On September 10-11, ODTUG will hold its latest APEXposed conference in Montreal. I am honored to be a keynote speaker on the 11th, and I will reprise my world-famous "Coding Therapy for Software Developers" presentation. Here's a description:
We can't write software without our brains, and our brains come with a full load of "issues." The way our brain remembers the past and projects into the future has a big impact on how we write code. Moving beyond physiology, human psychology also plays its role, making it difficult for us to acknowledge ignorance and ask for help. Steven will in this session address offer an intensive coding therapy session (including couples therapy, dream therapy, game theory, and shock therapy) to help all attendees come to grips with their innate, unavoidable "issues", making it easier to write better code -- and help others on their team write better code.
And if you cannot attend the conference, you can check out the therapy sessions that Dell (then Quest) recorded back in 2012:
- Why Developers Need Therapy
- Shock Therapy
- Game Therapy
- Dream Therapy
- Confessional Therapy
- Couples Therapy DBAs
- Couples Therapy Managers
I am looking forward to returning to Montreal. Years and years ago, I brought Eli with me (then perhaps 10 or 11, now 26) while I did a full day training for the user group. He stayed in the hotel room, I went to the ballroom to present. Two hours later, the fire alarm goes off in the hotel. OMG, where is Eli? Is he OK? Everyone milled around in the lobby....and I found him, hanging out and playing Magic cards with an attendee of the training. Whew.
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