Over in .Net-land, Microsoft's upcoming PDC conference is getting lots of attention. Scoble is doing a great job of hyping up the conference daily and other blogs are joining in the chorus. The biggest stumbling block for many is the price. It seems the conference is going to be a few grand and many blogs are complaining about it.
Doug Reilly has a great post in response to this whining. Basically, it boils down to the fact that you are individually responsible for your career and if you feel the PDC is the place for you, then YOU have to find a way to get there.
Sam Gentile follows-up with more on the need for personal responsibility for professional growth.
Make a plan where you want to be in a year, 5 years, etc. and what it will take to get there. Then work on it. Write code, write articles, blog, whatever.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Posted by Josh at August 11, 2003 12:39 AM | TrackBack