Session List

Badge My IoT Life, Part 1

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! ...

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...

Functional F# Programming in .NET – A success story

Presented by: Riccardo Terrell

Do you want to learn F# and Functional Programming? Well, you better start coding! Learning a new programming language is not easy, on top of reading a lot you need to practice even more. This workshop is designed to teach you some of the basics of F# and Functional Programming by combining theory...

Hands On Threat Modeling Workshop

Presented by: Robert Hurlbut

Threat modeling is a way of thinking about what could go wrong and how to prevent it. Instinctively, we all think this way in regards to our own personal security and safety. When it comes to building software, some software shops either skip the important step of threat modeling in secure software...

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...

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! ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Let's play!

Presented by: Jean Lange, Remy Porter

Improv games ~ZIP!~ build skills like paying attention ~ZAP!~, switching roles ~ZOP!~, negotiating uncertainty ~...zzZIP?~, and celebrating failure ~ZOP! HURRAH!~ ...

Tech Debt Be Gone! Time to Refactor JavaScript

Presented by: Joe Morgan, Laurie Barth

It’s been a battle, but the code is finally working. It’s time to clean it up, but not so fast, something else is on fire and the code has to be pushed as it is. Whenever there is time to refactor something else comes up. Of course, this doesn’t just happen once. A quick change here. A little...

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...

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...

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...

From Particle to Alexa

Presented by: Brandon Satrom, Jeff Blankenburg

In this 4-hour workshop, you will get to work with the two teams behind Particle IoT hardware and Amazon Alexa to build and code your own IoT device, which you can then command with your own Alexa skill. ...

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...

The Demystifying Docker and Kubernetes DOJO

Presented by: Barry Tarlton, Michael Frayer

Want to be able to able to go from code to containers and then to a fully resilient, cluster managed environment like Kubernetes? Then this session is for you! This session will start with your code (or ours if you don't want to bring your own) and take you through the steps of packaging it as a...

KidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment

After a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...

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...

Creating a Cohesive Collection of Components with React

Presented by: Russell Skaggs

Component libraries enable teams to do more work quicker. It frees up our designers and developers to work on big issues, while allowing them to make updates with surgical precision. Building components within React has never been easier. During this presentation we will: create a set of React...

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.

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...

Practical Microservices: Get Hands-on with Event Sourcing and CQRS

Presented by: Ethan Garofolo

Have you attempted a microservices architecture and struggled? Have you read about event sourcing and CQRS, but are disappointed to only find high-level descriptions? Want to get hands-on and actually learn these concepts in the context of a functioning system? This workshop does just that. ...

What to expect when you’re concepting - Product Learning Lab

Presented by: Saad Kamal

You have a great idea for a digital product and have committed to making your vision a reality. What now? Product Learning Lab will walk you through the basics of how to communicate that great idea to the rest of the world - and more importantly - the rest of your eventual product team. Learn to...