hill like a tank (the train gave a powerful impetus for a major developer topics).
DevKony 90 - a momentous event, it is very interesting stage of formation of our IT market. And for me personally. After issue ' development and developers ' - this is my traditional theme, which was the principal for fifteen years, and now interest in Forus.
At DevCon'95 invited me to her manager Jura Tomashko. And - as a ' known ' (in the narrow circles ) Basic- Basic- programmer and activist . And free ( participation rates ). Moreover, I 've made a report ' Basic- state movement in Russia ', for which I (which was a pleasant surprise for me, but like the other speakers ) pay a fee ( remember, a very worthy ).
Based on the this trip in '95, I wrote.
article, a report in ComputerWeek-Moscow. (and then been in articles 96 and 97 years. ), And how easy it is outside the author (but I'm there already been published previously, and started with the article, not very sympathetic to Microsoft -.
'How to buy the products Microsoft'. and.
' The formation of a civilized market programs '. - However, I must say, respected. And even that's been invited...). And after two and a half months of CW-M asked me to become a member of staff, programmers moving from the ' hacks '. What I did....
In short, DevCon'9h - it's history and industry, and personal, the topic of Microsoft remains one of the key developers, as it turns out, too.
It is understandable why DevCon'11 - this is also true.
Even before the conference, I wrote a few posts and did an interview (I think it turned out well ), here's link:.
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Microsoft wants to revive DevCon. Why would it?. -.
DevCon'11 - active, but somehow. -.
... (interview with Sasha Lozhechkin, mainly for the conference).
Right there, at the conference wrote another important (IMHO) the post:.
' NPP and the life '. ( More about that, I now write ).
And yet, finally,.
The final article on the conference, which was published late last week:. DevCon'11 - sixteen years later. 
The original plan, I had to go on Thursday morning DevCon. But it turned out that the 26th was held in Moscow is another important event - the conference on ' National program platform '. Really important, but in a different plane than the DevCon,.
Actually, in my view just these two conferences represent the opposite of the vector current development of our IT market. This is just written in the post.
' NPP and the life '. I like to call ' simulation and life ', but have decided to soften a bit (all the same editorial blog).
But in fact, ' bad for the market ' - it does not mean ' not interested '. Just pretty interesting, a lot of work to write... (that's another post written directly to the SPE conference, held as an interesting exchange of views -.
'The participation of foreigners in Skolkovo in the current format, I do not see any prospects '. At first I planned to stay at the SPE conference before lunch and then go to DevCon. But the event was ' carried away ' - dosidel before closing ( an extremely rare case for me, do not even remember analogues).
I went to, including and in order to just get yourself going after these conversations about the role of the government to rescue the Russian software industry and make sure again that there is a normal life, not just talk - cuts.
Actually, I sat down two hours ago for the computer to publish a photo report on DevCon'11. But I decided to write a short introduction, an explanation.
That's written.
Photos will have until tomorrow.
P. S. Incidentally, the first MS threatened to gather 1,000 participants, but it turned out only 650. In general, it was clear initially: infrastructure ' Intercession ' do not miss the physical ( conference- hall for 500 seats out there, no more).
But I am sure that the place be more participants would increase. All -day conference should be carried out otherwise than 15 years ago.
