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
