CodeMash 2012 Rundown
Posted Date: 2/1/2012 4:53:56 AM by Dan Martin
CodeMash 2012 was not only my first time attending CodeMash, but also my first time attending a software development conference. I really wanted to go last year but did not order tickets quick enough. This year I made sure to not repeat the same mistake, and I still almost missed out on getting CodeMash tickets. I’ll summarize what stood out to me the most and my thoughts on the conference below, but if you want the TL;DR version, then this pic sums it up best.
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IFception
Posted Date: 1/30/2012 12:14:24 AM by Dan Martin
My team at work was working on some code katas and refactoring examples last week when came upon a particularly terrible piece of code. I won’t post the code in question, but let’s just say it consisted of nearly a dozen nested if statements. One of the devs was quick to term the awfulness as “IFception”.
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It's Always The Little Things
Posted Date: 1/21/2012 4:18:57 AM by Dan Martin
I had some time to kill this evening, so I figured I’d address some minor nagging issues with the site. One of which, was that Chrome did not seem to be auto-discovering my RSS feed correctly. I thought I had everything set up right, and it seemed to get picked up by Firefox and IE just fine, but never in Chrome. So where would one begin with solving this issue?
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2011 Retrospective And 2012 Goals
Posted Date: 1/19/2012 2:25:45 AM by Dan Martin
After a fairly active 2010, I set several important goals for myself in 2011. So how well did I do in accomplishing those goals? To be honest, I am pretty disappointed in myself but I remain hopeful and excited for 2012. Anyway, here are the results for 2011.
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Going To CodeMash
Posted Date: 10/29/2011 5:10:49 PM by Dan Martin
Finally! I’ve been wanting to go to the CodeMash conference for a couple of years and always manage to find an excuse not to. This year I finally made it a point to ensure that I’d go. I booked my hotel reservation a month in advance and I was ready to order my ticket as soon as they went on sale. Turns out that was a very wise decision, because all 1200 tickets were sold within the first 20 minutes. I ordered as soon as they went on sale and this is what I saw on twitter immediately following the completion of my order: