Session Schedule

Breakfast

Build your first full-stack Blazor app

Presented by: Ed Charbeneau

The arrival of WebAssembly begins a new era for .NET web developers, allowing client-side applications written in C# to run directly in the browser. Blazor is a newly emerging client-side UI platform from the ASP.NET Core team, offering a productive and powerful way to construct large-scale...

Hacking Your Emotional API: Emotional Intelligence in Practice

Presented by: John Sawers, Aaron Aldrich

Being a good developer isn’t just about slinging code; we’re part of a community. Interacting with others in a community means feelings are involved. But feelings are messy and uncomfortable, so why can’t you just ignore them? Because emotional skills are critical for working well on a team....

Introduction to Kubernetes

Presented by: James Strong

Introduction to Kubernetes is a hands-on, interactive workshop giving attendees a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Kubernetes. As part of this workshop, you will learn how Kubernetes works, deploy microservices to that cluster & also hear about some war stories.

Putting the D&D in TDD

Presented by: George Walters II, Guy Royse

Are you tired of TDD workshops that make you do boring things like calculating bowling scores and prime factors or demonstrate how to win the game of life? If so, this is the session for you! In this TDD workshop, we will be building the domain model for EverCraft -- a new MMORPG from Blizzards of...

Design & Research Fundamentals for Developers

Presented by: Alex White

How do you know what you’re building is important to your customers? As a developer, it’s easy for you to jump right into the code when given a problem to solve, but what if you build something that nobody wants? Taking the time to design and research your product can help you better meet the...

Lunch

GIT: From beginner to Fearless

Presented by: Brian Gorman

This training is an introduction to GIT for source control. We'll take a look at getting started with GIT on our own machines, as well as working with GIT at public/private repositories on GitHub and/or BitBucket. Tools we'll use include BASH and VSCode GIT can scare people. It shouldn't. GIT is...

Xamarin Forms Workshop

Presented by: Jason Awbrey

Interested in learning more about Xamarin, but not sure where to start? This workshop will give you a guerrilla introduction to the Xamarin platform, including live coding exercises in building a cross platform app with Xamarin Forms. We'll discuss the overall Xamarin ecosystem and the sometimes...

iOS Application Security Testing

Presented by: Hans Weisheimer

This hands-on session is aimed at mobile app developers, QA testers, aspiring security testers, and other suspicious persons. Modern mobile app development abstracts away most low-level interaction with the operating system. It is common to rely on third-party modules to handle sensitive data or...

Codemash VoiceHack 2020

Presented by: Jeff Blankenburg

This is a pre-compiler for learning how to build voice applications using Alexa. We will cover things like intents, sample utterances, handlers, and voice design principles. You'll learn how to use AWS Lambda functions, talk to APIs, and even how to make some money. But this is also a kickoff to...

Kubernetes hands-on (Workshop)

Presented by: Rob Richardson

Kubernetes is how you run Docker in production. Bring your laptop with Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac edge version installed. We'll walk through getting a K8s cluster fired up on Docker-Desktop, minikube, and on Azure. You'll be hosting Docker containers in development and production in no...

Badge My IoT Life, Part 2

Presented by: Paul Pagel

What can play games on the go, show your best face to the world, establish your geek creds way better than any iPhone, and potentially do some useful work too? Why, the "official" CodeMash 2020 IoT Badge of course! This session will use the badge created in Part 1 and take a closer look at...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

From idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project

Can’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...

Maker Space Chit Chat

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Breakfast

Building an educational game with .NET Core and Unity3D (Workshop)

Presented by: Johnny Hooyberghs

If you are waiting for a deep dive into .NET Core, the Microsoft Compiler Platform and Unity3D this workshop is for you! No high-level tech demos, but a real-life application that is used in schools. Building an educational game, with robots fighting to the death, from scratch, will be a blast. This...

Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty

Presented by: Gary Short

Decision making in the face of uncertainty is one of the hardest things to do. In this pre-compiler session, we'll borrow methods from machine learning, statistics, trading and computer science to compose a methodology which will allow you to make the best decision possible given the evidence you...

Get Progressive with it

Presented by: Matthew LaForest

Responsive web design! Mobile first! Hybrid apps! We are continuously bombarded with new ideas about the best way to develop a new application. For a small team, effectively delivering across many platforms can be a problem, but delivering a hybrid app frequently falls into an uncanny valley...

Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development

Presented by: Steven Hicks

Learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) is frustrating. The first couple tests feel strange - you wonder why you're writing tests that fail on purpose. Before long, you find yourself behind schedule from spending so much time on tests. You abandon unit testing completely. You'll write them...

