About three months ago while browsing Proggit, I came across a thread titled simply “This is an awesome conference”. Idly browsing the speaker list, I stopped dead at the first two.
I still haven’t gotten around to working through SICP, but I’ve wanted to hear Guy Steele talk ever since reading “Growing a Language”. The sheer amount and variety of the other speakers and subjects gave me pause–most software conferences that I knew of were either heavily buzzword-based(JavaOne), expensive(RailsConf), or both(again, JavaOne). Hitting up my boss for support was comically easy after showing him the registration fee and location.
