Scott’s keynote on LINQ was very cool. The concept of using specific keywords for data access (the what not the how) is one of those things that when you see it, you ask why noone’s really done it before. I hope other languages and platforms really do pick it up and run with it.
Read more...Well, since I had to check out I’m now lugging my laptop around. So you’ll get some live blogging from CodeMash today! Yesterday’s dinner and after dinner was very cool. I got to meet the pyOraGeek herself, Catherine Devlin. We were both looking for the OpenSpace meeting on Social Networking but couldn’t end up finding it (the location on the post-it looked like it read “laguorauer”), so I ended up at Joe Brinkman’s OpenSpace on Open Source on .NET.
Read more...Today’s been really interesting, a lot of good talks. I was out a bit late last night with some of the people from CodeMash, very cool group. I felt very inadequate being at the same table as some of those really smart guys and it was awesome of them to let me hang around. Luckily one of the guys there hadn’t eaten dinner yet either, and since organizing a conference endows the organizers with amazing powers, I was able to get dinner after the kitchen closed. So after stumbling to my room around 1:30am, I didn’t notice that the alarm clock was 12 hours off. Needless to say my alarm didn’t go off at 6:30 am like I expected. So I work up around 8:00am and had to rush to get down in time for breakfast.
Read more...Just got back from the expert panel on languages, it was most enjoyable. I think they did a pretty good job. I would say Bruce Eckle and Neal Ford pretty much stole the show, but everyone was very informative and entertaining. One of the interesting things I heard was the rise of Domain Specific Languages, something that’s been rattling around in the back of my head for work. The only real complaint so far is the wireless connection, it does to drop alot. For instance I’ve been fighting to upload pictures to flickr for almost a whole hour. Anyway, I’ve been taking pictures, here’s the flickr link. Feel free to tag ‘em up!
Read more...I’m here! I already had a chance to play the Nintendo Wii since I signed up to win one ;) I’ll be the guy taking pictures and posting them to flickr.
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