Kafka: Build, Deploy, and Monitor Your First Real-World Application

Presented by: Justin Pihony

Companies nowadays are finding it critical to be able to gather and analyze massive amounts of disparately-sourced data, quickly and reliably. By diving into the fundamentals of Apache Kafka, you will learn how it can be more than a superior, distributed messaging system, but also a platform to...

Making Reality Virtual: Simulating Experiences with VR Prototyping

Presented by: Scott Showalter

Take the Red Pill, and let's dive into the mind-bending Matrix that is Virtual Reality prototyping. Not just for gaming (though that's cool too), a new dimension of experience simulation is now open to designers of software as well as physical products, to observe customer interaction and gather...

Lunch

Java 9, 10 & 11 Workshop

Presented by: Christopher Judd

With the quick moving 6-month Java train releases, you like many Java developers and organizations may have remained on Java 8 waiting for the next Long-Term-Support (LTS) release. Well, Java 11 is here so it is time to begin the adoption and upgrading. Java 9 was a HUGE release with many impactful...

Server Side Swift Saves CodeMash: Breaking free of the phone

Presented by: Anne Cahalan

CodeMash is a whirlwind of great workshops, talks, and experiences. If only you could capture these insights and save them forever... Swift can help -- but we're NOT going to build an iOS app! Server Side Swift has gone from a fun idea to a robust, mature platform for moving data from the backend...

Building a DevSecOps Pipeline

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

The release date is a week away. Development is complete. The code works, and everything looks good. Marketing is ready with the media blitz. Our customers are waiting to get their hands on the new features and are sure to give us good feedback. The only step left is to get the security group to...

Hands-on Infrastructure as Code

Presented by: Andrew May

Learn the benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in this workshop where you'll provision resources in AWS using both CloudFormation and Terraform. Learn the joy of creating Infrastructure in a repeatable manner with a single command line replacing a hundred clicks in the web console.

Micro Frontends: Breaking up the Frontend Monolith

Presented by: Kito Mann

Over the past several years we have embraced microservices as a way to “break up the monolith” and reduce complexity, allowing teams to focus on specific areas of functionality, while providing more flexible scaling and better fault isolation. However, for most of us, the front-end has remained...

Analysis and Defense of Automotive Networks

Presented by: Samuel Hollifield

Note: This precompiler will require an additional ticket purchase in order to retain the Arduino hardware featured in the presentation. Modern vehicles are critically vulnerable. They rely on many electronic computers and sensors which communicate by broadcasting critical information over many...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

“How would you print that?” interactive panel

We have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...

Maker Space Chit Chat

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

CodeMash Shuttle

Coat Check

Python, the world beyond scripting

Presented by: Charles Yost

Python is a wonderful language for writing simple scripts. But have you ever wondered how to go to the next level? What does it take to create a library, a desktop application, or a web application in Python? How does documentation, testing, packaging, and deployment work? What are all these crazy...

Open Source XAML Takes You Places!

Presented by: Sam Basu

XAML started life as a simple thin UI markup layer, but has had a surprisingly eventful history over years – from phenomenal rise to teetering on life support. Today, XAML powers a lot of app platforms and seems poised for success going forward. And almost all of XAML application stacks are now...

Threat Modeling on the Family Road Trip and Other Strategies for Delivering Secure Applications

Presented by: Angela Pinney

Gene Spafford said: “The only truly secure system is one that is powered off...” Everyone wants secure applications, but creating them is hard, and we don't all have security certifications. How do you know where to start when "security" is not your full-time job? And how do you get the rest of...

What Architecture (The Building Kind) Can Teach Us About Architecture (The Software Kind)

Presented by: Wes Delp

Architecture has existed for the better part of human history. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman architect Vitruvius claimed that a good building must be durable, functional, and bring delight. Sounds familiar, right? This session will explore how architectural design concepts such as 'less is more',...

Making Faces: Image Reduction and Recognition

Presented by: Steve Crow

A 350px by 300px image contains 105,000 individual pixels. Comparing each pixel to tell whether or not two images are the same is not efficient. What if we could reduce the number of features, while still maintaining patterns and trends? What if we could perform this recognition by only comparing 25...

Quantity vs. Quality: Is less (code) really more?

Presented by: Anne Cahalan

We all strive to write clean, concise, reusable code. Everyone's had a moment of looking at a 500-line file or a 50-line method and thinking, "This is just too much code!" There can be real joy in breaking a giant mess into small, tidy bits. But when does the quest for brevity lead us into a swamp...

