My CodeMash 2010 Schedule
A new year means it’s time for CodeMash. Tomorrow I begin the annual geek pilgrimage into the water park for tech knowledge. I’m amazed at how much the conference has grown, and the strength of the session list. It was difficult to decide where to spend time, but here’s my current plan:
We’ve got great keynoters this year, and I’ll be attending all of those. I am attending the precompiler again this year. Here’s the current plan:
- Wed AM: The Ruby Koans (Joe O’Brien and Jim Weirich
- Wed PM: Open. I’m not sure what
Thursday:
9:45: Silverlight from Zero (Jesse Liberty) 11:00: User Stories: Closing the Agile Loop (Barry Hawkins) 1:45: Ruby and Rails for the .NET Developer (Matt Yoho) 3:35: Funky Java, Objective Scala (Dick Wall) 4:45: Engineering vs. Design – How to Work Together (Joe Nuxoll) Friday:
- 9:30: Going Dynamic in C# (Bill Wagner). Of course, I have to be there. But, I hate pimping my own talk, so if I weren’t speaking at this slot, I’d pick:
- 9:30 (alternate) Being an Evil Genius with F# and .NET (Chris Smith)
- 10:45: Restful Interfaces to 3rd Party Websites with Iron Python (Kevin Dahlhausen) (I’m picking this because I’ve seen Jim Holmes’ Leadership talk, and I need to learn Python better)
- 1:45: Iron Python with ASP.NET (Chris Sutton)
- 3:35: What’s new in Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
Some of this will likely change, but I think you can see the goals: I want to learn more about dynamic languages in general. I also want to take the opportunity to learn as much Silverlight as I can. Jesse Liberty is a great teacher, and I can’t pass on this opportunity.
Of course, like every CodeMash, I’ll probably make a number of changes to this one as well.