Saturday, March 28, 2009

Programming Update

Today was New England Code Camp 11: Developer Stimulus Package. What an awesome name. Thanks to Chris Bowen for organizing it. Unfortunately for me, I could only stay for the first four sessions. Got to learn about Silverlight, F#, and .NET 4.0. As always, Richard Hale Shaw was excellent, and Andy Beaulieu was also quite good. Fun times for all.

These programming conventions always give me extra energy for working on projects. This one came at a great time, because I had stopped work on Walrus since all of my fantasy baseball teams had already drafted. I now know (thanks to RHS) how F# really fits in, and how to use it as a library extension to my C# projects. Yay!

I also need to work on smaller projects. Things I can build quickly and learn small things at once. I plan to build an ASP.NET MVC app soon, but it has to be super simple so I can get it out the door fast. Maybe I'll build a blog. Easy, but somewhat boring. I haven't thought this through yet.

Nick is also urging me on, mostly by blogging and conversations on the train. He's on Twitter now at @nswarr, so you can follow him if you want. Eric always gets mad points for energy boosts. 

Any ideas for what to put on edschwehm.com?

3 comments:

Nick Swarr said...

Hey, thank for the shout out! It's fun talking trash on the train and I'm totally jazzed about our upcoming tech talks! I added an item to the list; demystifying cloud computing. It's the latest buzzword and it's not nearly as Earth shattering as the hype machine has been building it to be. That's not to say that it isn't a really awesome way to deploy applications but, in a way, I've always felt like I was publishing code to the amorphous internet cloud.

Nick Swarr said...

Oh, and in case anyone wants to check me on it, cloud computing isn't just about deploying applications. It's a bunch of things but obviously that will have to come up in the tech talk :-P

Unknown said...

It's about living in the cloud, where everything is fluffy and nice!

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