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You won’t want to miss us at CodeMash!
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Next week is CodeMash 2012 – January 11-13 at the cool Kalahari resort in Sandusky, OH. Don’t worry, it’s cool you have no idea where that is because in Ohio you’ll never go outside in January anyway.
If you’re already planning on attending, that’s fabulous – we’ll be all over, just look for the guys in the dark blue polos. If you weren’t planning on it, you should – you might find some late minute tickets from people that couldn’t make it.
Whats on tap from us at CodeMash? A bunch of things:
- Gary and I are presenting some of our more popular sessions
- We’ll be demoing Gibraltar 3.0 – with a number of updates not in the previous betas and the first public preview of a completely new part of Gibraltar (oooh!). Stop by our booth and see everything that’s new before its public release.
- We’ll be showing off the first experiment to escape from Gibraltar Labs (find out what it is at CodeMash – it’s nothing like anything we’ve done before!)
- We’ll be running a contest to help us name our new experiment before it can be released into the wild. Come up with the best name and you’ll get a new Kindle Fire.
- Along with a few other exhibitors we’ll be part of ButtonMash – stop by our booth to pick up one of our buttons to be entered into the ButtonMash raffle for some really neat prizes.
And that’s just *our* part of the event. Wow, I’m gettin’ tired just thinking about it.
Conversation with Scott Hanselman at Hanselminutes
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I had the good fortune to be invited to chat with Scott Hanselman about what it’s like to create a software company as part of his ongoing series on startups. In a quick 30 minutes we talked through anumber of the angles of what it’s like to go all in on a startup. It was great to hear that even Microsoft, with all of their resources, has many of the same problems we do just at a much larger scale.
I’m going to be doing an extended version of a talk on the same subject at the New York City Code Camp next weekend called Creating Your Own Software Company: A Survival Guide. Come on out and you can hear that session, grill me at length afterwards, and hear four even better speakers all in one day. Code Camps are the best kept secret in software development today; if you aren’t hunting them out in your area you’re missing a great opportunity…
Later in October I’m on a pretty intense two week tour – starting in Philadelphia and ending in Coventry, UK. You can see the full list for an event near you on our events page.
Spring 2011 UK Trip Roundup
Posted by: | CommentsDDD Scotland
It was a real pleasure to be selected to speak at a UK community event through the votes of the community. The event was well run, and as is the tradition in the UK was sold out with a waiting list. If you’re in the UK (or can easily get there) you really should check out the community events up there – see the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper site for the scoop on what’s coming up.
There were a number of great sessions – you can see slides and follow up from several of them online.
I’m thrilled at the feedback I got (which you can read here). I was worried many of my examples and illustrations in my session wouldn’t work in the UK but it seems to have done well enough.
I really felt the missing 10 minutes compared to a typical Code Camp presentation in the United States; you could tell I was just short on time.
User Group Presentations
Outside of the large DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event I was honored to be invited to present at several user groups:
Each of these groups (independently, spooky..) selected a new presentation I’ve been working up entitled the Natural Laws of Software Performance. The big change for this round of presentations was the addition of a number of code samples.
The code samples were both great and problematic. What I didn’t realize was how incredibly sensitive they were to how Visual Studio was being used and the state of my laptop. For example, if the laptop was on battery I got one set of numbers, A/C with the big brick adapter got me another and if I was using my slim travel adapter, well.. just awful results. That’s what I get for building the demo on my desktop workstation. Additionally, for the folks at DotNetDevNet and NEBytes, a bug in the demo caused it to report too-good-to-be-true results for later tests. That’s addressed now, sorry for the confusion.
I was genuinely impressed with the user groups – everyone was fabulously welcoming which made the whole experience much easier. Each group had a different feel, which made it all the better. If you have a change to make a trip to the UK, don’t just hang around London – there’s some great variety and nice people all over the country.
If you’re near any of the groups above I’d encourage you to check them out. Some are free, some charge a nominal membership fee, but they’re a great way to connect with professionals doing real things with technology.
Finally, it as great to meet up with some of our customers along the way. I know some of you drove quite a distance to make it to an event or made time in your schedules when I was in town and I really appreciate it. We’ll be incorporating your input into our product roadmaps to ensure we’re always getting better at the things that matter to you.
Natural Laws of Software Performance at DotNetDevNet
Posted by: | CommentsHad a great time presenting at DotNetDevNet in Bristol last night – thanks to everyone for coming out from all over southern England.
You can see the slides below and Download the Parallel Processing Demo.
