Try to get TouK’s plume during 33rd Degree Conference

Developers ‘re counting down the days till the 33rd Degree Conference. This years edition takes place on 13-15 March in Warsaw. Feel invited to listen Piotr Burdyło’s talk Managing gang of chaotic software developers is complex.

TouK supports the conference for Java Masters already for the third time (so from the early beginning). This year we’ll have our own stand – it’s an additional opportunity to learn more about us. Also we’ll have a little contest for you. To take part, collect TouK’s feathers, just look out for them in the crowd…

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