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- CG's CodeMash Adventures: Morning of Day 0January 7
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As I check out Is it CodeMash yet?, I see that the day has finally come. Yesterday, when I arrived at the Kalahari Conference Center, I was totally at a loss for words. This place is larger than life, simply amazing. I have had many people tell me about the awesomeness of CodeMash, and I think I'll see why they said all that they did.
Last night, I met some of the guys that Joe Fiorini talks about on Twitter. I also met some of the people who follow me on Twitter. It was great to meet the guys last night, and I look forward to meeting more people today. I'm not good at the initial face and name recognition, so please don't be offended if I don't say hi right away - come by and introduce yourself!
I will be hanging out at the CodeJam for a bit of the day. So if you're attending the Precompiler, come to the Indigo room and hack with us there!
Later tonight, there'll be a Panel Discussion and the .NET Rocks! Show with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, so if you're arriving later, check that out.
This is my first CodeMash, and I'm definitely looking forward to see what's in store. I hope to blog throughout the event, and I will be taking pictures as well. So for pictures, keep an eye on - CG's CodeMash Countdown: Final ThoughtsJanuary 6
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Tomorrow is the start of my first CodeMash experience, at the Precompiler. There are so many tutorials that I want to check out, but I will mostly be hiding out in the CodeJam.
It all started in 2007, when my buddy Russ from work told me about CodeMash. He's gone to past CodeMashes, and whenever he talks about it, his excitement gets to me. I didn't meet him in time for 2007, but he could have talked me into 2008. However, I also was uncertain of my vacation time and how I would handle taking time off with my husband. Lame excuses, I know... but I didn't go to CodeMash in 2008.
Of course, I met more people who reminded me of my epic fail - including Jeff Blankenburg, Mike Eaton, Michael Letterle, and Joe O'Brien. Thanks to the push from all of these guys (and all the others who helped), I made it a point to set the dates aside. But I had talked with one of my friends earlier in the year, and he had figured that I'd go and enjoy my first year as an attendee and worry about presenting there the following year. As much as that sounded like a good idea, I knew better - it was pretty much expected that I'd submit talks for it.
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Today's countdown feature is the event known as Open Spaces.
While looking at the CodeMash schedule, you may find yourself not interested in any of the topics in a particular time slot. If you find yourself in that position, I'd recommend you check out Open Spaces and see what's going on there.
What are Open Spaces?
As noted in the Heartland Open Spaces wiki:
"The open-space meeting or open space meeting is a generic term describing a wide variety of different styles of meeting in which participants define the agenda with a relatively rigorous process, and may adjust it as the meeting proceeds. A large meeting of this sort is called an open space conference or unconference."
- From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_meeting
What can I expect?
Go with an open mind and some ideas, and come out enlightened. Although topics aren't decided until the conference itself (based on whatever participants propose), you may have ideas that you want to talk about. Propose a topic, post it on the open spaces board, and show up at the time you plan on talking. Or if someone else proposes a topic you're interested in talking about, check out their session.
- Dude, I'm Not Getting a Dell - Part 2January 4
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I've chronicled my journey so far with Dude, I'm Not Getting a Dell - Part 1. It doesn't help the situation that the rep is on vacation, and all that his backup can do is say that it will ship soon. How long does it take to come up with a real explanation for the delay? And why are they evading the question?
They have put free overnight shipping on the order supposedly, but at this point, it doesn't matter. I don't have time to prep a new machine in time to use it for CodeMash. The damage is done - they haven't conveyed a reason at all for the delay.
This experience is enough for me to never consider buying a Dell for a personal purchase - not even with our employee purchase program. Although they may make decent quality hardware, their lack in communication to the customer when it comes to delays is enough to make me want to take my business elsewhere.
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Apparently I'm not the only one out there seeing Dell's shipping issues. I hope others who search this see this thread on the Consumerist before they even consider buying a Dell Mini 9. - CG's CodeMash Countdown: Python, Jython, and IronPythonJanuary 4
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Last year, I wanted to learn another programming language. A part of me wanted to learn Ruby, since the cool kids were all doing it. But at the same time, I wanted to be different. One of my friends recommended that I look at python. When I saw that there was a .NET implementation, I decided to explore IronPython. Since about March of 2008, I've been reading up on IronPython and presenting on it a little in the area.
This year, I hope to get my IronPython resources section together here on CodingGeekette.com and blog about it a bit more. I will be talking about IronPython at CodeMash, PyCon, and quite possibly PyOhio. If other people want to hear me talk on it, just send me an email at sarah at codinggeekette dot com.
While looking at the session list, I noticed that there's a python implementation that's written in Java - Jython.
So today's languages are python, its Java implementation, and its .NET implementation.
Language: Python
Website: Python Programming Language -- Official Site
Language: Jython
Website: The Jython Project
Language: IronPython
Website: