My CodeMash Agenda
As I finish my talk preparation for CodeMash, I'm putting together my schedule.
You can view the silverlight page here: http://codemash.org/sessionscheduler/?1=2&2=28&3=4&4=7&5=3&7=42&8=14
However, that doesn't let me annotate the agenda, and discuss some of the other items at CodeMash. So, here's my take, including some alternative recommendations:
Wednesday evening: 7:00 Experts Panel: Talking Technology to humans. I've been trying to find the answers to this for years. If you're in technology, and your actually interested in making money occasionally, or even just convincing the business folks why your latest technology idea has merit, you need to attend. A number of technology leaders that actually get suits to listen to them will give you ideas on how to get your technology initiatives understood and adopted by your company.
Thursday 9:30: I'm going to be in the Experts Zone during most of the first session, but if I weren't, I'd be at the Coding in Silverlight talk.
11:00: This is a tough one. I want to learn Python, so I'm going to Catherine Devlin's "Crash, Smash, Kaboom Course in Python." Otherwise, I'd be in Jay Wren's Castle talk.
3:30: I'm going to be at my LinqTo<T>: Implementing QueryProvider talk. I don't have much choice here. If I weren't giving a talk now, I'd be going to Dianne's "Introduction to Scala" talk.
4:45: I'm going to Dustin's talk on "Putting the Fun into Functional with F#". Dustin is a great speaker and the topic is pretty cool.
Friday gets really interesting:
9:30: I'm giving my "Real World C# 3.0" talk here. It's a talk about how all the .NET 3.0 and 3.5 code work together to increase your productivity. However, this is a stacked time. I want to see Bruce Eckel's "Why I Love Python" talk. I also wanted to see Dick Wall's "Introduction to Android" talk.
Later in the morning, I'm taking a break.
At 1:30, Patrick Steele is doing a vendor session on "Introduction to MonoRail" that will be interesting. He's showing how he did a non-profit project and MonoRails was the quickest path.
2:30 is the Advanced Silverlight session. This is one of my goals this year: To learn move about Silverlight. If I weren't interested in Silverlight, I'd be doing the Continuous Integration talk.
The last session includes Jim Holmes' "Story Driven Testing". I very intrigued by that topic. It promises to show the way to build test cases that actually include how to create and use tests to validate customer (or user) expectation.
I'll be missing part of that session to head over to the experts zone for more Q & A.
CodeMash has become an embarrasement of riches. There are already too many great sessions, and no matter what I do, I will be missing something interesting.