I live in a city with a rich culture, history, and a thriving technology scene. But oddly enough, we don\u2019t have many tech conferences or big events for start-ups, developers, or even just enthusiasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the amazing team at TechMids<\/a> are changing that. They\u2019re a lovely organisation helping to support a whole bunch of meetups, and they\u2019re running conferences \ud83d\ude31 And they\u2019re doing it brilliantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, you read that correctly. They\u2019ve recently wrapped up the third edition of a conference being run as the highlight event of Birmingham Tech Week<\/a>. This meant a very full day of talks in the Birmingham International Conference Centre, with a huge number of attendees ranging from business people to developers, students, and boot campers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I was lucky to be in the thick of it representing Infobip and our awesome collection of tools and products to help organisations and applications communicate with users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was much like every other conference, an early start with coffee and conversations at the Infobip booth. Got to talk to people who worked in Croatia (which was awesome to find in Central England) since Infobip is one of Croatia\u2019s largest technology companies, as well as people building for other technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then the real stars of the show were on. The speakers started and just didn\u2019t stop giving informative (and sometimes funny) talks. Unfortunately,<\/ins> I didn\u2019t get to watch all the speakers deliver talks as I was in conversations with people at our booth. But here is a highlight of a couple of talks I did see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I spent a lot of time thinking about this subject, Steve McDougall<\/a> gave a session on SDK development. Ironically, I do disagree with the limitations of a generator approach,<\/ins> but I can appreciate the arguments he gave towards carefully considered hand-crafted client-libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\nConferences you say?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So, what happened at TechMids?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n