I will be heading for a great conference for the next few days, Oct 27th to Oct 30th, and will write up some short posts on what I saw and heard that was interesting and\or new.  I found this conference focuses less on technologies and more on techniques that work.  There will be a lot of sessions on Agile and many of the Agile thoughtleaders will be there.  Also, it does it hurt that this conference is in Boston.