Session List

Breakfast

Building Web APIs with ASP.NET 7 (Workshop) - Part 1

Presented by: Chris Woodruff

Web APIs drive the most popular and powerful web and mobile apps—making the developer who can build a robust web API a developer that's in demand. Get started creating your own with ASP.NET Core, the open-source framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ...

Establishing Good TDD Habits

Presented by: Brendan Enrick, Michael Richardson

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn fundamental techniques to improve your code through TDD and Pair Programming. You’ll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good techniques that you’ll be ready to apply on your current and future code. ...

Security Defense and Detection - RPG TTX

Presented by: Amanda Berlin, Jeremy Mio

Security Defense and Detection TTX is a comprehensive 4 hour tabletop exercise that involves the introduction of TTXs (tabletop exercises), IR playbooks, and after-action reports. The exercises are paired with hands on attacks demo labs (labs provided) that reinforce their purpose. The training as a...

Python - From beginner to production CRUD maven

Presented by: Ilya Gotfryd

Python is a popular language at the intercept of brevity and exceptional readability. While it has broad adoption, it tends to escape certain geographical regions almost entirely. Many believe it to have insufficient performance or take an issue with its dynamic typing.  ...

Build a Serverless Github Bot in GCP

Presented by: Franklin Diaz

Did you ever wonder how the cool kids get their bots going to manage pull requests in Github? The bots that can comment on Pull Requests, label things, perform other actions that are helpful to human developers? Well so did I, so I assembled one a while back that I want to share with you.

A Kid’s World of 3D printing and CAD (Tuesday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the 3D printer lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over...

Picture This! Using Pictures to Solve Problems

Presented by: Susan King

This highly interactive session will explore and compare how words and different kind of pictures can be used to solve problems. Kid detectives will work on catching a band of international Lego thieves. They will find the thieves, weigh the evidence, and help Lego determine what kinds of...

A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling (Tuesday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This second session is a follow up where we get to make models! Again, children must have a responsible adult present. We will work with a fully featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate...

Artemis / Lazer Tag

We have Artemis and Lazer Tag going on in Salon C and F. Sign up on EventBrite for a free ticket. Reservation is required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codemash-2023-tickets-396878312717

Getting started in basic electronics, part 2 (Tuesday)

Presented by: Damon Stamper

Please note that this is designed in such a way that you can join/drop at any time and attend the guided session or use the makerspace during open lab time. The idea behind this is to have this be a standalone class, but also a fallback for "the rule of feet". ...

Automating Almost All Application Security Things with CI/CD -- Even Honeypots!

Presented by: Andy Douglas, Mick Douglas

Application Security is hard... if you do it wrong. IT Departments are doing a woefully poor job at application security based on...checks news headlines...all the data. Improving your organization’s application security posture can seem like a daunting and expensive project that must compete...

Learning Go: From Hello World to Web Service

Presented by: Eric Potter

Have you heard about the power of the Go language and wanted to try it out? Are you interested in seeing how you can use Go to build performant web services quickly? ...

Get Hands-On with Your Second Brain! (Workshop)

Presented by: Jeffrey Miller, Tyler Shingler

Stop overloading your brain with too much information and too many good intentions! Build a Second Brain to give your first brain a break. ...

Build your first Serverless Web Application

Presented by: Curtis Darst, Camille Roussel

Use the Serverless Application Model (SAM) to build a backend process for handling requests for your web application. A serverless approach will allow you to minimize undifferentiated work around managing servers, infrastructure, and the parts of the application that add less value to your...

Learn to MERN

Presented by: Joel Lord

Everyone talks about being a full-stack JavaScript developer, but what does it even mean? Can you really use JavaScript all the way through your development stack, and how to get started? All the different technologies that are needed to become a full stack developer might seem daunting at first,...

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

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will go over exciting trends and happenings in the 3D printing world. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD apps that might be more appropriate to...

Intro to Soldering (Tuesday)

Presented by: Jameson Alea

In this Maker Space session, you’ll learn how to solder electronic components by assembling a simple LED badge. We’ll go over basic soldering equipment, safety and technique. This session assumes no prior experience with electronics. Even if you’re a total beginner, don’t be intimidated:...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d. (Tuesday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

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: NEW Codemash Race League project. (open to Adults and Kidz) (Tuesday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

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...

Kidzmash Movie

Come grab some popcorn and watch a movie. Kidzmash attendees only

A Hands-on Intro to Docker Containers

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

Containers are one of the hottest technologies in our industry today. They are like virtual machines but smaller and faster. They can provide on-demand, disposable environments that start quickly and repeatably, locally or in the cloud. We can tear down the container whenever you want and recreate a...

Mastering TDD in Legacy Code

Presented by: Brendan Enrick, Michael Richardson

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to effectively use the principles and practices of increasing the reliability and maintainability of your code through testing and pair programming. You’ll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good...

IR Workshop

Presented by: Nathan Case

Today's DevOps world has several new responsibilities added to the everyday engineer's existence. For example, a developer often has to assist in incident response and threat hunts. Unfortunately, these skills are hard to learn and can come at a cost if they are done on the job while an event is...

Learn F#, at an easy tempo

Presented by: Eric Potter

Have you ever wanted to learn about a functional programming language without getting stuck in all of the jargon? Would you like to learn one that uses a framework you are familiar with and tools you probably already have installed? Come to this workshop and you will learn to use F# in practical and...

Slay the app dev Inner Loop complexity on Kubernetes

Presented by: Rags Srinivas

The seminal book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs written by Niklaus Wirth about 50 years ago is still applicable in this modern era of microservices where speed triumphs over everything else and warrants designing performant algorithms backed by low latency data access. Productivity gains...

A Kid’s World of 3D printing and CAD (Wednesday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the 3D printer lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over...

Kitchen Chemistry for Kids of All Ages

Presented by: Matt "Kelly" Williams

Most of the time when people think about chemistry, they don't think about the Kitchen. Beside the fact that cooking is chemistry, there are a lot of different experiments which are non-toxic and safe! ...

Learning to paint miniatures for tabletop gaming

Presented by: Matt Perrin

Painted miniatures are a great way to make tabletop games more exciting, add your own creative flair to role-playing games, or relax as a hobby. In this session participants will get hands-on experience learning how to paint a fantasy game miniature using an easy “Base, Shade, and Highlight”...

Getting started in basic electronics, part 1 (Wednesday)

Presented by: Damon Stamper

Please note that this is designed in such a way that you can join/drop at any time and attend the guided session or use the makerspace during open lab time. The idea behind this is to have this be a standalone class, but also a fallback for "the rule of feet". ...

Getting started in basic electronics, part 2 (Wednesday)

Presented by: Damon Stamper

Please note that this is designed in such a way that you can join/drop at any time and attend the guided session or use the makerspace during open lab time. The idea behind this is to have this be a standalone class, but also a fallback for "the rule of feet". ...

Back to the Basics: Software Done Properly

Presented by: Brian Korzynski, Hussein Farran

Ever wonder how large companies like Apple and Netflix write applications that always just seem to work? Wonder, how we too, can write applications that can easily adapt to changing business requirements, ease the development process, and support large customer bases without a large support...

Build Your First 2D Game with Godot

Presented by: Brandon Lewis

Have you ever been curious about what it takes to build your own game but didn't know where to start? Perhaps you were struck by analysis paralysis while trying to answer any of the endless questions a beginner may have (such as deciding on a game engine, coming up with a game idea, or how to find...

End-to-End, Component & API Testing with Cypress

Presented by: Jordan Powell

In a world where continuous deployment has become the norm, testing is no longer an option but a necessity. Even the smallest of changes can have major impact on our software. In this workshop I will show you how to test your applications the way your users actually use it. We will take a deep dive...

Building a Multi-Platform Application

Presented by: Bruce Abernethy, Chris Butcher

This session is designed for developers who are looking to expand their abilities into multi-platform development. You should have experience in at least one development environment (i.e., web, mobile, desktop) and an object-oriented language (e.g. Java, C#, Python, Typescript). ...

Event Storming Workshop

Presented by: Barry Stahl

Event storming is a process for modeling a business domain from the perspective of the business experts. It comes out of the Domain Driven Design world and has been used by many with great success. Event Storming can help your team: ...

Paper Puzzle Playtime: Making Hexaflexagons

Presented by: Kyle Adams

Discovered by a bored student in 1939, hexaflexagons combine paper crafts, magic, and geometry. This session is arts-and-crafts time as we'll walk through creating a hexaflexagon and how the magic works. You'll leave the session with your very own trihexaflexagon, ready to amaze your family and...

The Boop and Beep: A Tale of the Arduino

Presented by: Curtis Darst

Hey, what's an AR-DWEEN-NO? Follow the story of the Arduino as we connect some circuits and play some games. Learn how to interact with the Arduino and how the Arduino will interact with you. Take home the fun after completing this session. *Small parts are involved.

[KidzMash] Collaborate on your LEGO(R) vision

Presented by: Thomas Haver

LEGO(R) sets are amazingly fun to build, but who has attempted to build a complete set without looking at the instructions? In this session, the kidz & adults will form teams and try to build one of sixteen different Creator sets without the instructions. Only one person from each team will be able...

