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We’re really excited to announce a brand new Carsonified event: Stack Overflow Dev Days. It’s a 1-day conference for programmers, in five different cities, and it’s only $99.

As you probably know, Joel Spolsky is one of the founders of Stack Overflow and he summarized the event quite well:

We decided to cram as many diverse topics as possible into a single day event. Like a tasting menu at a great restaurant, we’ll line up six great speakers in each city.

This is not going to be just a Java conference or a .NET conference or a Ruby conference. This will be completely ecumenical. We’ll have somebody to introduce Microsoft’s new web framework, ASP.NET MVC, but we’ll also get someone to talk about writing code for Google’s new mobile operating system, Android. And in each city, we’ll find one local computer science professor or graduate student to tell us about something new and interesting in academia.

For smart programmers who are interested in learning about something a little bit outside of their own immediate field, this is the conference for you. We’re doing it in the spirit of Byte Magazine. Remember Byte? Every issue covered a wide range of topics and technologies. Sadly, Byte disappeared, to be replaced by Mac-only magazines, IBM-PC only magazines, even Microsoft SQL Server-only magazines.

The conference is for programmers. The conversation is going to be hard core. Speakers are going to be writing code.

Where and when?

Here’s a run down of the dates and cities:

• October 19 San Francisco
• October 21 Seattle
• October 23 Toronto
• October 26 Washington, DC
• October 28 London

Topics we’ll be covering

Each talk will be fairly introductory but will be intended for advanced developers. If you already know about a topic, say, iPhone development, you can wander outside and hang out with the other iPhone developers in the hallways.

• Android
• Objective C and iPhone development
• Google App Engine
• Python
• jQuery
• ASP.NET MVC
• FogBugz 7.0
• Mercurial and Distributed Version Control

Who’s speaking

Joel Spolsky will be speaking in every city and Jeff Atwood (CEO and lead developer of Stack Overflow) will be speaking in San Francisco. We’ll be announcing the rest of the speaker lineup soon.

Let’s go!

If you’d like to attend, just head over to Stack Overflow Dev Days. Over 1/2 the seats sold out on the first day, so I don’t think they’ll last long. Hope you can join us!

If you have any questions or would like to sponsor, please shoot an email to devdays@stackoverflow.com and we’ll be happy to help.

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