Devoxx 2012 Swag

Devoxx 2012 has been and gone, and it was a fantastic few days in Antwerpen. I caught up with a lot of great people, made the acquaintance of even more and saw some superb presentations (plus a couple of duds, but there’s an NFC voting system to express this).

I’ve got a lot of material that I need to write up – so much so that I’m getting carpel tunnel syndrome just thinking about it – but in the meantime, here’s a rundown of the things that really count.

This year at Devoxx, some true geeks gave to me

• 14 assorted t-shirts
• 12 pens
• 2 notepads
• 3 books – Scala in Depth, MongoDB: The Definitive Guide and Infinispan Data Grid Platform
• 24 badges
• 2 MongoDB monkeys (or possibly apes)
• 1 card reader
• One extremely orange headband
• 1 frisbee
• 3 lanyards
• Numerous chocolate bars and assorted confectionery
• 1 iPhone cover
• 3 tins of mints (hopefully not because of my breath)
• An already distributed and therefore uncountable large stack of stickers
• Something that may or may not be a gonk
• 2 yo-yos
• A block of post-it notes
• 1 bag
• 1 hoodie (which I unfortunately lost)
• 1 pack of agile poker planning cards
• 1 lens cleaner in a pouch
• 1 bicycle seat cover
• 2 three-dimensional puzzles
• Various refrigerator magnets

Thanks to Ben Verbeken for giving me a lift home after it became clear I couldn’t carry it all home using the train!