July 21st, 2009
Posted by scotti3g
I went to the Sydney PayPal Developer Days yesterday and have to say I was very very impressed. PayPal is clearly interested in growing their brand in Australia and what better way to do so then giving developers the tools to make PayPal easy to implement for their clients.
Free PayPal Certification
The big drawcard for the PayPal Developer Days is that you get a promotional code that lets you sit the PayPal Certification tests for free. That’s $300 USD worth of value. Given that I’ve been developing some solutions that use PayPal over the past few weeks I would have gone to the conference anyway, but the more I think about it the more I like the idea of being certified. Primarily I’ll be interested in seeing how much new business it can generate.
Nice write up Scott.
I am attending the Developer Day in Melbourne tomorrow, and now I know what to expect.
Was there much of an opportunity to ask PayPal staff questions?
James
Thanks James. It’s really nice to have feedback and know the coverage was useful to someone :)
Yeah, there was plenty of opportunity to ask the staff questions. There was a Q&A after each speaker and during the morning tea the staff mingled.
The questions weren’t too tech-heavy as a lot of people were there simply to learn about PayPal’s products and services as opposed to pushing the envelope (like I’m doing with their subscription paypments at the moment ;)).
But if you have any real techy questions their online support is great and I’m more than happy to try to answer anything you might want to know :)