{"id":334,"date":"2011-01-10T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-01-10T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:44:30","slug":"pre-codemash-2011-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/2011\/01\/10\/pre-codemash-2011-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Codemash 2011 Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/codemash.org\">Codemash<\/a> this year.  Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonecrossingsolutions.com\/\">my work<\/a> for sending me.  Founders like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffblankenburg.com\/\">Jeff Blankenburg<\/a> do a great job putting this conference together.  <\/p>\n<p>Last year, I concentrated on TDD\/BDD, Silverlight, ORM, Ruby sessions with a few others thrown in for fun.  This year, I&#8217;m still going through the schedule.  I&#8217;d like to sit in on some mobile presentations, but I&#8217;m just not sure how much time in 2011 I&#8217;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&#8217;ve sat in on some topics I wasn&#8217;t interested in and found the content to be great, and vice versa. For example, I wasn&#8217;t that interested in prism, but <a href=\"http:\/\/houseofbilz.com\/\">Brian Genisio<\/a> gave a great talk on it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard being away from my family for 3 days, but I really enjoyed this conference last year, and it&#8217;s good to get a perspective on what other developers are up to.  And on the positive side this year, I&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>Finally, I look forward to struggling for bandwidth for 3 days.  When geeks get together for a conference, there&#8217;s not much to go around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;m still going through the schedule. I&#8217;d like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[122,69],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-codemash","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}