Siberia? The Bears? Code! Or how we visited CodeFest

This weekend, the largest conference beyond the Urals - CodeFest ! It was very informative, fun and incendiary, and for this you need to thank the excellent organizers, volunteers and speakers! Well, of course, sponsors, including DevExpress for the second year in a row.



At 9 am, having prepared everything for our stand, we looked at the arriving participants with some caution. It's no joke, this year the conference broke its attendance record by accepting more than 1,800 developers, testers, designers, team leaders and product managers from all over Russia!
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We prepared sweet and tasty gifts for everyone: sweets, traditional Tula gingerbread with jam and condensed milk. You should have seen how we diligently carried them from Tula through all the security checkpoints at the airport, but that’s another story ...



It must be said that the stands of all the sponsors were very interesting: practical jokes, tasks, gifts, interesting experiments and theremin, print of T-shirts with their own design. At our booth, we played scarves with the DevExpress logo and comics among those who subscribed to our Russian-speaking twitter @DXRussia . I tell you honestly, the most difficult task was to protect the prizes from the encroachments of my colleagues ... But I successfully managed to accomplish this task, so both the comics and scarves found their lucky owners. We were unable to transfer 2 prizes, so we decided to send them by mail. Guys, wait, your comics will definitely come to you!

Special thanks to all the conference participants, because it is a pleasure to communicate with you! We discussed the differences between Selenium and TestCafe with testers , and how DevExpress lives without testers (we talked about it in detail on FrontTalks ). By the way, many did not know that now there is a free and open source version of TestCafe. With the developers on the .NET platform, we talked about our line of UI components , with team leads - about how we implemented Scrum in our teams. Web developers have learned about our js widgets , as well as the imminent preview of the Grid React component. There were product developers for mobile platforms, and the importance of using native components without wrappers was discussed with them.

On the second day of the conference, we had several important tasks - to show everyone HoloLens, which we brought with us, as well as to present two reports from DevExpress.

Our Dutch colleague Don Vibier spoke about the features of creating applications for Electron.



And Sergey Zvyagin demonstrated what awaits us in the future with virtual reality and holograms.



Judging by the fullness of the halls, our speaker managed to conduct his reports perfectly. Not less people on this day were at our booth - everyone wanted to try augmented reality with HoloLens.



We killed aliens creeping straight out of the walls of our stand, painted with gestures, practiced English with virtual birds, walked with dinosaurs, admired holograms of people in full growth, and even loaded onto the application application CdeFest with our colleague from Yandex Dmitry Adodin!

These two days were very rich and interesting, we sadly left Novosibirsk. We sincerely hope to see you again next year!

Your devExpress.