SD WEST 2008
I will be heading to Santa Clara next week to attend the SD WEST 2008 conference. I am really excited about this trip. Just take a look at the list of presenters, the odds are you have probably...
View ArticleMy SD West Schedule
I think one of the hardest parts about attending a conference such as this one, is trying to decide which talks to attend. There are some time slots where I was torn between two or even three talks,...
View ArticleSD WEST – Monday Morning
We are all signed up and ready to go. Mark and I went through registration this morning and are now at our first talk “To Catch a Bug You Have to Think Like a Bug”. This afternoon Mark and I will be...
View ArticleFirst Day at SD WEST 08 – Overview
It is impressive the number of people from big name companies that are not just giving talks but that make up the list of attendees. From reading attendees’ conference tags the company names I saw most...
View ArticleUniversity of Saskatchewan Programming Contest
Marcos and I attended the University of Saskatchewan Programming Contest where local students were competing for prizes and the chance to attend the Regional Programming Contest at the U of S on Oct...
View ArticlePrairie Dev Con 2010!
This last week I had the great opportunity to attend Prairie Dev Con 2010 in Regina. This is the first time a good sized software conference has been organized here in the prairies. I travelled to...
View ArticleCommon AntiPatterns
While at UberConf 2010 I had the opportunity to attend a talk on AntiPatterns put on by Mark Richards. There are many AntiPatterns that exist in the software world, but Mark decided for this talk to...
View ArticleWorking with XML in Scala: A Simple Example
While at UberConf I had the great opportunity to attend a talk titled “Scala for Java Programmers” put on by Venkat Subramaniam, the author of the book “Scala Programming” . During the talk we went...
View ArticleUberConf 2010
This week I had the great opportunity to attend UberConf 2010 in Denver Colorado. This is primarily a JVM platform focused conference, but still has a variety of topics outside of the JVM such as iPad...
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