Lightning Talks

Welcome Reception

Automating Almost All Application Security Things with CI/CD -- Even Honeypots!

Presented by: Mick Douglas

Application Security is hard... if you do it wrong. IT Departments are doing a woefully poor job at application security based on...checks news headlines...all the data. Improving your organization’s application security posture can seem like a daunting and expensive project that must compete...

Developing and Deploying a Static Web App with Blazor and Azure Functions

Presented by: Matthias Koch

Blazor brings C# to the browser. Azure Functions lets your back-end scale. But how do you get started creating an Azure Static Web App using these two and how do you implement a rock-solid CI/CD pipeline for it? ...

Build Intelligent applications with ML.NET and Windows Machine Learning

Presented by: Ron Dagdag

Need to integrate trained machine learning models into Windows apps? In this session, we will look into how Windows Machine Learning can transform applications with the power of artificial intelligence and run it on the devices by taking full advantage of hardware acceleration. We will walk thru and...

Building With Entity Framework Scaffolding

Presented by: Sean Beougher

Wonder if there is more to Entity Framework than Code First? Wonder if it is possible to create objects from database tables? Here is your chance to learn about the other, bizarre side that people rarely talk about. Learn how to gain more power over your apps. Take your first step to the true...

Performant Teams: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

Presented by: Steve Green

Building successful teams requires the same rigor that goes into creating quality software. Maximizing team potential requires more than just good process. All high performing teams require three fundamental elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose. To put it simply, these teams deeply long to have...

Orchestrating workflows is a 'cron-ic' systems problem. Airflow is the modern solution.

Presented by: Jack Bennett

As a developer, devops specialist, or SRE, you almost certainly have recurring computational jobs running on your systems. cron is the simple, time-tested sysadmin tool for making a Unix host run a task on a regular schedule. ...

Board Games

Technically available 24/7. Play any of the games in our wonderful game library! Game list can be found here: https://www.codemash.org/boardgaming/

Maker Showcase and Open Lab (Thursday)

Presented by: Makerspace Staff

Come visit the Maker showcase (project displays) and open lab, in Ironwood. You will be able to check out different projects, hang out and meet with other Makers, and see what they are building or working on. There will also be some kits for getting started in electronics so you too can start...

Artemis / Lazer Tag

We have Artemis and Lazer Tag going on in Salon C and F. Sign up on EventBrite for a free ticket. Reservation is required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codemash-2023-tickets-396878312717

Debugging Burnout

Presented by: Samuel Shaw

Working in a product space requires knowing how to take a very complex problem and break it down into iterative chunks. Far too often, we’re so wrapped up in the problems we’re solving professionally, that we completely forget to introspectively look at ourselves and ask what problems in our...

Observability Made Easy with .NET 7 and OpenTelemetry

Presented by: Jimmy Bogard

When something goes wrong in a single application, we get a nice stack trace. In a distributed system, we get almost nothing! We add some logging, but now we have to comb through logs to understand what led to failures. ...

Easy Domain Driven Design

Presented by: Ryan Foote

Software development is hard. Even with the best intentions, and the most deliberate design processes, we often end up mired in the “big ball of mud” scenario. Where modifications are tedious, enhancements are fraught with unknown side-effects, and troubleshooting is downright nasty. By...

Intro to PostgreSQL: What to Know When You're Called In To Help!

Presented by: Ryan Booz

PostgreSQL has risen to be the dominant choice for new projects and cost-saving migrations in an increasingly cloud-first, price-conscious world. Additionally, all three major cloud providers have invested heavily in PostgreSQL and their own forks, signaling a continued shift in the DBMS market....

Learning Functional Programming Through Construction: First Principles

Presented by: Cameron Presley

In the past five years, functional programming has increased dramatically in popularity which has led to an explosion of resources for learning these concepts. But, between languages (Haskell, Elm, PureScript, F#), libraries (Ramda, fp-ts), and concepts (Monads, Monoids, Functors), it can be...

Introduction to MLOps

Presented by: Robert Herbig

You've decided Machine Learning (ML) can help your customers? Great! ML is very accessible these days. But taking those ML solutions into production in a way that is repeatable, maintainable, and scalable can be challenging. MLOps draws from DevOps and Agile practices to reduce these risks and...

Build and Use a Camera Obscura

Presented by: Erin Hanton

Have you ever wondered about the origins of photography and imaging? How early painters were able to capture their subjects accurately? Whether digital or analog, all images start with light and innovative objects like the camera obscura that predate modern imaging equipment. ...

