John:

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There are very few topics I can sit for 75 minutes and have someone lecture me with PPT slides and actually learn anything. To me, the current DevCon session formats are really only suitable for previews and overviews.
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This is how I perceive those conferences. I attend them once in a while to find which new topics may be of interest to me. I later conduct my own researh at home. I prefer the bugs to be of my own creation < bg >.

This is also my perception of most magazines. I keep subscribing as long as they introduce to new topics of interest, even if all of the code used in the articles is worthless.

Daniel