Van, The Silicon Valley Code Camp sounds great! I wish that I weren't in the middle of a product delivery... I would head out for it. Definitely putting it on my list for next year.
Dianne On Sep 29, 8:24 pm, Van Riper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