Maker Space Projects

A .NET Data Access Layer You're Proud of (Without Entity Framework)

Presented by: Jonathan "J." Tower

If you're a .NET developer, it almost goes without saying that you use Entity Framework as part of the data access code on your software projects. Sometimes, EF is just right for the job, but other times you want something more simple, with better control of the generated SQL queries, and more...

Intro to Machine Learning on the cheap and without a PhD in math: Overview

Presented by: Jim Wilson

Machine learning has traditionally required a command of advanced mathematics, years of university training, and expensive hardware to implement. Now with better open source tools and online resources it’s easier than ever to create your own robust neural networks. Be it image recognition,...

Angular and The Case for RxJS

Presented by: Sandi Barr

When choosing Angular to build a front end app, it can seem like RxJS is just one more thing to learn, and there’s no easy transition coming from another framework. But RxJS is efficient and expressive! We declare relationships between entities, describing the what not the how. The basic sequence...

Going crazy with CQRS

Presented by: Seth Kraut

CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation, which doesn’t clarify that much. CQRS is a high performance, event oriented flavor of Domain Driven Design. CQRS challenges our normal conception of design. By separating read and write logic, this architecture unlocks unique possibilities....

Usability Starts With Accessibility

Presented by: Patrick McSweeny

For many web developers, accessibility is an afterthought, if they even think about it at all. What they fail to realize is that planning for accessibility from the beginning can actually enhance the design process rather than hindering it, with the end result being more usable by everyone. This...

Beware of dark clouds on the horizon

Presented by: Andrew May

There are many benefits to be gained in moving your infrastructure to the cloud, but many more ways in which it can go horribly wrong. Will yours be the next company to expose confidential information in a public S3 bucket? Will your cloud account become unmanageable and expensive because all the...

Taking a byte of Java Bytecode

Presented by: Magnus Stahre

Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, JRuby, Jython, Clojure. What do all these languages have in common? They are all powered by Java Bytecode. With the current ecosystem of languages running on the JVM, it is becoming important to learn more about the least common denominator. This talk gives an...

KM: Sponsor Scavenger Hunt

Pick up a Scavenger Hunt Sheet In Hangoutz / Crown Palm and walk through the sponsor booths to find the answers. Remember this is not a race! Once completed return to check your answers. All of the answers are names of Sponsors. All of the Answer Sponsors who participated volunteered to be a part of...

Cosmic Full-Stack a Blazor, ML.NET, and CosmosDB Mashup

Presented by: Ed Charbeneau

Are you ready to count down to liftoff? In this session, we test the limits of the .NET stack in an incredible mission to build BlazePort, a futuristic ride share app for space travel. We'll use a mashup of the latest in .NET technologies: leveraging CosmosDB for data persistence, model travel...

Building a Custom CSS Framework Was Easier Than I Thought

Presented by: Nate Taylor

If you're like me, you've used several different front end frameworks such as Bootstrap, SemanticUI and others. You've enjoyed that they give you consistent components and layout. But perhaps you've been frustrated by those same tools. It could be that every site you have created with them looks...

Practical Cryptography for Developers

Presented by: Anthony Eden

Understanding the building blocks for cryptography is important for every software developer, especially as the quantity and value of data stored and sent over networks continues to grow. In this talk I will introduce you to the fundamentals of cryptography, demonstrating concepts such as symmetric...

Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi

Presented by: Sarah Withee

You've heard lots of hype about the Raspberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer available for under $40. This (updated) talk will introduce some of the Pi's features, explore some sample projects you can create, and show you how to write code to control hardware through it's IO pins. After this...

What can Structured Logging do for you?

Presented by: Charles Yost

Structured logging is a way to bring order and value to your logging. Gone are the days where print debugging was the only option. Now as logs become more complex, developers struggle to pack more information into a single line. The modern solution has emerged: Structured Logging. But this is not...

Make More 💰 Money with Less 🛠 Effort: 🧪 Experimentation Before Implementation

Presented by: Scott Showalter

Developing apps is time consuming, with little guarantee of success. The Web, App Store, Google Play and beyond are littered with apps making low or no revenue because they don't solve problems people actually care about. Before you build your “killer” ap, how can you truly know beyond the...

An Introduction to WebAssembly

Presented by: Guy Royse

Want to write a web application? Better get familiar with JavaScript JavaScript has long been the king of front-end. While there have been various attempts to dethrone it, they have typically involved treating JavaScript as an assembly-language analog that you transpile your code to. This has lead...

Conducting Humane Code Reviews

Presented by: Adrienne Tacke

Code reviews are a must in a proper development workflow, but what happens when performing or receiving one becomes as fun as getting a root canal? Instead of contributing meaningful suggestions, developers often use these reviews as an opportunity to rehash old arguments or show their...

Hobby Projects Are Awesome!

