To attend or not to attend? That’s the question I am asking myself every year since 2002 when I attended my first FileMaker DevCon. I have attended 8 DevCons so far, and skipped one. I have identified the following 5 possible reasons for not attending:

• Attending DevCon costs a lot of money
• Traveling to DevCon costs a lot of money
• Staying at DevCon's location costs a lot of money
• Going to DevCon takes a lot of time when I cannot do my regular work
• The sessions and the people are going to be the same as last year

OK, you can argue with any one of these reasons, more or less successfully... But hey, dude, you're not really here reading this article to find reasons to not attend DevCon, are you? I think you're here because you have found my subject silly and want to argue with me...

So go ahead and check the rest of it, including my 15-minute road movie!

[Edit] I published this 10 years ago, now in 2021 it seems to still 100% valid for Claris Engale, ok maybe 90% for the online version...