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Attending CodeMash

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby and PHP.

According to some, this is the must attend developer event of the year. I’ve never been so I can’t attest to this assertion but people I respect tell me it’s really worth attending. I’ll be attending all three days.

Looking at the agenda, the focus appears to very wide.

• Ruby Isn’t Just About Rails (Adam Wiggins)
• Actor Concurrency (Alex Miller)
• Rich Apps with Groovy’s SwingBuilder (Andres Almiray)
• MS Robotics Studio vs. The Antique Robot (Andrew Craze)
• Executable documentation with easyb (Andrew Glover)
• Microsoft Virtual Earth, Now in 3D (Aydin Akcasu)
• deep LINQ: C# query expression pattern (Bill Wagner)
• Modeling types with extension methods (Bill Wagner)
• Soft Skillz (Brian Prince)

• Refactoring Java with JRuby (Brian Sam-Bodden)

• Ruby Web Components with Trellis (Brian Sam-Bodden)
• Functional Concepts for OOP Developers (Bryan Weber)
• Re-thinking UI - WPF DataTemplates (Carey Payette)
• Introducing the iPhone SDK (Chris Adamson)
• Introducing Drupal: A Look Inside Zattoo’s Drupal Implementation (Chris Cassell)
• iPhone Web Development with Grails (Christopher M. Judd)
• JRuby and the Infinite Toolbox (Clinton R. Nixon)
• Silverlight 2 Architectural Best Practices (David J Kelley)
• Language Oriented DDD (David Laribee)

• Practical Scala (Dianne Marsh)

• Managed Extensibility Framework (Drew Robbins)
• Modern Web Applications with .NET (Drew Robbins)
• Multi-threading Mojo with F# (Dustin Campbell)
• Grease, a parallel systems architecture (Edward Vielmetti)
• Introducing Agile for Real World Developers (Greg Huber)
• Well, Isn’t that Spatial… (SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data) (Jason Follas)
• CI: More than just a toolset (Jay Harris)
• A Look Inside Microsoft Labs: Photosynth, Deep Zoom, Live Mesh, and More (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introducing the LiveMesh SDK (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Developing for Microsoft Surface (Jennifer Marsman)

• Dev Guide: Skinning Silverlight Controls (Jesse Liberty)
• Dynamic Hyper-Video in Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
• Three Tips to Improve Your Dev Process (Jim Holmes)
• Griffon in front, Grails in back (Jim Shingler)
• What? Threads Are Hard? (Jim Weirich)
• Reverse Engineering Applications (Joe Kuemerle)
• Developing JoeMetric for the iPhone (Joe O’Brien)
• Testing Rails (Joe O’Brien)
• A Programmers Guide to User Experience (Josh Walsh)

• Guerilla SOA for WCF (Joshua Graham)

• Demystifying Windows Communication Foundation (Keith Elder)
• Spring 2.5 MVC (Ken Sipe)
• Erlang: The Basics (Kevin Smith)
• Ruby Desktop Application Framework (Lance Carlson)
• Introducing Prototype and Scriptaculous (Leon Gersing)
• JVM scripting with Jython (Mark Ramm)
• Thrashing (Mary Poppendieck)
• Groovy/Grails for non-Java developers (Michael Kimsal)
• IronRuby In The Real World (Michael Letterle)

• Test Infecting the Legacy Organization (Nathaniel Schutta)

• Dynamic Languages and the JVM (Nathaniel Schutta)
• Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications (Richard Campbell)
• Adobe Flex with MVC Frameworks (Robert A. O’Malley)
• Clean Code Ruby (Robert C. Martin)
• Pumping Iron into Python: Intro to FePy (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Cool Stuff With Computer Vision (Scott Preston)
• Improving Web Application Performance and Scalability (Steve Smith)
• Practices of an Agile Developer (Venkat Subramaniam)
• Programming in Scala (Venkat Subramaniam)
• Cloud Computing with .Net (Wesley Faler)
• Python Data Visualization and Imaging (Zach Steindler)

Looks like it’s going to be a solid three days of hard hitting knowledge transfer. If you’re going, let me know and maybe we can get together for a little geek meet.