Getting started in basic electronics, part 1 (Thursday)

Presented by: Damon Stamper

Please note that this is designed in such a way that you can join/drop at any time and attend the guided session or use the makerspace during open lab time. The idea behind this is to have this be a standalone class, but also a fallback for "the rule of feet". ...

CI/CD with Github Actions

Presented by: Chris Ayers

Learn about building and deploying applications using Github Actions. We will learn diverse ways to trigger our builds and build different of types of applications. ...

Recent Updates to the SQL Developer’s Toolbox

Presented by: Erin Stellato

There are a lot of tools available for working with SQL Server and Azure SQL, but which ones can be the most helpful to developers? Come to this session to learn more about different tools that can help you when developing against your SQL database environment. Some of these tools might end up in...

Modern Android Development

Presented by: Michael Yotive

Can you believe Android has been around since 2008? Since its release, the Android ecosystem has evolved dramatically. From new IDEs and languages to fancy threading models and opinionated architecture components, best practices for "Modern Android" are a moving target. ...

Neurodiversity, Productivity, and Communication – A Survival Guide

Presented by: Cassandra Faris

We live in a world where it’s easy to be overstimulated and distracted. The more virtual our world becomes, the harder it is to focus, communicate, and complete tasks. This is especially challenging for people with neurodiversities such as ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia, and those that support them....

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

Presented by: Ian Malpass

As DevOps practitioners, we are concerned with both the development of our systems, and their operation in production. With new features, in particular, we are often confronted with doubt and uncertainty about how they’ll behave when they actually reach a live environment. Does that query perform...

Reactivity in The Web With Svelte

Presented by: Brendan Todahl

Modern front-end frameworks claim to be reactive when state changes occur which updates the views at runtime. The technologies these frameworks depend on to do so aren't the most optimal such as using the Virtual DOM, DOM diffing, and more. Svelte is a compiler that runs at build time instead to...

Kitchen Chemistry for Kids of All Ages

Presented by: Matt "Kelly" Williams

Most of the time when people think about chemistry, they don't think about the Kitchen. Beside the fact that cooking is chemistry, there are a lot of different experiments which are non-toxic and safe! ...

Lunch

This is a Promise That You'll Understand Asynchronous Programming with JavaScript

Presented by: Brandon Bruno

JavaScript is changing faster than ever with a yearly release cadence that brings useful syntax tweaks, new APIs, and updated language functionality. Of the dozens of new features added to JavaScript over the last ten years, Promises stand out as one of the most essential yet most difficult to...

From Conception to Production -- Planning out your next big idea

Presented by: Derek Mulhausen

So you've got a great idea, but now what? You need to communicate the idea to anybody involved with the project from investors to developers and management. You also need a blueprint to know what to develop so that you are not wasting any of your own valuable time. ...

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...

Cypress vs. Playwright: The best E2E testing frameworks go head-to-head

Presented by: Kyle Whitaker

Back when writing E2E tests with a framework like Protractor was still a thing, Cypress came along and changed the game. Cypress testing UX is best-in-class with its powerful replay and debugging capabilities. Just when you thought another framework could not possibly challenge Cypress, along came...

One config to rule them all! An introduction to Azure App Configuration.

Presented by: Samuel Gomez

You have an environment working properly when suddenly you start seeing weird behavior, you troubleshoot the issue and find out that someone accidentally checked in their local settings file. If you’ve run into this scenario or you are looking for options to manage your configurations this talk is...

This Is Fine - Firefighting for the DBA

Presented by: Matt Gordon

Whether you've been a DBA for a week, a year, or a decade, you've likely had that day where it felt like you were fighting multiple fires at the same time. That often makes you feel like you have no idea what you're doing - but you do. I've been both an on-call DBA and a consultant in my career so...

From Create React App to Next.js

Presented by: Avindra Fernando

In recent years, React has become a widely adopted solution used by many development teams to build their web applications. Developers mostly use Create React App (CRA) to get started with React as it offers a modern build setup with no configuration. ...

Building a drone from scratch

Presented by: Godfrey Nolan

In this session we'll walk through all the components you need to build a drone from scratch. We'll look at the options for Frames, Motors, Controller, Telemetry Radios, ESCs, Batteries, Transmitters, as well as your Camera and Gimbal. While we're assembling the drone we'll explain each of the...

Give your APIs a REST & Make the move to GraphQL

Presented by: Dan Vega

In a world where multiple applications and devices are calling your APIs, you end up having to create custom endpoints for different views of your data. What if you could provide fewer endpoints and let the consumer decide on which data they need? ...

Shipping a Web App as a Mobile App in 2022

Presented by: Kito Mann

So you've got an amazing web app that you've written with your favorite web framework (React, Angular, Vue, or even pure Web Components). But you also need to ship it as an iOS app. And an Android app. Is there a way to deploy your web app on both platforms, have good performance, and still take...

