I’ve been bugging my employers for years to send me to conferences and training seminars. None of them have been keen on the idea, and it’s a real shame. I’m lucky enough to have an incredibly good supervisory staff and a great job now. I asked to go to YAPC::NA, and they decided it would be a good idea to send me!
I can honestly say that they got their money’s worth within just a few presentations. I also met a lot of cool people that were genuinely interested in my work. This is encouraging me to start writing more as well as refactor my code and start a real open source project that currently is unnamed.
I’ll be providing a write up of my notes in a series of YAPC::NA installments. I know it’s nearly a month after, but I was so excited, I spent my time actually implementing new things at work based on what I learned.