Presented by: Joel Byler

There you are, enjoying a hobby that you love. One that gets you away from your screens and keyboard. Then out of nowhere an idea comes to mind, maybe its spurred by a problem that you encountered or a way that you could improve on a technique, you pull from your experiences and decide to start a...

Let's talk about documentation (but more fun than that sounds)

Presented by: Mike Hand

Street signs. Clothing tags. LEGO instructions. Furniture assembly... "instructions." Every field requires documentation, but some are far better at it than others. We'll take a tour through the highlights and lowlights, hits and misses -- and then see what we can apply back to the field of software...

Automating Your Automation: The Care and Feeding of Jenkins

Presented by: Jeff McKenzie

If you're like 70% of continuous integration and delivery users out there, you're using Jenkins, the powerful and popular automation server. But how do you know you're doing it right? Are you getting the most out of the strategies you've chosen? In this session you'll learn how best to manage your...

Why You Fail to Make Good Predictions and What You Can Do About it.

Presented by: Sho Fola

What sets good predictors apart from others? Is good judgment innate or something you can nurture? As a knowledge worker, your ability to make good decisions will set you apart from your peers. Whether you’re planning out a work project or playing fantasy football good predictions are essential...

Modular Monolith: the Best of Both Worlds

Presented by: Seth Kraut

First, everyone wrote monoliths, but monoliths invariably become a big ball of mud. Now, microservices are all the rage, but they come with significant complexity. Modular monoliths combine the simple development and deployment of monoliths with much of the decoupling of microservices. This session...

API Gateways and Microservices: 2 peas in a pod

Presented by: Santosh Hari

Chances are you’ve already gone through the tedious process of decomposing your monolith into microservices, or at the very least, want to use microservices in the near future. Nowadays, microservices connect to various APIs. These APIs could differ in protocols (REST/SOAP), where they’re hosted...

Hold Up, Wait a Minute, Let Me Put Some Async In It

Presented by: Matthew Jones

The introduction of async/await to C# has irrevocably changed how .NET developers created their applications. But what about older applications? How can they get the async goodness? In this code-heavy session, we'll take a "older" .NET web app which has no asynchronous code and slowly refactor it...

Postman Delivers! A Deep Dive into API Testing.

Presented by: Bob Crowley

Whether you are a tester or a developer of HTTP API’s, chances are you are already using Postman to some degree. Chances are also that you are missing out on some of the advanced goodness. Using only features of the free version, this session introduces you to effective use of these features to...

How to Get Started with Swift in 2020

Presented by: Leo Dion

Swift is now a half decade old since its introduction at WWDC 2014. With Swift 5 and ABI stability, Swift has matured into a language ready for new adopters. In this talk, Leo gives an introduction to Swift development as well as Swift’s journey from the iPhone to the Watch to servers. Leo also...

Unclogging Your Code: Linting 101

Presented by: Hannah Stannard

Consider your code base to be the dryer and the lint to be the stuff you really shouldn't be doing. Without a linter, all that fuzz is going to be trapped in your code! If you don't take care of this lint, your dryer will catch fire, much like your code base (also known as a dumpster fire). Join me...

Hacking Radiowaves for fun (but not profit)

Presented by: Craig Hills

As a child, did you ever play with walkie talkies? Do you remember how fun it was to talk with friends and family from the other end of the house, or across the neighborhood? Capture that feeling again, except this time learn some science behind it and how to use the same technology to contact...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Own Your Career (an owner’s guide for techies)

Presented by: Nexient (Sponsor)

(Presented by Dan Broekhuizen) So it’s 2020 and you’re working in the #1 ranked job in the country, software development. Sweet, right? Truth is, having a great job is not the same thing as having a great career. How do you climb into the driver’s seat? Dan Broekhuizen — organizational...

How Couchbase added ACID transactions to NoSQL

Presented by: Couchbase (Sponsor)

(Presented by Justin Simpson) Couchbase has always supported single-document ACID transactions. Why are multi-document transactions important? This is a question to which we already know the answer. The real question is how Couchbase was able to make multi-document transactions both scalable and...

Update Strategies for IoT

Presented by: JFrog (Sponsor)

(Presented by Kat Cosgrove) Devices on the edge are hard to update. The process is often clunky, slow, and inconvenient. So what’s making them harder to deal with than other machines, and how do we design a system that mitigates the problem when we’re dealing with such a wide range of hardware...

TMW Systems Sponsor Session

Presented by: TMW Systems (Sponsor)

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So, You Think Consulting Might Be For You?

Presented by: Leading EDJE (Sponsor)

(Presented by Larry Rickard, Chad Young, TBA) Being an IT consultant either independently or with a reputable firm can be very rewarding. It offers exposure to diverse and often leading-edge technology, the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients, really smart people and a career path...

