Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008

The Silicon Valley Code Camp is happening this year at Foothill College on Nov 8-9. There are over 100+ scheduled sessions lined up with nearly 1000 developer attending. Although you need to register, attending the Code Camp is free. Looking at the scheduled session, it will be a very diverse conference with talks on Open Source, Java, C#, and Web Development. Speakers include Douglas Crockford of Yahoo, Paul King of Groovy in Action, Bill Venners of Artima, Arun Gupta of Sun, Karthik Gurumurthy of Wicket, David Pollak of Lift, Andres Almiray author of several Groovy Builders, and a ton of other Bay Area coders and hackers.

Some of the session talks that I am most interested in attending include the following…

  • GridGain – Java Grid Computing Made Simple, Nikita Ivanov
  • JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas Crockford
  • Introduction to Building RIA with Adobe Flex and AIR, Abdelmonaim Reman
  • Introduction to Spring Web Services, Pyounguk Cho
  • Building Rich Applications with Groovy’s SwingBuilder, Andres Almiray
  • The Feel of Scala, Bill Venners
  • Rails powered by GlassFish, Arun Gupta
  • Ruby Meta-programming, Bala Paranj
  • Building Enterprise RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture, Abdelmonaim Remani
  • Develop Rich Internet Applications using JavaFX, Sridhar Reddy
  • Flex and 3D UI, for games and more, Vic Cekvenich
  • Introduction to Grails, James Williams
  • Lift: a simply functional web framework, David Pollak

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