Why We Don’t Need More Women in Tech

Presented by: Tori Brenneison

It’s a common rallying cry: “We need more women in tech!”... but is it true? Is the solution to male-dominated technology workplaces simply to shovel more women into the talent pipeline? That’s what we’ve been trying for the past decade… and it’s not working, when over a third of...

Inclusive, Accessible Tech: Bias-Free Language in Code and Configurations

Presented by: Anne Gentle

Heard of suss? You can suss out more information or you can find someone's information to be suss. "Suss" shows the flexibility of language. It’s an ongoing process to change how we use certain words. It's important to choose words carefully to convey the correct meaning and avoid harmful subtext...

Help! I Need To UnSQLize My Application

Presented by: Joel Lord

More and more people are moving from old-school relational databases to a variant of NoSQL. If starting a green-field project with a document database is easy, it can be a different story when migrating from one to the other. Simply porting SQL tables to a collection might cause you more harm than...

Product Thinking and Tinkering

Presented by: BJ Allmon

Do you aspire to be an inventor one day? Maybe you have lots of ideas and don't know what to do with them. ...

Let’s Play A Game! Computer Hacking and Capture the Flag

Presented by: Joe Kuemerle

Have you ever wanted to know how computer hackers are able to get into systems and find out things that they are not supposed to know? If you think you have what it takes to go head to head against other teams to see who can use their computer skills to attack a system then this is the session for...

An Internal conference? In the middle of a Pandemic? What were we thinking...

Presented by: M&T Tech (Sponsor)

Presented by Josh Bond Ever wanted to put on an internal conference? Wonder what it takes? Where to start? How to get support from your leadership? We (M&T Tech) did it in 2022, and will share our journey and outcomes with you.

DO Cross the Streams! - Unleash The Power of Kafka Stream Processors Without Proton Packs

Presented by: Nationwide (Sponsor)

(Presented by Josh Castle) ...

Rust: From Zero to Production

Presented by: Telos Alliance (Sponsor)

(Presented by Jeff Bencin, Dan Bays) ...

Build Enterprise-Scale Web Solutions with .NET

Presented by: Ice Tea Group, LLC (Sponsor)

(Presented by Levie Rufenacht) ...

The Awesomeness Factor: Enhancing your Development Career

Presented by: Insight (Sponsor)

(Presented by Jonathan Danylko) ...

Uncovering the Secrets of the 2x2 Rubik's Cube

Presented by: Ben Fox

The Rubik’s cube is one of the most popular puzzles in the world! But today we will be exploring one of the Rubik’s cube offshoots, the Rubik’s Pocket Cube or 2x2. Did you know that the fastest cubers in the world can consistently solve a 2x2 in under 2 seconds? In this session, you will learn...

Continuous Learning for Developers

Presented by: Brian MacDonald

The world of technology never stops moving, and developers are frequently told that they have to be constantly learning in order to keep up. Entire industries are devoted to helping developers stay on the cutting edge, and they offer a multitude of options and formats: books, video, online...

Binary Analysis for noobs - An Intro to Reverse Engineering

Presented by: Jason Slagle

Do you often find yourself wondering how security researchers discover bugs in systems? How do they earn bug bounties by examining existing software? Are you struggling in CTF challenges whenever you are fed a binary? If so this session is for you! ...

Augmenting our World

Presented by: Tommy Hartz

Building custom AR applications is easier than you think! In this session, we will look at the past, present, and future of Augmented Reality. We will compare the various frameworks and tools for creating AR apps, and then look at some cool demos. Come ready to learn how to create impressive AR...

Artificial Intelligence Programming with T-SQL

Presented by: Sam Nasr

Artificial Intelligence has been available to developers via API or libraries for integration with Code. Now SQL Server offers Artificial Intelligence via T-SQL. In this session we'll look at specifying a model for making decisions about time series data, programming the model using T-SQL, and...

A Vibrant Visit With The Valuable and Versatile Visitor Design Pattern

Presented by: Kelly Morrison

Design patterns are popular with software designers, and the famous "Gang of Four" book on Design Patterns is an industry classic. Some of the classic patterns in that book are simple to understand and use, and many have been "baked into" programming languages and frameworks. However, some of the...

Introducing Event Sourcing into the Monolith: A War Story

Presented by: Ole Michaelis

Our 13-year-old Ruby on Rails app is well maintained and stable boring. Dealing with many unstable vendors, networks, and co-workers, we’ve struggled to keep track of our processes within the application and maintain an audit trail. We’ve been applying patches to symptoms ever since. When we...

Socializing for Heuristics: How Social Media Made Me a Better Tester (and Human)

Presented by: Hilary Weaver-Robb

Social media isn’t useless. It’s not just for seeing what people are eating or watching, or networking with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances across the globe. While I have met some amazing people on Twitter and other social platforms that have changed my life, I have also gained something...

Kidzmash Movie

Come grab some popcorn and watch a movie. Kidzmash attendees only

Signals, Signals, Everywhere: Tracking Aircraft with Redis & Software-Defined Radio

Presented by: Guy Royse

Aircraft are everywhere. Knowing exactly where is paramount as it’s considered bad form for two aircraft to be in the same place at the same time. To avoid this, aircraft worldwide constantly and publicly broadcast their location, heading, and all sorts of other data using a system called ADS-B or...

GDPRs, and PCI-DSSs, and HIPAAs, oh my: Untangling Compliance So You Don’t Get Scared

Presented by: Jennie Ocken

All software will fall under some compliance standard from HIPAA for health care information to PCI for credit card information, from GDPR for privacy in some countries and states to SOX for publicly traded companies. As software developers, product managers, and quality engineers we have an...

Lessons Learnt from 10 years of Developer Advocacy

Presented by: Sam Basu

Technical developer advocacy is no longer a role that you have to explain – it is critical to the success of most software product companies. And the craft has evolved over the past few years – come learn the many nuances to be successful. Take away well-accepted tricks of the trade applicable...

The Engineer's Playbook: Starting a New Role

Presented by: Cameron Presley

Starting a new role is never easy. There are a ton of ideas, new processes, people, and new technology to pick up. In addition, one may have also changed problem domains, which means learning about the problems being solved. That's a lot to take in and is colloquially known as "drinking from the...

They promised us Jetpacks

Presented by: Godfrey Nolan

Over the past few years the number of new Android Jetpacks has exploded. For many developers who may not have been paying attention the modern Android platform has become unrecognizable. In this session we look at what it takes to add as many different Jetpacks as we can to a simple public transit...

Kidzmash Movie

Come grab some popcorn and watch a movie. Kidzmash attendees only

Electric Jam Session

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Tournament

Breakfast

Application Architecture Patterns

Presented by: Joseph Guadagno

Architecting an application can be challenging. What do you do to keep your application flexible to ever-constant requirement changes? How do you handle landscape changes (cloud, on-premises, databases)? How do you avoid over-engineering the application? How do I make sure my application plays well...

Lights! Camera! GitHub Actions!

Presented by: Mark Ramsey

GitHub Actions has grabbed the attention and mindshare of both the open source and enterprise development communities. It combines the power of GitHub source control with automation scripting capabilities to give us the ability to execute both Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tasks...

Whose Time is it Anyway? Lightning Fast Hacks That Add Real Value to Meetings No One Wants to Attend

Presented by: Scott Showalter

Too many meetings. Let's face it, we all have them. Meetings are a necessarily evil, but they don't necessarily have to be so evil. Regardless of whether we're leading a meeting, or merely attending, whether it's in person or remote, the value extracted from collaboration can be amplified by how we...

Aerospace Engineering for Computer Scientists

Presented by: Ilyana Smith

It IS rocket science! What do the International Space station and Apollo 1 have to do with basic programming principles? What considerations need to be taken into account when computers go to space? How did computers impact the moon landing? (Hint: it wasn’t special effects!) In this session,...

The Rise and Benefits of Robotic Process Automation

Presented by: Thomas Haver

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a term given to technology that allows developers to programmatically emulate the actions of a human to execute a business process. RPA often operates on the user interface (UI) layer to capture data or interact with an application or across multiple applications...

I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts Products: Using a user centered approach to bring products back to life

Presented by: Rachel Gregory

Every year companies waste billions of dollars building software that sits on the proverbial shelf collecting dust or is simply left to die due to a poor user experience and lack of adoption. According to a new study conducted by software lifecycle information firm, 1E, more than $30 billion is...

A Kid’s World of 3D printing and CAD (Friday)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the 3D printer lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over...

Marshmallow Engineering

Presented by: Becky Gandillon

Rule number one of marshmallow engineering: never confuse your snack mallows with your building mallows ...

Mastering the art of speedcubing

Presented by: Ben Fox

So you’ve learned to solve the 3x3 Rubik’s cube…GREAT! But now it's time to up your cubing skills! In this class, you will learn advanced methods for solving the 3x3 rubik’s cube, tips to improve your times, the basics of the C.F.O.P. (Cross, F2L, OLL, PLL) method, information about...

