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80+ Speakers in the First Ever Virtual Software Conference (AirPair W14)

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Looks like a great event. However "first ever" is a specious claim. See http://www.mvcconf.com/ http://www.aspconf.net/ http://www.dotnetconf.net/ Those were inspired by another online-only conference whose name is escaping me.

I've spoken at 2 other events (one hosted by O'Reilly and I can't remember the other one...), so yeah the "first ever" claim is fairly dishonest.

I guess I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think it's dishonest -- those events were much smaller scale and on narrow topics.

I think you're underestimating the scope of MvcConf. It was bigger than what you're marketing.

Totally, I get it. FYI we're continuing to add presenters througout August and should be biggest soon.

But you didn't say "largest ever", you said "first ever"...

But was theirs on Air... ?

#boom #mindblown

I'm hosting a talk about Rails 4 going through all the new features as of the 4.1 release. It will be targeted towards people new to Rails and experienced Rails 3 developers.

This event has an amazing lineup and I'm looking forward to attending many of the sessions myself.

BAS here. I am pretty active in the TypeScript community. I'll be discussing JavaScript. I'm going to be talking about `this` and explaining the beauty (and simplicity) of prototype inheritance in JavaScript. It's going to be pretty code focused. I've found this to be the most mis-understood section of JavaScript. Also you'll understand why there is bind/call/apply on function prototypes (how they simplify your code). What's up with `constructor` and the simplicity of `instanceof`.

I'm hosting a panel with Chad Pytel the CEO of Thoughtbot, Evan Henshaw-Plath (rabble) CTO of Neo and Mike Mason, CTO of ThoughtWorks, to discuss the future of consulting. If anyone is interested, I wrote up my thoughts on AirConf and why I think it could be the future of tech conferences here: https://medium.com/@obie/a-different-kind-of-tech-conference...

I'm hosting a talk on Meteor.js and what I've learned from my year+ time using it. I am pretty excited and I think the lineup looks amazing!

Is Meteor.js still as hot as it was right after launching? Haven't seen much about it lately. For awhile there I was thinking it might be "the next Ruby on Rails", but then it seemed to drop off the radar.

Actually my main recollection from playing with it was that debugging was a bitch.

Debugging is not that hard. It hasn't really dropped off the radar, I just think most people are waiting for the arbitrary 1.0 tag to hit.

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great! sounds incredible

I'll be talking about Solr and custom search engines in Week 4 of the conference. Talk title: "Discover Your Inner Search Engine". If there is interest, I will also be talking about Solr vs. ElasticSearch in the interactive part.

This looks really cool!! I can't wait to hear what some of those guys have to say.

Kudos to AirPair, this is a really impressive and extensive lineup. Also, from what I understand (seems a little unclear...), these are interactive workshops not just talks, so I'm very much looking forward to getting involved.

I'm leading a totally online Coding Dojo at AirConf, similar to what @caike and I ran at RailsConf 2014: http://youtu.be/d-Yc7XpELRg

I'll be speaking about Composer packages creation in Laravel, and how to use them to fast decouple everything in your apps.

Looking forward to participating! I will be speaking on visualisation techniques for lean startup teams on Aug 8. I think that this is a great way to foster conversations and cultivate new ideas.

I'm speaking about Twilio during AirConf - doing an intro to using Twilio for voice and SMS with your applications for developers who have never used Twilio.

I think this looks like a really great event. I'm buying a ticket this week!

Looking forward to a few of these

The speaker list actually looks pretty good.

Awesome!

looks good!

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