Speaking at Codestock
June 15, 2008
Exciting news - I’ll be presenting an introduction to Grails at the upcoming Codestock conference in Knoxville this August! The site doesn’t have full details yet, but I was just notified this morning that my submission was accepted. I’d actually submitted 3 options - my SOLR presentation, a “Continuous Integration with PHP” topic, and an introduction to Grails. The Grails topic was selected.
I’d like to thank Alan Stevens for the invitation to submit in the first place. I was a bit hesitant at first because the conference seemed very .net oriented. It’s being sponsored by the area .net user group, which makes sense. Alan let me know that they were looking for cross-platform topics, not just .net ones. However, it seems I may be the only topic that’s not directly related to Microsoft technologies. James Avery is presenting “10 Open Source tools you should use” - not sure if those are 10 tools in general, or 10 tools aimed at Windows developers (either way, I’m sure he’ll have a good list!). There’s another presentation on Mono and ASP.net. I’m the only Java-based presentation though. I hope it’s not too much of a ‘fish out of water’ thing.
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June 16th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I don’t think you need to worry too much, if anything I’ll bug you about Lucene and SOLR (I use lucene.net in a number of places and have been working it into a session myself).
June 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I think you’ll find that a lot of people come to these events to learn, regardless of the platform. Then there are others that only come to learn about things they can use in their day jobs. Those that like learning new things will show up, those don’t don’t won’t. It is pretty cut and dry. Of course the edge case is you may get someone attend because there were no other sessions that interested them.
I wanted to speak at CodeStock but with DevLink a few weeks later it is tough to make two long trips like that. I’m still up in the air.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Cool - if you’re coming it’d be good to catch up again. Twice in one year!