January 2008 - Posts
It's been a couple of weeks since CodeMash . Since then I've had a little time to collect my thoughts and reflect. In addition to the normal things that you'd expect to get from a great conference like CodeMash (like some education, meeting some great people, and some great converstations) I put together this list of some other things that might happen to you at a cool event: 1. Attend CodeMash, win an Xbox 360 . I have nothing more to say about that especially since Joe walked away from CodeMash...
I have four (3-shelf) bookshelves in my home office that are on the verge of overflowing with books. There is an entire bookshelf just for books that I have not read yet, but need to. Apparently I'm something of a book nut. I hadn't really noticed it myself, though. I figured it was just something that came with the job. I've been meaning to clean out old books for a while now, but my wife recently mandated that I must get rid of a bunch of old ones before I can add any new ones. I new she was serious...
I know I'm joining this tirade party late. Joe Wirtley has preached it before (in fact almost exactly a year ago) and I know I've heard others proclaim the same. I'm a convert after bumping into a ton of people at CodeMash who I think that I know (from their blogs) but not with absolute certainty because I have no idea what they look like. Please put a photo of yourself somewhere obvious on your blog. If not on every page then on the home page or at least the "About" page. If I don't know what you...
I finally found my way home from CodeMash around noon on Saturday. I stayed an extra night because I didn't want to drive home Friday night the 3+ hours to Cincinnati. I really felt like wuss after hearing that the guy who drove in 13 hours from South Dakota for the event was driving out Friday night. My normal position during "free" time was attached at the hip to Joe Wirtley , Mike Eaton and Clark Marx (the self-proclaimed "Anti-Community" community member). But I did get to meet and talk to a...