Another great day at CodeMash! The morning keynote was awesome, I really like Neal Ford's presenting style, I just get the feeling he's a real straight shooter and he always let's you know exactly what he's thinking. Listened to an interesting session on rapid web development in TurboGears, looks like I need to learn Python now so I can explore TurboGears a little further. The second session I sat in on was 'the end of n-tier' which was basically a parallel processing, grid computing, cache product to place the different tiers in. The lunch keynote was a little off the wall yet still intriging Bruce Eckel was attempting to expamd our minds and they way we think about programming. After lunch I sat in on a session called 'Beyond TDD' which I thought was going to be about taking TDD to the next level, but was actually just contemplating the side effects of TDD (Trust, Documentation, etc...) still good, just not what I was expecting. My last session of the day was on a source control product called Subversion, sounds like something I need to check into further, but I don't know if I can get my head around not checking out exclusively. Dinner was awesome, good food, good conversation, I ate with Dave Pease, Darrel Hawley, and I met two java programmers from Columbus, Jonathan and Bryan, Jonathan was trying to explain dependency injection to us, and when I say trying I mean I still don't get it. Looking forward to tomorrow, Scott Guthrie is going to be here talking about LINQ.
Scott
Ann Arbor .Net Developers Member
Got here yesterday with my colleage Dave Pease checked in to the Kalahari Resort, this place is pretty great! A large indoor waterpark, gameroom, and putt-putt. But what was even better was the panel of speakers they had there. Some of the best and brightest in PHP, Ruby, C#, Python, Java and Flex. What was so great was how civil it was, no language zealots, no arguments, there were a few digs, but the entire panel was very informed and accepting of different languages and where each had it's good points and bad. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Scott
AADND Member
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