Dave Donaldson

CodeMash Recap and Slides

Sunday, January 13 2008

Once again, CodeMash rocked. I was only able to be there for Day 2, but I thoroughly enjoyed every second. I got to see a whole bunch of people I haven't seen in a while, and it seemed like every 5 feet I ran into someone else to chat with. In only its second year, CodeMash has already solidified itself as a must-attend show. There is simply no other conference that brings together such a wide variety of topics, speakers, and attendees. And having it at the Kalahari Resort doesn't hurt either because many people bring their families and turn it into a long weekend getaway.

Many thanks to the entire CodeMash crew (you know who you are). You guys pulled off a heckuva conference with ~330 attendees, and I appreciate being given the opportunity to come and speak again.

For those interested in the slides and demos for my "RESTful Web Services" talk, you can download it here. I think they'll be uploaded to the CodeMash site soon, but I figured I might as well make them available now. The demos require Access 2003 to run (not Access 2007 like I misstated in my talk), so if you've got that (and VS 2005), simply change the location of the Northwind.mdb database in web.config and you're good to go.