So You Know How To Code? A Gameshow For Geeks...

Presented by: HMB (Sponsor)

(Presented by Presented by HMB Consultants) Now in its fifth year at CodeMash, come to play, come for the prizes! Join the HMB team in a fast-paced pub-style team trivia that will test your programming know-how or at least provide you with bizarre and hilarious fun facts. Prizes are up for grabs and...

Automate those APIs: Integrate Services Faster with DreamFactory

Presented by: Dream Factory (Sponsor)

(Presented by Jason Gilmore, CTO, DreamFactory) DreamFactory is an iPaaS that can dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort required to build and integrate APIs for a wide variety of data sources, including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Salesforce, AWS S3, and IoT devices. In this...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

JavaScript the Grumpy Parts

Presented by: Rob Richardson

We love JavaScript, but we must admit: it's weird. Why does `this` behave as it does? How does variable scope work? Why do we have such comical behavior when comparing mixed types? Let's pull back the covers of these scenarios, and learn how it truely works. You may find a new reason to fall in...

Digging In: Getting Familiar With The Code To Be A Better Tester

Presented by: Hilary Weaver-Robb

Maybe you’ve been testing the same application for a while, and your rate of finding new bugs has slowed. Or you’re trying to find more ways to figure out what your devs are doing day to day. You have the tools at your disposal, you just need to dig in! In this talk, Hilary Weaver-Robb shares...

A Series of Unfortunate Events - What Happens When Your App is Hacked.

Presented by: Joe Kuemerle

Many of us know about the various security checklists and how we should write more secure code. In this session we will move beyond top 10 lists and dive into the world of how attackers compromise systems and how they use those compromises to exploit both individuals and companies. You will see...

Coaching & Communicating with Diverse Teams

Presented by: Kiera Prioleau

Don’t worry; this isn’t the standard lecture on what diversity means and why it matters. Research shows that diverse teams are more innovative, productive, and just darn interesting. Diversity encompasses more than gender and race, which creates challenges for development team members and...

Microservice Patterns - Implemented by Eclipse MicroProfile

Presented by: Ivar Grimstad

Architectures based on microservices introduce new challenges for architects and developers. New patterns emerge and existing are updated to be aligned to this relatively new architectural style. This session presents a group of patterns commonly used in microservice-based architectures. Each...

Fast, Reliable, Powerful IoT Projects Built on Elixir With Nerves

Presented by: Joel Byler

Elixir was built to deliver low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, this is great for large enterprise applications but can also be leveraged to build impressive IoT applications on small single board linux machines like (but not limited to) a Raspberry Pi. Nerves was built to give...

TerseScript: JavaScript with 6 characters or less

Presented by: Mike Hand

Let's explore the unique properties of JavaScript and learn how to write ANYTHING using only brackets, parentheses, plus, and bang. When you go back to using your full keyboard, you'll do it with a better understanding of JavaScript and some of it's, um, "features." Some of these hacks should NOT be...

From idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project.

Can’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...

Building Scalable, Cloud-Ready Aplications with RESTier

Presented by: Chris Woodruff

In this advanced session, RESTier project leader Chris Woodruff will show you how to use RESTier to build high-quality cloud-ready applications. We'll use different code generation techniques to build out the infrastructure to maximize code reuse across tiers. We'll spin up Angular and Xamarin...

DevOps as a Force Multiplier for Agile

Presented by: Nate Berent-Spillson

So your development team uses Agile, but you keep running into process constraints because the rest of the organization is wedded to the status quo? In retros, you’re constantly coming up against inefficient, manual operations? Every step of building a software product eats away at your...

App Deco - Applied Design Thinking for Secure Development

Presented by: Wolfgang Goerlich

Usability versus security is stupid. It forces us to choose one or the other. It excuses security breaches under the guise of usability. It automatically pits us against them, builders against breakers, developers against defenders. A better approach is to view security like usability: they happen...

Everything I Needed to Know About Debugging I Learned in Elementary Physics

Presented by: Nate Taylor

Has there ever been a time where you got a bug report and you didn’t even know where to start? Have you ever felt overwhelmed with how code is behaving? You’re expecting one thing and it does the exact opposite? Situations like these can be some of the more frustrating aspects of software...

Deep Learning on the Edge

Presented by: Dan Kacenjar

Machine learning on microcontrollers? You bet! With the introduction of TensorFlow Lite, machine learning inferencing has moved to the edge... as in edge computing! Cloud-based servers or internet connections are no longer required. Machine learning can occur on the microcontroller, directly on the...

