Joel on Software

[da]

I just visited Joel On Software in response to a friend's heads-up that his latest blog entry was on AJAX/web programming. Joel Spolski is often interesting, smart and funny, even if sometimes he's totally wrong- I read the blog when I have time, which is not frequently.

I saw he's touring to demo his software company's latest project, a bug-tracking system. Just for kicks, I checked their schedule, partly to see whether they were even making it to Toronto on their 22-city tour.

They're in my town, tomorrow morning. *boggle*

(Then in Toronto tomorrow afternoon.)

It's a super-short event, but it's free and at a reasonable hour, and relevent to the kinds of stuff I'm interested in, so I registered, and there's no waiting list. Quelle surprise.

Comments

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

You do live in a very geeky town. The density of comic book dealers alone should prove that to you.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That never occurred to me as such, but you have a point.

And, we're the World's Most Intelligent Community.

*eye-roll*

I am curious if there will be more than three people at the demo, since it was so badly publicized.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

It makes sense. It's the geek Mecca of Canada. Plus, it's where a huge number the people who will go on to develop at major software corporations all over North America are being trained.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Sure. But I work in the building they're trained in, and there weren't any signs for it. That's a little odd...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It turns out that while they did choose our town because of the reputation of the University among hirers, they also didn't do much advertising because they generally had a number of people who would come because of the blog. (easier sales, perhaps?)

Not the marketing choice I would've made, but there was a full room of 60 or more people.

If I were doing the world tour, I would've made more of a deal out of the University connection and getting people to tell their friends. And /volunteering/ that academics, students and non-profits got half-off (and open-source projects could use it for free under some circumstances).
But that's just me.