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For the last three days I’ve been in Omaha attending and presenting at HDC09. It’s a great event and this year followed in that tradition. Joe Olsen tried the “lighting round” idea with four 30 minute talks in a row in the afternoon - it’s an idea that I may try (in a slighty different way) at a future Twin Cities Code Camp. I gave two talks, “Assembly Coercion” and “Evolving .NET”. You can read the reviews here. Overall the response seems more positive than negative although I think I really pissed someone off because I showed the “crocoduck” picture in the “Evolving .NET” talk and made a little jab at Kirk Cameron as well. Oh well … you’d think if someone was a hard-core creationist going to a talk about evolutionary programming they shouldn’t expect that the material and the presenter would be championing creationism. Can’t please everyone :).
On the way home, Donn Felker decided to implement the real-time evaluation system for TCCC7 (Chris Williams, Donn and I drove down there together). I really liked the idea to provide feedback as soon as the presentation is done. Chris and I also discussed some ideas to bring in more “financial assistance” for future TCCC events. It’ll be a slight change from the traditional format of a Code Camp, but frankly I think this kind of change is needed, especially given the state of the economy. More information will be given at TCCC7.
Published: 10.17.2009 01:03:04 PM CST