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What conferences should a programmer working in the industry follow?

17th January 2011

My answer to What conferences should a programmer working in the industry follow? on Quora

If I had to pick just one programming-related conference a year, it would probably be OSCON. The maintainers of pretty much every piece of software I use on a daily basis go there.

Posted 17th January 2011 at 10:27 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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