Hello everyone.

This is my second year as a developer out of college. The company I work for has volunteered to pay for us all to go to a developer conference of our choice this year. I know I have missed some of the early ones, but I would like an ideas / suggestions on where to go. I am just looking for good speakers / to learn something.

Thanks for any help you might be able to give me

PyCon, OSCON, Google I/O when announced for 2014, but there are a lot more.

I know you may not have looked, but a lot of conferences are recorded and vods are made available for previous events.

There is a good DEFCON channel on YouTube, though not specifically a developer Conference, they have some informative content. Personally, I would try for Google I/O, but if you are able to go to DEFCON, that would be the sickest option.

There's so many yo, good luck.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Yeah there are tons. I just got flooded when starting to initially search. I just wanted a way to start to limit it. I will def. look into these. Thanks a ton.

More details on what you are interested in developing, the languages you work with, and everything would probably help narrow the search.

I work for a small company that produces enterprise software. We deal with companies like IBM, Oracle, VMware. I mostly work with our products that deal with the Oracle side of our business. I have been to conferences like Oracle Collaborate and Oracle Open World before. However this is the first time I get to go to a conference that is more for ME and not what my company does.

For work / day to day life I mostly program in the following languages: Ruby, JRuby, Perl, Java, AS3, XML, MXML, SQL, etc. However I have worked with other languages as well such as HTML, Bash, Batch, SED, C, C++, R, ada, Cuda, Ruby on Rails, JQuery, Javascript, etc.

I'm not much of a web guy. Prefer working on the back end usually. I am trying to get better at web dev, app dev, etc. and I have done a significant amount of work in MXML/AS3 for work. However, I just don't know if I would get enough out of a conference based on web development, seeing as I am just delving into it as of late.

I briefly looked at the few you mentioned. Atm I think OSCON would prob be the best for me. But if you have other suggestions I would be grateful.

Thanks again