CodeMash 2007 was great! I had a blast. The keynotes were excellent, the sessions I went to were excellent, the resort was excellent. The only thing that sucked was the food (come one guys, at least give us something hot!).
The big themes of the conference were definitely DSLs and SOA. I particularly liked the Joe [...]
Presented by: Scott Guthrie
These are “live” notes and necessarily rough.
Today’s Problem: Data != Objects
Traditional data access includes a mixture of languages (SQL and native code), arguments loosely bound, results loosely typed, compiler cannot help catch mistakes and queries in quotes within the code.
In LINQ, classes describe data. There is encapsulated business validation. A [...]
Presented by: Joe O’Brien
These are “live” notes and necessarily rough.
Three Step Process to Get Ruby into the Enterprise
Developer’s Helper Enterprise Glue Application Development
Developer’s Helper
Ruby the language Rake Capistrano
Ruby the language
every developer [...]
Presented by: Bill Wagner
These are “live” notes and necessarily rough.
Google for PLINQ, for an interview.
Closure: a combination of a function and its executing environment (not precise definition) Yield Return: syntactic sugar for iterator pattern.
Real World Use of Functional Programming
enumeration of the input operation on that input [...]
Presented by: Neal Ford
These are “live” notes and necessarily a bit rough.
Haven’t we done distributed computing before? Why hasn’t this worked?
Because of:
Vendor proprietariness
OMG tried to create multi-vendor CORBA, but couldn’t get major vendor to cooperative (Microsoft)
Opaque transport
binary transport [...]
Presented by: Scott Guthrie
These are some “live” notes, written during the presentation. They will, necessarily, be a bit rough.
Introductions. “Scott, the father of ASP.NET”
LINQ is a new way to think about data that has ideas applicable to other languages, not just .NET languages.
Working with Data
Querying and manipulating data is fundamental part of a [...]
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Day 2 Begins, originally uploaded by Neo0ptik.
Scott is about to start.
There were some great sessions today. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.
In the evening, Chas and I checked out the Arcade they had downstairs. Very fun. They even had Galaga and Ms. Pacman!
More pictures are forthcoming. So, check out the Flickr feed. Eventually, I’ll get a plugin to work with Wordpress [...]
Presented by: David Stanek
This was a short presentation, but it gave me a lot of ideas for projects. Python is a language that I’ve wanted to learn more about for a long time, but haven’t had the time to dive into. I’ve only developed a tiny bit with it and even then, mostly [...]
Presented by: Greg Huber
This was another pretty lame talk. It was MS specific, of course. The AJAX library is neat and the demos helped me better understand how it works and hence how to develop it. That may come in handy with the Rich Media Converter Project upgrade and for that, it was worth paying [...]