CodeStock News Feed

Sessions, Speakers, & Announcements!

webmaster@codestock.org (CodeStock) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:19:22 GMT

The past two weeks have been insanely busy for the CodeStock team. Between speaking with excellent sponsors, accepting a flurry of speaking submissions, & preparing for the CodeStock socials, we have to say that this is going to be an excellent year. With that being said, we have news - both good and bad (well, not too bad).

The Good News

This year, we have had the best turn out for speaker submissions since 2010! We are thrilled to see so many people wanting to support the community & willing to contribute to the conference. Here's the damage:

Over 100 different speakers submitted sessions.
Over 201 sessions submitted. If we were running a single track, that would be 8 DAYS worth of back to back sessions, 24 hours per day!
Over 33 incomplete speaker data profiles!! We will be tracking you all down soon.

In addition to the large turn out, we are probably seeing the most diversity of sessions we have seen to date. To name a few:

A myriad of html, css, & javaScript frameworks: Knockout, Ember, Angular, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, BluePrint, TypeScript, Node.js, LESS, Sass, Compass, Durandal.
All manner of database access: Mongo DB, Raven DB, Azure Tables, SQL Server, XML (yeah, I know), Entity Framework, Lucene, Elasticsearch, OData.
The languages, layers, & application frameworks that we love so much (and sometimes not so much): C#, F#, Ruby, Java, Erlang, MonoTouch, XNA, Webforms, MVC, XAML, REST, WCF.
A plethora of platforms, including mobile & desktop: Android, iOS, Windows, RaspberryPI.
Great conversations around concepts & practices: Agile, Scrum, Entrepreneur, Project Management, Marketing, Business Ownership, TDD, BDD, Spaghetti.
Finally, some topics that are a bit unique: Biometrics, Kickstarter, Blender, Authorship.

Needless to say there is a ton of knowledge to soak in! The great part is that, as an early-bird registrant, you have the ability to determine what sessions are selected and help us choose the best ways to sort & arrange the sequence of sessions. This brings us the other point...

The (somewhat) Bad News

Due to the volume of submissions & our current process of upgrading a few pieces of our site, we are going to be delaying the Early Bird registration for a couple of days. Originally, we planned to have everything in place by April 2nd, but we want to make sure that everything is in place to make the registration, voting, & and overall CodeStock experience as awesome as possible.

Looking forward to the event!

The CodeStock Team

Announcing Keynote Speaker, Julie Lerman

webmaster@codestock.org (CodeStock) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:03:01 GMT

We are happy to announce that Julie Lerman will join us as a CodeStock keynote speaker. Most of you probably already know Julie via her publications on the Entity Framework or via twitter (@julielerman). Julie has deep experience in the IT industry and she has a wonderful story to share with us. We all agree that Julie is going to be a great asset in making this one of the best CodeStock events to date.

In case you have not had the pleasure of meeting Julie, here are a few things about her:

Julie Lerman is the leading independent authority on Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework and has been using and teaching the technology since its inception in 2006. Julie is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework” book series from O'Reilly Media with recent editions on Code First (Dec 2011) and DbContext (Feb 2012) . She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger and a frequent presenter at technical conferences large and small around the world, such as TechEd and DevConnections. She also writes articles for many well-known technical publications, including the monthly Data Points column in MSDN Magazine. Julie keeps busy creating training videos for MSDN and Pluralsight.com.

Julia lives in Vermont where she has run the Vermont.NET User Group since 2002 and was a founding board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance. You can read her blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and her tweets at twitter.com/julielerman.

If you get a chance, please take a moment to thank Julie for agreeing to be a keynote!

CodeStock is just around the corner and we will have a few more exciting items to share with you along the way. Thank you for supporting this conference and the developer community.

Codestock 2013 Dates - Version 2.0.1-rc3

webmaster@codestock.org (CodeStock) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:58:29 GMT

Here at CodeStock HQ, we have been busily planning this year's conference. As such, we have some pretty exciting events scheduled and we are already seeing some great session submissions coming our way. As we begin getting nearer to the event, we want to make sure to let you know about some of the latest happenings around CodeStock.

March 25th will be the official close for our Call for Speakers.

Please be sure to complete your entries by that March 25th at 24:00:00 EST. The information you provide will be what we use for session voting as well as all digital and printed material for the conference. Due to timelines and constraints, we will be unable to accept any late submissions.

With that being said...

Have you entered you session submissions for this year's conference? If not, what are you waiting for? We would love to have you add to the growing number of excellent topics!

If you have already signed up to speak, thank you for supporting the community. Before the March 25th deadline, take a moment to proofread your entries and double-check your bio information. In the event that a submission is not complete, we will be forced to exclude it from consideration.

On April 2nd, we will be opening CodeStock's early bird registration.

By registering early, you will not only be able to enjoy the lowest ticket price for the conference, but you will also be able to vote for your favorite sessions! Your votes will be the largest factor in deciding what sessions will be presented at CodeStock.

Thank you for your continued support of CodeStock 2013. There will be more exciting updates to come!

The Call for Speakers is Open!

webmaster@codestock.org (CodeStock) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:01:43 GMT

Starting today, we are accepting session submissions for CodeStock. Have you considered sharing your awesome skills with the rest of the world? Do you have a methodology or tool that you would love to talk about? Do you have a topic for a panel discussion or podcast you would like to host? If so, we invite you to join your peers and share your knowledge by speaking at CodeStock.

Get started submitting your sessions at http://speakers.codestock.org/ .

Although the speakers page does a excellent job in answering most of the FAQ's about speaking, here area few high level points:

Speaking at CodeStock is open to people of all walks and backgrounds. If you have never submitted a talk before - do so! It is worth your time and the community will be much better for it.
CodeStock is home to a variety of sessions and formats. Even though our theme is Technology on the Go, there will be sessions ranging from soft skills to entrepreneurship to Azure deployment scenarios Likewise, we are open to many different formats, including panel discussions and live podcasts.
CodeStock sessions are selected mainly by the attendees. That's right, attendee voting is the most important factor when determining selected sessions.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

CodeStock 2013 Dates

webmaster@codestock.org (CodeStock) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:34:41 GMT

Mark your calendars! We are happy to announce that CodeStock 2013 will held on July 12th & July 13th of 2013! This year, we are planning a ton of great content and, of course, we need you to help us make it a success.

The theme for this year will be “Technology on the go”. In keeping with this theme, we hope to include some new sponsors and tracks on mobile and mobile web this year! In addition to these exciting items, you can expect two excellent keynote sessions, open spaces, and our Friday night social. More details of all of these activities to come soon!

Along with the conference dates, here are a few more dates to keep in mind:

Requests to participate as a sponsor are currently being considered and will be for the next couple of months! Please contact info@codestock.org if you or your company would be interested.

The call for speakers will open in early January and session voting will begin in early March.

As you all know, Mike Neel has done an excellent job in running this conference since its inception. This year, Mike has stepped into an advisory role for CodeStock planning and allowed a new leadership team the privilege of carrying CodeStock into the future. With the new team and additional man power, we hope to keep true to the previous CodeStock's goals and objectives while also endeavoring to make this the best year yet!

We look forward to seeing you in July!