ArbCamp 2008, to be held Thursday December 18, is still open for registration! It had sold out, but they were able to find a larger space and re-open registration.
See the following note from the organizers:
After selling out in 3 short weeks, and facing the prospect of turning
away 100 waitlisted attendees, we've changed venues to accomodate
everyone!
Thanks to SPARK, we have a new location for ArbCamp on the edge of
campus - Cottage Inn at 512 E William St, Ann Arbor (just a few blocks
from the original SPARK location). Please join us this Thursday at 6
PM, and direct anybody else who might be interested in an evening of
intense speed geeking and community building to register for ArbCamp
08!
http://a2geeks.org/display/geek/ArbCamp+08
Monthly Archives: December 2008
CodeMash 2009
Just a reminder that today is the last day to register for CodeMash with an alumni discount code. Regular pricing ($175) is in effect after today. While still a great deal, keep in mind that we're limited to 500 attendees and approaching that number QUICKLY.
Maggie Longshore, an esteemed member of the software development community, posted a great post today, "Why I wish I were Hermione at CodeMash", listing the sessions that she's planning to attend (and wishing she had a "TimeTurner" to be able to go to more than one talk at a time). I loved her post, not only because I'm thrilled to have such great content at CodeMash, but also because I was feeling that same tug. So I decided to play along.
So here's my "If I were Hermione Granger at CodeMash …" post. I decided to limit myself to my top 2 choices, in spite of having 4 that I wanted to attend in some time blocks. Those were HARD choices! Even Hermione couldn't be THAT adept, could she? And, of course, I want to leave time for Open Spaces as well!
(Please note that the schedule may change, so don't use this schedule for planning purposes)
Wednesday:
Full-Day
CodeJam: Gary Bernhardt, Sarah Dutkiewicz, Joe Fiorini, Corey Haines, John Stockton
.NET 101 With Jeff Blankenburg and Josh Holmes
Java, Groovy, and Grails 101
AM
iPhone Development 101
Test-driven Development 101 With Leon Gersing
Turning the Ship With Dave Donaldson
PM
Kanban 101
iPhone Development 101
Test-driven Development 101 With Phil Japikse
Value Stream Mapping Workshop With Mary Poppendieck
Thursday
8:15am to 9:30am
KEYNOTE #1: Eric Meyer: JavaScript Will Save Us All
9:45am to 10:45am
Dynamic Hyper-Video in Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
Introducing Agile for Real World Programmers (Greg Huber)
Programming in Scala (Venkat Subramanian)
Introducing the iPhone SDK (Chris Adamson)
Introducing the Live Mesh SDK (Jeff Blankenburg)
Adobe Flex Fundamentals (TBA)
11am to 12pm
Re-thinking UI: WPF Data Templates (Carey Payette)
Three Tips to Improve Your Dev Process (Jim Holmes)
Introducing Prototype and Scriptaculous (Leon Gersing)
Developing JoeMetric for the iPhone (Joe O'Brien)
Pumping Iron into Python: Intro to FePy (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Developing for the Microsoft Surface (Jennifer Marsman)
Dynamic Languages and the JVM (Nathaniel Schutta)
12:15pm to 1:30pm
LUNCH + KEYNOTE #2: Venkat Subramanian: Pointy-Haired Bosses and Pragmatic Programmers—Facts and Fallacies of Everyday Software Development
1:45pm to 2:45pm
Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications (Richard Campbell)
Thrashing (Mary Poppendieck)
Erlang: The Basics (Kevin Smith)
Groovy/Grails for non-Java Developers (Mike Kimsal)
Python Data Visualization and Imaging (Zach Steindler)
Well, Isn't that Spatial (SQL Server Spatial Data) (Jason Follas)
Adobe Flex with MVC Frameworks (Robert O'Malley)
3:35pm to 4:35pm
Demystifying Windows Communications Foundation (Keith Elder)
Soft Skillz (Brian Prince)
Managed Extensibility Framework (Drew Robbins)
IPhone Web Development with Grails (Chris Judd)
Practical Scala (Dianne Marsh)
What? Threads Are Hard? (Jim Weirich)
Functional Concepts for OOP Developers (Bryan Weber)
4:50pm to 5:50pm
Modeling Types with Extension Methods (Bill Wagner)
CI: More than just a toolset (Jay Harris)
Griffon in Front, Grails in Back (Jim Shingler)
Ruby Desktop Application Framework (Lance Carlson)
Microsoft Virtual Earth, Now in 3D! (Aydin Akcasu)
Drupal at Zattoo: A Case Study (Chris Cassell)
Friday
8:15am to 9:30am
KEYNOTE #3: Mads Torgersen: One Big Happy Family – Where are the Managed .NET Programming Languages Heading?
9:45am to 10:45am
Dev Guide: Skinning Silverlight Controls (Jesse Liberty)
Practices of an Agile Developer (Venkat Subramanian)
Grease, a Parallel Systems Architecture (Vielmetti)
Testing Rails (Joe O'Brien)
JVM Scripting with Jython (Mark Ramm)
Test Infecting the Legacy Organization (Nathaniel Schutta)
IronRuby in the Real World (Michael Letterle)
11am to 12pm
Guerilla SOA for WCF (Joshua Graham)
Language-Oriented DDD (David Laribee)
Networking and Communications in Silverlight (John Stockton)
Cool Stuff with Computer Vision (Scott Preston)
Rich Apps with Groovy Swingbuilder (Andres Almiray)
1:45pm to 2:45pm
Deep LINQ: C# Query Expression Pattern (Bill Wagner)
Improving Web Application Performance and Stability (Steve Smith)
Spring 2.5 MVC (Ken Sipe)
Actor Concurrency (Alex Miller)
Introducing BazaarNG (Mike Woelmer and Jay Wren)
A Look Inside Microsoft Labs: Photosynth, Deep Zoom, Live Mesh, and More (Jeff Blankenburg)
A Programmer's Guide to User Experience (Josh Walsh)
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Multi-threading Mojo with F# (Dustin Campbell)
Executable Documentation with easyb (Andrew Glover)
Cloud Computing with .NET (Wesley Faler)
Modern Web Applications with .NET (Drew Robbins)
Ruby Isn't Just About Rails (Adam Wiggins)
Reverse Engineering Applications (Joe Kuemerle)