There are plenty of excellent presentations that were recorded at various conferences. Many of those get lost in the sea of other videos with less relevant videos.

For a while I thought it would be worth highlighting some of these, even if they are from several years ago. A curated list of Tech Talks.

The main topics I am interested in are

• (Software) Development methodologies
• eXtreme programming
• Agile (as in the manifesto)
• DevOps (as a methodology)
• "best practices" for (software) development

As I watch these videos I like to take notes. When the speaker mentions a book, an author, or refers to a web site I like to look them up and include the links in my notes. That helps me remembering what the speaker said.

This turns them into Annotated Tech Talks.

As I am already doing that anyway at one point I started to share these notes in the hope that my selection of presentations and the notes will help someone else as well.

I am going to share some of these videos and notes here on DEV and to make it easier to find I'll put them in a series and this will be the opening page of that series.

If you are interested in the full list of videos I have already annotated check out the Annotated Tech Talks.

If you see presentation that you think would be worth watching and worth featuring let me know!