How to work with Security and have it not suck

Presented by: Jamie Dicken

Let’s face it: working with security teams can suck. Whether they’re trying to prioritize security work in the backlog, raising a show-stopping security concern hours before go-live, jamming more steps into the SDLC or tools into the pipeline, or blocking use of third-party libraries, there are...

Launch Your API Testing Out Of This Galaxy With Postman

Presented by: Rick Clymer

Looking to enhance your API test coverage with a single solution across all of your services? Maybe you want to make sure that your services are integrated properly and working with each other in your deployment pipeline. Or maybe you're looking to have your manual testers begin to write automation....

Vertical Slice Architecture, not Layers!

Presented by: Derek Comartin

Nobody wants to deal with a system that is hard to change and easy to introduce bugs because it's a spaghetti code mess of various technical concerns. ...

Market Rate -- Is it just for seafood?

Presented by: Yvette Menase

You might have have googled "market rate for x job" during your application process. You probably have received a ~1% raise with the HR justification of, "It's market rate". You most likely applied to a job that gave a range, paid you the minimum, and denied your negotiation as "It's market rate for...

Gender Diversity Is Not Enough

Presented by: Cassandra Faris

Studies consistently show that diverse teams solve problems more effectively, yet software development teams frequently lack diversity. Thankfully, the tech industry is talking more about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), understanding why these things are important, and making changes to...

npm install empathy --an emotional intelligence toolkit

Presented by: Tiffani Frost

Ready to upgrade your packages? Need some time to do some introspective thought provoking work? Then this session is for you! npm install empathy is a high level innovative way to look at yourself and how you work with people. We spend so much time on the cutting edge of technology. What about the...

Getting started in basic electronics, part 1 (Friday)

Presented by: Damon Stamper

Please note that this is designed in such a way that you can join/drop at any time and attend the guided session or use the makerspace during open lab time. The idea behind this is to have this be a standalone class, but also a fallback for "the rule of feet". ...

Lunch

UI Component Tests and QA Strategy

Presented by: Mark Noonan

Writing UI component tests that run in your browser right alongside the development environment is a powerful workflow for test-driven development on the front end. In this talk, we will discuss how Component Testing in Cypress lets developers take a component-first, test-driven approach to...

The Price of Open-Source

Presented by: Matthias Koch

Open-source is everywhere and companies save billions of dollars because of it. Making your project popular and still keeping a clear head takes a lot of effort. From my 7-year journey in the community I learned from many mistakes and lived the versatile life of a maintainer. Open-source is a great...

Event Streaming and the Kafka Conundrum

Presented by: Barry Tarlton

As data increasingly becomes the backbone of business, having a resilient distributed data store becomes a necessity. Over the past few years, Apache's Kafka has risen to the top as the most used real-time and scalable messaging system in most businesses. When our company began it's journey into...

Fighting The Saboteur in Your Relationships: Dealing with Cognitive Biases

Presented by: Arthur Doler

Modern software requires the efforts of a coordinated, dedicated team of individuals. We need to work with other people, and in order to do that, we have to maintain relationships with them. But no matter how polite, conscientious, or amiable you are, there’s still something that’s always...

Self-Driving Robotic Cars - Starting on a budget

Presented by: Don Ward

A few years ago Waymo learned that soap bubbles cause their self-driving cars to hesitate on whether to brake or not. Today the promise of self-driving cars is still only a promise. The industry continues to move forward and advances are made every day. Soap bubbles no longer cause havoc. The good...

Weathering Storms in the Cloud

Presented by: Denis Magda

Cloud availability zones and regions are not immune to outages. The zones go down regularly, and regions become unavailable during natural disasters or human-caused incidents. Thus, if an availability zone or a larger area goes down, so does your application…unless the application functions across...

Don’t let user authentication stop you from building your web app!

Presented by: Kyle Whitaker

Authentication is no trivial task; it is also an essential building block for most web applications. Building a robust user authentication flow for the first time can stop even a great developer dead in their tracks. Authentication can drown you in a sea of architectural complexity, and all you want...

Why We're Always Late

Presented by: Jeremy Jarrell

Your software project is probably late. And your last project was probably late, too. Furthermore, despite the decades of experience that we have planning and forecasting projects, this doesn’t seem to be getting any better. ...

Testing in Prod as Part of the Pyramid

Presented by: Cecelia Martinez

The paradigm of the testing pyramid has changed over time, with developers adjusting the types of testing performed during integration. Unit, end-to-end, and even component and API testing are taken into consideration when designing a testing strategy. With improvements to observability and...

Build and Ship It!

Presented by: Joseph Guadagno

If you are like me, you have many libraries, helpers, utilities that you have built over time that you use for multiple projects. You've thought about publishing them to NuGet so you can share them with other projects or your team but didn't because they contain secrets, intellectual property, or...

Why Can't the Business Get Behind Streaming?!

Presented by: Becky Gandillon

Technologists understand that Kafka is reliable and durable; fast and fault-tolerant. It handles use cases both large and small. So why isn't it being used everywhere by everyone? Because the technology itself isn't the answer. As an engineer-turned-data-guru, it took me way too long to figure that...

Balloon Animals: Blowing things Up at Codemash

Presented by: Ilyana Smith

In this fun session, you’ll learn the basics of balloon animals, twisting your way to a variety of adorable creatures! We’ll bring the balloons if you’ll bring the imagination! Kidz of all ages are welcome (younger kidz – please assist your parents)! No experience necessary! You’ll leave...

CANCELLED: COBOL: Past, Present, and Future

Presented by: Micro Focus LLC (Sponsor)

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Look Up From Your Code and Talk: Effective Communication for Developers

Presented by: United Wholesale Mortgage (Sponsor)

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Engaging Ecommerce with the Visual Web

Presented by: Cloudinary (Sponsor)

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Intro to Soldering (Friday)

Presented by: Jamey Alea

In this Maker Space session, you’ll learn how to solder electronic components by assembling a simple LED badge. We’ll go over basic soldering equipment, safety and technique. This session assumes no prior experience with electronics. Even if you’re a total beginner, don’t be intimidated:...

Improving the Design of Existing Software

Presented by: Steve Smith

Over time, software rots. If we’re not diligent, our beautiful code can degrade into a worthless mess. Keeping our code in working condition is no different than changing the oil in our car – it’s preventive maintenance. In this session, Steve will look at some common places to look for signs...

Building Beautiful CLI's is for Everyone

Presented by: Keith Kurak

Writing command-line interfaces, whether it's to string together a few oft-forgotten terminal commands or batch automate repetitive tasks, are one of those things most developers eventually do, but often only do just "good enough." Let's shift the focus from clean and beautiful application code to...

Breaking Down Monoliths using GraphQL

Presented by: David Lucas

Monoliths come in multiple shapes and sizes, but how can you leverage GraphQL to break them into components ? ...

GraphQL Distilled

Presented by: Kito Mann

REST is all about endpoints that perform specific queries or operations. This works fine, but the client is limited by which queries have been exposed. What if the backend exposed the data, but the client could decide which subset of data it needed, and how to interact with that data? That’s the...

More Than That

Presented by: Damian Synadinos

“What do you do?” ...

The Velocity Trap

Presented by: Brad Nelson

How does your team know that the things they deliver are valuable? While there are some companies that don’t measure at all, it is becoming common practice to evaluate a team based off of productivity or output. Just because your team is able to deliver a lot of work in a small amount of time it...

Delighting users with performant apps

Presented by: Mike Hartington

Ok, so you want to build an app that can be fast, performant, and keep your users coming back for more? Think you need to reach for native? Think again! The Web is an amazing platform that offers developers a lot of ways to build amazing experiences. The only problem is...it requires some tricks to...

Database DevOps: Options for database change management

Presented by: Ryan Booz

Whether you are the DBA for an Agile, Sprint-based team, or a Developer with DBA responsibilities, you may feel like the development bottleneck at every turn. Managing migrations with your ORM of choice is easy but often error-prone, especially as the project grows. Or worse yet, maybe your schema...

ARM, Bicep, knees and toes! Infrastructure as code for beginners.

Presented by: Samuel Gomez

Infrastructure as code allows you to deploy consistent and stable environments in an automated fashion eliminating the need for manual configuration. Tools like ARM, Bicep and Terraform are used to build templates that make these deployments possible, but the syntax of some of them can make it...

JAMstack: Web Apps at Ludicrous Speed

Presented by: David Neal

If you're a web developer, chances are you have heard the term "JAMstack." Curiously, JAMstack isn't a solution to prevent clogged printers, something to eat on toast, or a way to make music. Instead, it's an architecture for designing super-fast web applications that easily scale, focused on...

Paired Programming: From Pain to Profit

Presented by: Austin Kucera

Some of the best companies and developers swear by pair programming, but have you noticed how painful it can be? If you've heard the propaganda and found reality didn't live up, or if you're curious to hear what the buzz is about, come discover some hard-won truths about one of the most promising...

Level Up on Functional Programming By Rebuilding LINQ

Presented by: Cameron Presley

When taking the first steps into functional programming, one quickly runs into blog posts talking about how to simplify complex loops by using the trinity of list operations: map, filter, and reduce. But what are these methods actually doing under the hood to help simplify the code? ...