Today was the official start of CodeMash with the panel last night as a day zero type event. I’ve already blogged about the morning keynote, so I’ll just skip that and move on the rest of the day.
The first session I missed out on as I was in the Expert’s Zone. Bill Wagner and I (ok, so mostly Bill) spoke to a few guys about a system they were working on.
This morning Neal Ford gave the first keynote of CodeMash. His talk was Software “Engineering” & Polyglot Programming. The talk was excellent. Here are the quick bullet points that I took away from the talk:
Focus on the platform and use the languages that work with that platform that make sense. For example, if you choose .Net as your platform you can choose from VB.Net, C#, Iron Python, F#, etc. You may find that F# fits your needs for a particular problem, but C# fits better for others.
I’m here at CodeMash 2008 in Sandusky. I’d like to say it was a beautiful drive, but in reality it was quite boring. Not much to look at. I did get caught up on my .Net Rocks episodes though.
The IT world is very small and even coming all the way up to Sandusky I ran into a host of people I know: Bill Wagner, Josh Holmes, Jeff Blankenburg, Jim Holmes, Joe Wirtley, Dan Hounshell, Dustin Campbell, Brian Sherwin, Jason Follas, Darrell Hawley, Dave Giard, etc.