Blockchain from the Firehose

Presented by: Jacob Coulter

Take an in-depth look at Bitcoin, the blockchain that started it all. This session will cover all the pieces required to build a trustless distributed ledger. Learn from the most fundamental building blocks like hashing algorithms, transactions, and blocks, to the more advanced concepts such as...

Testing your UI Components

Presented by: Avindra Fernando

When our clients give us kudos for releasing high quality applications, it makes us happy. To achieve great levels of quality, we need to thoroughly test our applications. But we know that some forms of testing can be expensive and tedious at times. Unit and integration tests help overcome some of...

“How would you print that?” interactive panel

We have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...

Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament

A tournament... where folks play Super Smash Bros

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Electric Jam Session

Acoustic Jam Session

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Waterpark Party

If you still have energy, come on down to the Waterpark Party! Swimming is optional. Having fun is mandatory. Sherwin-Williams is hosting a Waterpark Cabana, located near the wave pool! Late night snacks and drinks will be available while they last. Come by and grab a slice or two and meet some new...

CodeMash Shuttle

Breakfast

Solving the Boolean Identity Crisis

Presented by: Jeremy Fairbank

While powerful in its simplicity and important to computation, the boolean can be limiting in applications. In this talk, briefly explore the history of boolean logic in computation and look at how booleans can become misused in programming languages. Explore examples where booleans obscure the...

Event processing without breaking production

Presented by: Nathan Zender

Transactional systems are built with the primary focus of processing many concurrent events, only keeping the current state of data. What if I told you there was a way to capture all the events that led to that current state? Capturing all events would allow for deeper analytics/machine learning,...

StencilJS and Universal Components

Presented by: Mike Hartington

Have you ever found an awesome component online, but couldn’t use it because it’s written for a different framework? For too long now, frameworks have gotten in the way of developers sharing code that they’ve written. With different APIs to work with, developers would have to rewrite a...

Speed, security and simplicity: Creating Container Images with Cloud Native Buildpacks

Presented by: Daniel Mikusa

Buildpacks are a pluggable, modular, language-agnostic tool that takes application source code and in turn give you an OCI (Open Container Initiative) image which you can run using Docker, Kubernetes or your OCI Runtime of choice. Developers: You no longer need to worry about tedious tasks like...

Azure Kinect DK: Artificial Intelligence + Computer Vision = Your Next Generation Development Today!

Presented by: Lance Larsen

Azure Kinect DK is most advanced Computer Vision device available for developers today! Combining advanced depth sensor, spatial microphone array, video cameras with sophisticated computer vision and speech AI models, the Kinect is gives us an unparalleled tool for building cutting edge computer...

Well.. that's ONNX-pected

Presented by: Ron Dagdag

The world of machine learning frameworks is complex. What if we can use the lightest framework for inferencing on edge devices? That’s the idea behind ONNX format. Attend this session and find out how to train models using the framework of your choice, save or convert models into ONNX, and deploy...

Burn It Down and Start Again: Principles of Modern JavaScript

Presented by: Joe Morgan

Heard about the latest JavaScript syntax? Seems like a day doesn’t pass without a language update. And with all the focus on syntax changes, it’s easy to miss the subtle principles driving JavaScript. Modern JavaScript doesn’t just have new tools, it’s composed differently. Don’t use a...

Unit Testing Strategies & Patterns in C#

Presented by: Bill Dinger

Learn common patterns and strategies to effectively unit test your code in C#. We’ll go over design principles and ways to effectively ensure your code can be easily tested as well as how to use common testing tools such as Moq, Autofixture, & MsTest to help remove some of the drudgery of testing....

Beyond Alt-Text: Trends in Online Accessibility

Presented by: Ian Forrest

If you're like the 2016 version of me, then you think you have a decent handle on web accessibility. You put alt attributes on all your images (though you don't give much thought to the actual text) and you make sure your sites can be used with a keyboard (except for overlays sometimes). Then the...

API Design for ETL - Lessons from Nearly 100 Data Integrations in the Wild

Presented by: Dan Mosora

In the API Economy, users increasingly want to analyze and connect more of their business data, from small startup shops to multinational corporations. Thinking about making data available through an API? There are innumerable ways to slice the problem. How do you implement pagination? What data...

Building a super performant GossipGirl.com in Gatsby in under 50 Minutes

Presented by: Jennifer Wadella

Hey, Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here bringing you the scoop on rapidly building static websites in React. I don’t know about you, but my site is in a major need of an overhaul, so we’re going to rebuild it in under 50 minutes using GatsbyJS. We’ll make SEO look hot and blow some minds with...

