Conference Notes
Missing OSCON Due To Travel Problems
I’ll be missing OSCON this year because of travel problems. The main thing is my talk is tomorrow, Robotics Programming 101, and my flight from Columbus to Chicago was delayed past when my other flight was due to leave. According to the Southwest Gate Agent at the time, there were no other guaranteed flights to Portland, which [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Conference Wrap-Up
Overall Great Conference. Thanks to all those who organized it and all the speakers that volunteered to speak! The only big downside was VERY POOR Wi-Fi and 1 Bar of Edge on AT&T. This meant that my blogging had to wait until after the conference. The Thursday party was very cool, but it was a [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Clojure
Presented By Howard M. Lewis Ship This was an OK presentation. I was a little distracted by the Neal Ford reference Ceremony vs. Essence. Perhaps Neal was not the only person to use it, but because I heard it a few years ago at a CodeMash keynote, it distracted me. I wanted to learn more [...]
CodeMash 2010 – The Mother Of All Bugs
Presented by Andy Hunt It was a pleasure seeing Andy speak. He’s one of the co-authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and it’s nice to see his perspective on things. Today’s talk was a pleasant surprise. No talk about Java evils or process improvement, but a discussion on cognitive science and why we think the way [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Refactoring The Programmer
Presented By Joe O’Brien Another great talk by Joe, The theme of this talk was how to improve your career as a programmer if you are finding that you hate/dislike what you are doing. I was fortunate to get a 2nd shot at this talk since it was packed in yesterday’s session. Joe gave a [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Thursday Wrap Up
The only negative is lack of WI-FI connectivity. We are having dinner, drinks and a live band after the sessions, Thursday’s always good for that. I would definitely vote that I learned the most from the Griffon session, only because I never heard of it.
CodeMash 2010 – Funky Java, Objective Scala
Presented by Dick Wall This was my second language talk, although the talk was more about Genetics and the calculations required for genetics than it was about Scala. I can imagine this talk much more interesting if it were a little longer or we had less of Genetics 101. Still I plan on downloading Scala [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Keynote: PHP and Other Adventures
Presented by: Hank Janssen I was surprised to find out that Microsoft is actually doing a lot for open source, they’ve even contributed to the Linux Kernel in July of 2009. But most notably my favorite language (PHP) they’ve done quite a bit of optimization and contributed greatly to PHP 5.3 on Windows. After this [...]
CodeMash 2010 – The case for Griffon: developing desktop applications for fun and profit
Presented By: Andres Almiray This was a cool session. I have been in web development so long it’s completely eluded me that there might actually be desktop application frameworks for Java (Groovy). There were a number of cool features and plugins available to this framework, one particular one I liked was the ability to make [...]
CodeMash 2010 – What Makes Ruby Different
Presented by Joe O’Brien, Mark Peabody, Leon Gersing I always enjoy listening to Joe talk, his enthusiasm about Ruby is admirable. The talk focused on the differences in how to solve many programming problems with different languages. The ones demoed against Ruby were C# and Java. I did not walk away with learning anything new [...]