I’m looking forward to Codemash this year. Thanks again to my work for sending me. Founders like Jeff Blankenburg do a great job putting this conference together.
Last year, I concentrated on TDD/BDD, Silverlight, ORM, Ruby sessions with a few others thrown in for fun. This year, I’m still going through the schedule. I’d like to sit in on some mobile presentations, but I’m just not sure how much time in 2011 I’ll really have to spend with it. Primary goals this year are: I want to try to network more in the evenings, focus on good content, and try to capture as much as I can so I remember to go back and investigate good topics after the conference. One of the things I learned last year that should help: speakers make the presentation, not the topic. I’ve sat in on some topics I wasn’t interested in and found the content to be great, and vice versa. For example, I wasn’t that interested in prism, but Brian Genisio gave a great talk on it.
It’s hard being away from my family for 3 days, but I really enjoyed this conference last year, and it’s good to get a perspective on what other developers are up to. And on the positive side this year, I’m going there without a cold. Now if I can manage to stay healthy, after all last year there was an epidemic at the conference.
Finally, I look forward to struggling for bandwidth for 3 days. When geeks get together for a conference, there’s not much to go around…