Serialization for the new micro service landscape

Presented by: Leonardo de Moura Rocha Lima

Serialization is often overlooked when developing backend systems, and this wasn’t (and still isn’t) a problem inside a monolith. But with the developing scene moving towards micro services, serialization becomes really important - how to serialize your data? What aspects do you need to...

Environment Configuration for JavaScript Apps

Presented by: David Truxall

For traditional server-side web apps, environment-specific configuration is handled in a variety of ways, including environment variables, configuration files or password stores. But a front-end web app running in a framework like React or Vue can’t really use these same techniques since they...

An Introduction to Quantum Programming

Presented by: Matt Norby

Quantum computers can solve some classes of problems much faster than conventional computers. But the terminology can be confusing. What are qubits, superposition, and entanglement? And how can you harness them to write programs? In this session, you will learn the language and concepts of...

Hiring and Inspiring an Exceptional Team

Presented by: Seth Petry-Johnson

Management gets a bad rap in technical circles, and for good reason: many managers are terrible, and it shows! Rising above the pointy-haired-boss stereotypes is easier than you might think. By grounding your leadership style in management science, and adding a touch of emotional intelligence, you...

Explain it to me like I'm 5: Oauth2 & OpenID

Presented by: Daniel Mikusa

Oauth2 and OpenID are quickly becoming mainstays for application developers. Companies want integrated authentication to reduce security footprints and users expect the convenience of single sign-on. As an application developer, it's up to you to facilitate this in your applications. In this talk,...

Assembly Language: The (Sega) Genesis of Programming

Presented by: Joe Sewell

Have you ever wondered how many popular video games of the 70s, 80s, and 90s managed to look, sound, and play so well, despite running on very limited hardware? One reason is that many of these games were written in assembly languages. Unlike compiled or interpreted languages, in assembly the...

A Lifecycle Of Code Under Test

Presented by: Bob Fornal

When thinking about tests against code, have you "done enough?" How do you know that the code is covered appropriately, that odd bugs aren't going to crop up? Did you cover all the use cases and what if someone changes the code down-the-road? This session is about the unit and integration tests...

Azure Spatial Anchors: Building a Shared Mixed Reality across Devices (Hololens, iOS & Android)

Presented by: Lance Larsen

Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Markets are projected to exceed $35 Billion By 2025. One of the missing puzzle pieces in this emerging market was how to simultaneously engage multiple users across varied devices in a shared mixed reality. Azure Spatial Anchors IS that missing piece! Azure...

Finding Patterns in the Clouds

Presented by: Steve Smith

Cloud computing is quickly becoming the new normal for enterprise software developers. Whether it's more traditional Infrastructure-as-a-Service, container-based deployments, or fully serverless deployments, moving to the cloud offers something for almost every organization. But with it come new...

Quantum Computing deep dive

Presented by: Johnny Hooyberghs

You've probably heard of Quantum Computing, but it still remains a mistery? This deep dive session explains important concepts like qbits, superposition and entanglement. Theoretical knowledge about quantum physics, quantum gates and quantum algorithms will be associated with practical examples...

Practical Functional Programming

Presented by: Jeremy Fairbank

Functional programming is more than just math and monads. Functional programming empowers developers to solve real problems with safe, predictable, and maintainable code. In this talk, discover the basics of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in a practical manner. Learn how...

DDoS Attacks: Threat Landscape & Defensive Countermeasures

Presented by: Chris Holland

October 2016’s attack on Dyn's DNS infrastructure was a gloomy wake-up call to the online community at-large, depriving us access to some of the online destinations and applications we use every day, thereby confronting us with the stark reality of an old and ever-growing threat with which the...

Not Just Fun and Games: Creating a Chess AI That Can Beat You

Presented by: David Hauck

AI is in the news seemingly every week. Whether it is people like Elon Musk or Steven Hawking warning the public about them or a new program that can beat humans at yet another task, it is definitely a hot topic. This talk will go through how an AI program that can play chess is actually made. Using...

User Experience Pitfalls

Presented by: Ash Banaszek

User Experience has become a buzzword in the tech industry. Project managers and business partners are clamoring to improve the experience. You understand UX is a business necessity, but you aren't quite sure what it means to you or where to begin. This session discusses some common pitfalls of user...

Supporting the Scala Ecosystem: Stories from the Line

Presented by: Justin Pihony

At Lightbend we have handled over 10,000 customer support cases ranging from simple Scala compilation issues to complex Akka performance puzzles. Supporting Scala and its largest libraries has resulted in some really interesting issues, such as: * a seemingly valid cast leading to a...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Tribal Knowledge in Agile Teams

Presented by: Manifest Solutions (Sponsor)

(Presented by Jeffrey Miller) Let's face it. We don't communicate well, and we document even less. Is it possible to wield information well in an Agile software team? Yes, it is! With consideration, change, and commitment to doing your work differently, it is possible to have relevant and vibrant...

