In just a little over 2 weeks I'll be in Kansas City, Missouri speaking at the first annual D2W (Designer/Developer Workflow) conference, organized with the specific purpose of helping to enhance and/or bridge the gap in the knowledge and workflow disparities that can exist between the design and development aspects of a project. Though we in the CF/Adobe community are fortunate enough to have several conferences to choose from each year, I can't help but feel that Dee Sadler has very successfully addressed a gap in the genres and educational targets as covered by current conferences, thus further complementing the cornucopia of information available to not only developers, but also (in the case of this conference), designers.

Taking a look at the session schedule reveals what I beieve to be a unique and intriguing array of topics not covered with such focus anywhere else. For many of us developers, there is a very real need to at least be somewhat proficient as a designer in order to perform our jobs. Prototyping applications, organizing the way we transform client requests into functional products, enhancing the way we communicate with designers and stakeholders, being able to utilize the Adobe tools our employers provide us to their full capacity...all areas we can stand to improve in, and all topics covered by this conference. 

 Considering the relatively small conference fee, and the fact that there are still two weeks until the conference starts (meaning airline tickets can still be obtained at discount), I would definitely recommend that you at least check out some of the particulars of what D2W is offering.