On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Alex Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > CodeMash is a great conference. I spoke there this year and enjoyed > the trip (other than the biting cold and the speeding ticket :). > > As far as where else to hear cross-technology talks, I would also > recommend Strange Loop in St. Louis Oct 22-23rd which covers a broad > range of technologies. http://thestrangeloop.com I am biased being > the organizer. :) This aspect of CodeMash was certainly an > inspiration for Strange Loop.
I am admittedly biased, but, Silicon Valley Code Camp has evolved into quite the co-mingling of .NET and Java developer communities coming together for one weekend a year here in Silicon Valley. It has evolved from the first year that was 2/3rds .NET and everything else to today where it is about 1/3 .NET, 1/3 Java, and 1/3 everything else. It is a free weekend event coming up this very weekend and we have almost 150 developer sessions submitted and more than 1400 developers signed up to attend. As a free event, we will have some no shows. Still, I am expecting close to 1000 developers this weekend. Here is the summary schedule view of all the sessions: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SessionsOverview.aspx On top of everything else, we are having a Cloud Computing Unconference in conjunction with camp that runs all day on Sunday. -Van > > Alex > > > On Sep 27, 8:50 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ironic that the Posse took time at the beginning of JavaPosse #280 to >> talk about CodeMash and its venue, the Kalahari Resort, as I just got >> back from taking my family to the Kalahari for the weekend. >> >> A few head-nods and follow-ons below: >> >> * The conference is fascinating. They are really determined to get >> the various camps mingling, so none of the topics really has enough >> talks to be a track unto itself: you could maybe do Microsoft stuff >> and ignore everything else (but it's a stretch... you'd have to count >> stuff like IronPython sessions), and there's certainly not enough on >> Ruby/Python, Java, or anything else to do those to the exclusion of >> other platforms. Last year, I drifted into a security session that >> described some similar attack vectors in both Java and .NET, and I >> wondered "where else am I even going to hear this talk?" >> >> * That said, you guys are right about the prominence of .NET. >> Microsoft is a major sponsor (last year they brought the Rock Band >> tournament on Xbox with serious prizes), and this conference seems to >> be a key part of their platforms' Midwest presence. Still, they do >> play nicely with others. Beyond .NET, the other camps in attendance >> are the agile scripting languages (Ruby/Python), Java, and Flash/Flex >> (saw the omnipresent James Ward there last year). The OS X platforms >> (Mac/iPhone) may emerge as another significant presence. >> >> * The Kalahari Resort really is amazing. The Posse mentioned the >> indoor waterpark (at 180,000 square feet, the biggest in the US), but >> beyond that, there's lots of stuff to do: an immense game room, a huge >> climbing structure for the kids, three or four restaurants, a spa, >> pottery and other craft activities for the kids, etc. The service is >> also really impressive: the staff presence reminds me of Disney on a >> good day. But you're not isolated: go two miles up OH-250 for >> groceries, and the usual chain restaurants. >> >> * As for Sandusky... if you're not from the Midwest, here's the deal: >> it's along Lake Erie, between Cleveland and Toledo. If you're flying >> in, you're probably coming into Cleveland (45 min), though it's also >> possible to fly into <strike>Toledo (1 hr)</strike> or Detroit (1.5 >> hrs). By car, it'd be a reasonable drive (< 5 hrs) from Chicago, >> Detroit, Indianapolis, PIttsburgh, or Cincinnati. Weather is sub- >> freezing in January, but temperate because it's on the east side of >> the Great Lakes (weather.com tells me average January high of 32F [0C] >> and low of 19F [-7C]). Snow or freezing rain can hose your travel >> plans -- weather was bad last year -- so leave yourself a day to get >> there, just in case. >> >> Glad to hear some of the Posse is coming. Hope to see you there. >> >> --Chris > > > -- | Michael "Van" Riper | JUG-USA Interim President | http://www.meetup.com/jug-usa/ ---- | Silicon Valley Web JUG | mailto:[email protected] | http://www.meetup.com/sv-web-jug/ ---- | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group | mailto:[email protected] | http://www.meetup.com/sv-gtug/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
