Codeguru Update eNewsletter - February 3rd, 2009

The mention of some of our upcoming conferences made me wonder if you were even aware that we do conferences. You aren't going to see a VS Live!, Connections, or PDC from us because those are already effectively covered elsewhere. We tend to do conferences on topics that are a bit more focused. Focused doesn't mean uninteresting. Rather, we have a few that I wish even I could attend.

One that is coming up next week in San Jose is the User Generated Content Conference. This is the one I thought would be great to attend, but with it being in California, it was easier to send one of my editors from San Francisco. Being that you and other users at Codeguru generate most of the content on our site, it seems very applicable to Codeguru. It is also applicable for most people doing sites today, including companies that want to get their end users more involved. With speakers such as Craig Newmark (Craigslist) and Guy Kawasaki, there should be some interesting information.

Other upcoming conferences that are also interesting are the Web 3.0 Conference in New York in May. We've been covering the Semantic Web on DevX and on other sites for quite a while now. In my book, Web 2.0 Heroes, I ask a number of leaders of Web 2.0 sites what they think of the concept of the semantic web as well. The responses are interesting and it is a topic that any serious web developer should understand.

Of course, the next conference I'll be attending is the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle the first week of March. If you are planning to attend it, please let the other Codeguru members know. I know many of the Codeguru members like to meet up at the summit to speak face-to-face.

Of course, if you can't get to any of the conferences - and with budget cuts, that is understandable - you can always hang out at the Codeguru forums!

Until next week...

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