CodeMash Abstract Approvals Round II Complete
Jason Gilmore
Apparently you can have both quantity and quality, as our pile of abstracts
is proving. With that, I write this wiping the sweat off the CodeMash
speaker committee's collective brow, having accepted the next 11 amazing
sessions. All I need to do now is figure out how I'm going to attend all of
them!!!
Look for Round III next week!
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Leah Culver: "Getting Started with Django"
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Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a
way of sending messages, links, files and events to each other. Leah is the
lead developer for the site, which has become one of the largest sites using
the Django framework. Leah loves the challenge of developing a web
application from scratch and writes about her experiences as a software
developer at leahculver.com.
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Kevin Dangoor: "Overview of the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit"
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Kevin is the product manager at SitePen and the founder of the TurboGears
open source web application framework. He has held positions in software
development, management and sales engineering. He has previously spoken at
CodeMash, PyCon, EuroPython and GLSEC and is the co-author of the book
"Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears".
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Catherine Devlin: "Crash, Smash, Kaboom Course in Python"
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After a wasted youth studying chemical engineering, Catherine accidentally
became a database administrator in 1999 and began tying web applications to
her databases almost immediately. She works for IntelliTech Systems at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, programming and maintaining small-scale,
database-centered web applications.
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Keith Elder: "Introduction to WFF" and "Building Custom Workflow Activities"
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Keith Elder is a Team Leader / Sr. Software Engineer for Quicken Loans, the
nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, MI. At Quicken
Loans he is the team leader, lead developer and architect for a custom built
in-house Smart Client CRM (client relationship management) application. As a
Microsoft MVP he speaks throughout the South and Midwestern parts of the
United States at various Code Camps, .Net User Groups, technical conferences
and schools.
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Joe O'Brien: "Ruby - Testing Mandatory"
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Before helping found EdgeCase, LLC, Joe O'Brien was a developer with
ThoughtWorks and spent much of his time working with large J2EE and .NET
systems for Fortune 500 companies. He has spent his career as a developer,
project manager, and everything in between. Joe is a passionate member of
the open source community. He co-founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and
helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group. His passions are Agile
Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500
the elegance and power of this incredible language.
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Jay Pipes: "Performance Coding Techniques for MySQL"
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Jay is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Author of
Pro MySQL, Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly
assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective
use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users
Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON and Ohio LinuxFest,
among others. In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two
needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the
ramifications of __clone().
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Brian Sam-Bodden: "Rails: A Peek Under the Covers" and "Bitter Java? Sweeten
with JRuby!"
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Brian Sam-Bodden is the author of two Java titles; a frequent speaker at
national and international conferences, a professional trainer and a
full-time member of the NoFluffJustStuff symposiums. Brian is passionate
about clean, concise and understandable software and enjoys hacking away
with Java and Ruby.
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Chris Judd: "Agile Development with Groovy and Grails"
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Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions,
LLC. (www.juddsolutions.com), international speaker, open source evangelist,
Central Ohio Java Users Group (www.cojug.org) coordinator and co-author of
"Enterprise Java Development on a Budget" and "Pro Eclipse JST". He has
spent ten years developing software in the insurance, retail, government,
manufacturing, service, and transportation industries. His current focus is
consulting, mentoring and training with Java, J2EE, J2ME, web services and
related technologies.
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James Ward: "RIAs - Beyond the Buzz"
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James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP
representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing
mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries,
elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have
taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures,
including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and
JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning
in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends
for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and
customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.