--- title: "Small Israeli DevDays rants" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/15/small-israeli-devdays-rants.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/15/small-israeli-devdays-rants.html" published: "2004-02-15T11:24:00" updated: "2004-02-15T11:24:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Here's a small rant: Why didn't we get all this cool stuff in the Israeli DevDays conference? Especially I don't get why we didn't get Whidbey preview edition (and I heard a rumor that we should have gotten it but it…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Small Israeli DevDays rants By Roy Osherove February 15, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published February 15, 2004; technical details may be outdated. Here's a small rant: Why didn't we get [all this cool stuff](http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/devdays/) in the Israeli DevDays conference? Especially I don't get why we didn't get Whidbey preview edition (and I heard a rumor that we should have gotten it but it cost too much, like 1$ per person). So, why does Israel have to keep legging behind the rest of the world? On the other hand, we got the [Writing Secure Code 2nd edition](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735617228/iserializable-20), which is a very very very good book and yes, admission was free. More points: -  when you register at the MS site for the conference, you get a confirmation ID. You get it sent to your email. If by any chance you **lose that email** you have no chance of recovering it. Sure, the website shows you that you are registered for the event, but it does not show the reference ID for your registration. Since this is what happened to me, I actually called MS support on the phone and,how wonderful, the guy couldn't tell me my reference ID as well! He had to re-register me to get a new ID. Is this the 80's? - When are we going to get some world class celebs into our conferences? Are people afraid to come here or something? I mean, as long as you don't take the bus, you're safe ;) ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Feb 17, 2004 ### [Community application blocks revisited - with a twist](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/community-application-blocks-revisited-with-a-twist.html) - Feb 17, 2004 ### [Book of the month](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/book-of-the-month.html) - Feb 13, 2004 ### [MVP Recommendation: James Crowley](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/13/mvp-recommendation-james-crowley.html) - Feb 13, 2004 ### [New Israeli User Group: Agile Development. What do you think?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/13/new-israeli-user-group-agile-development-what-do-you-think.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/