What's going on in there? Know what's happening in your software with Application Insights.

Presented by: Aptera (Sponsor)

(Presented by Eric Potter) Monitoring production software can be a challenge, especially if it is hosted in the cloud. Application Insights can tell you what your software is doing and how your users are using it. You can use it to identify performance bottlenecks. You can detect errors before users...

Supersonic, Subatomic Java

Presented by: Red Hat, Inc. (Sponsor)

(Presented by Scott Seighman) Supersonic, Subatomic Java In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can optimize your enterprise Java apps, your APIs, your microservices, and your serverless functions for a Kubernetes/OpenShift environment using Quarkus. Quarkus is a Kubernetes Native Java stack...

The Intersection of Quality and Speed: Scaling a Team to Optimally Deliver Quality Software

Presented by: Root Insurance Company (Sponsor)

(Presented by Tim LeMaster, Keith Wedinger, Tommy Graves) A panel discussion of Root Engineers that presents a conversation about building a team to optimally deliver software in a high quality and efficient manner and the challenges we've faced doing that at Root Insurance. From onboarding, to the...

Rapid Mobile App Development with Xamarin.Forms + Prism MVVM Framework

Presented by: Robert Half Technology (Sponsor)

(Presented by Erik Hornyak) Learn how to leverage the Prism MVVM Framework on top of Xamarin. Forms to accelerate cross-platform mobile development. Prism provides an implementation of a collection of design patterns that are helpful in writing well-structured and maintainable XAML applications,...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Programmer burnout: how to recognize and avoid it

Presented by: Santosh Hari

Burnout among software professionals is far more widespread than we would like to admit. It sneaks up on us. At first we dread going in to work each day. We can barely focus enough to get through the day and struggle with otherwise simple-for-us tasks. It starts there and gets much worse. So what...

Mock It 'til You Make It

Presented by: Gabriela Dombrowski

Let's automate the tedious task of building mocked query resolvers so that you never have to manually set up mocks for loading, error, no data, or default value states ever again! We'll learn how to use GraphQL and Apollo in a React application to build providers that will dynamically auto mock all...

One Codebase, Many Screens - Flutter in a Nutshell

Presented by: Don Ward

The Story - Flutter is Google’s cross-platform development framework for quickly crafting high-quality native apps on Web, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS in record time. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source. Notable...

Git Back to Basics

Presented by: Angel Thomas

Have you written code that worked, then broke it, only to not remember what the working code was? Git, a version control application could be the solution you are looking for. Git can help you to track changes in your projects, go back to when your code is working, or even find out where it broke....

The Dungeon Master's Guide to DevOps

Presented by: Bill Dinger

Every good Dungeon Master needs a guide to help their party adventure through the world of DevOps. From the tools necessary to common monsters found along the way. Help your party succeed at a critical part of delivering quality software. We'll go over the full CI/CD cycle: builds, commit hooks,...

Walking A Mile In Your Users' Shoes

Presented by: Jameson Hampton

Developing apps for users in different demographics is inherently differently than developing apps just for ourselves and for other programmers. Understanding the needs of our users and learning to foster empathy for them is just as much of a skill as learning Rails or ActiveRecord — and it’s a...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Straying From the Happy Path: Taking Control of Errors in Swift

Presented by: Jeff Kelley

Have you ever seen a code comment saying “this should never happen”? Have you ever wondered what would happen if it did? Swift has a diverse set of error-handling capabilities, from using throw to send errors up the stack to using a Result to handle errors in asynchronous methods. In this talk,...

Watch How The Giants Fall: Learning from Bug Bounty Results

Presented by: John Melton

Security is hard. We all miss things. Attackers find things. "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." -Samuel Levenson This talk is a fun, fast-moving survey of some of the best recent bug bounty finds against some of the...

The Case of the Tenacious Tester: How Using Your Words Improves QA Work

Presented by: Katrina Ohlemacher

"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details." So says Sherlock Holmes in “A Case of Identity.” The Great Detective has a lot to say that applies to software testing: pay attention to detail, never make assumptions, use your imagination. We wouldn’t have...

Raiders of the Lost Query: Learning Best Practices for Exploratory Data Analysis in R Programming

Presented by: Pierre DeBois

Indiana Jones had his hat, his whip, and his wits to save the day. But developers and managers need a lot more to program data models. With so many dataset tools for data science available, managers and developers can create statistical programming models, but are overwhelmed as to how to best...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)