Digging My Blog

It's a late Saturday night in early January and I'm drinking a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, downloading the Windows 7 Beta, catching up on my RSS reader, doing a year-end inventory and analysis and thinking about my goals for the new year. The "new year's goals" thing may seem a bit late, but I've learned...

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...

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...

I attended the CodeMash conference last year and it was phenomenal. I highly recommend this year's version for anyone within a day's drive. Site: http://codemash.org Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/codemash CodeMash is a "non-denominational" regional conference with presentations about everything...

I mentioned in a previous post that I was dreaming up a new presentation. I had a great time at CodeMash last year and really enjoyed doing my first presentation at a conference along with Joe . The CodeMash organizers will be taking submissions for presentations soon and I recently learned that a November...

"... we may have more in common than we think" from the leader of a Python user group to the rest of the virtual CodeMash Google Group audience. I tried to avoid the philosophical "we are the world" mumbo-jumbo that surrounded the CodeMash conference. Really, I'm a .NET guy and I was there to learn some...

As I sit down to write this post, " codemash " is the number #1 searched term on Technorati . To say our little grassroots, non-denominational, cross-platform/language conference was a success would be an understatement. I wrote "our conference", but I really had little to do with it besides present...

Scott Gu 's keynote presentation on LINQ was great! As was his ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks presentation. Next for me was Dave Donaldson 's NHibernate presentation. Dave's presentations are always a pleasure to attend and learning something about NHibernate was a bonus, especially since that is one of...

Bruce Eckel 's after lunch keynote speech was great, too. It was all about thinking outside the box, experimenting, and kind of like applying principles from the design world into development. It was very motivating. After that I attended Ben Carey 's presentation, Beyond TDD: Exploring Its Benefits...

Neal Ford 's keynote presentation on Domain Specific Languages and Language Oriented Programming was great. Neal is a great speaker and a very smart guy! In fact, I'm sitting beside him in the speaker's room right now listening to him shoot the breeze about old Delphi days and some past presentations...

Jim's post and picture explain it all. He looks like a happy man, doesn't he? I'll write some more about the book a bit later - like where you can go to meet a large bunch of people who contributed to it as well as the two authors....

James Avery posts that he will be doing a session at CodeMash and he's offering to buy beer for everyone who attends* !! *See James' post for details . :)...

We got the answer we were waiting for today - we will be presenting at CodeMash ! Looks like there is a lot of stuff going on over at the CodeMash site - lots of announcements: Dave Donaldson will be doing an NHibernate presentation. Bill Wagner will be doing a presentation. Microsoft, IBM, and Sun as...