For the second Codemash pre-compiler day I spent the full day working on the Humanitarian Toolbox project @htbox) with Bill Wagner (@billwagner) and Tony Surma (@tonysurma) and 5 other developers.
The Humanitarian Toolbox is an open source non-profit organization, that creates software for disaster response teams. To kick things off, Tony gave us an overview of the projects and we pulled the code from GitHub.
Over the past two days I have had the pleasure of attending some excellent workshops at CodeMash. I do not normally do the “session hopping” thing but there were just too many workshops that I was interested in and it was really my only recourse on day 2.
Over the past two days I have had the pleasure of attending some excellent workshops at CodeMash. While I can honestly say only two of the workshops were beneficial from an immediate knowledge gain perspective, I think that I will get more long term value out of the others that I attended.
I am attending the SharePoint Fest Chicago this week, and will be sharing my thoughts on some of the sessions I attend throughout the week.
In a rather interesting take on user adoption, Sarah Haase provided two admittedly not-so-simple keys to success: manipulation and motivation.
I am attending the SharePoint Fest Chicago this week, and will be sharing my thoughts on some of the sessions I attend throughout the week.
My first session of the SharePoint Fest Chicago was Visual Tools and Innovation Games presented by Ruven Gotz and Michelle Caldwell. While I felt a bit alone based on my skillset, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am fairly certain I was the lone consultant in the session and 100% certain I was the only developer in the session, but ultimately that was my expectation going in and one of the main reasons I chose it. After all, that is the point of attending conferences isn’t it? Expanding my horizons…
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After letting it “sink in” for a week I realized that we all need to be a little more aware of the importance of security when we are developing applications. It amazes me that someone would post data source and connection information in StackOverflow but I was able to find 15 articles with that information readily available. Granted some of those are probably connections to a personal development environment but I literally spent less than 30 minutes looking and ultimately it made me more curious about what I could find if I actually spent some actual time digging.
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I arrived in Sandusky for my third trip to CodeMash at roughly 11:30 pm on January 6th only to exit my car and realize that the temperature really was -13 degrees. I really don’t want to know what the wind chill was as I imagine it was far colder than my “southern bones” can handle. My trip from Cincinnati would normally have taken around 4 hours and this one took roughly 6 due to the road conditions. After watching the end of BCS title game (great ending to the game by the way) I went up to my room only to find out that the heater was not turned on and it was probably around 35 degrees in the room, a regular heat wave comparatively speaking to the outside temperature but not exactly a comfy sleeping environment. NOTE: I do not stay at Kalahari when I attend. After a long and hot (probably too hot) shower I cracked open my laptop to finish off my work for the day to start fresh in the morning with CodeMash. I finally made it to bed around 2:30 am and got some sleep.
