Perficient has been a sponsor of this event from the very start and as a result I’ve had the luck and privilege to attend each one of them. Each year the conference gets better and better. A very special thanks goes out to the dedicate team that puts this conference on each year, I know there are a TON of hours involved in organizing it and working the logistics, etc.  These folks are not paid professional organizers, but fellow techies that wanted to produce something better.   It’s been great watching how the team got together years ago, decided there were no good technical conferences in the Midwest and  instead of complaining about it, got busy…

They have since created one of the best conferences that you’ll ever attend if you are at all technically oriented. Year after year, the presentations and sessions get better, the conference grows and grows, and the attendance blooms. This year the conference sold out in 3.5 days (and that is over a weekend)!

I am hugely looking forward to CodeMash 2011 and seeing what the team was able to produce yet again this year.  If you haven’t heard of CodeMash, I’m sorry to say, you cannot attend this year but keep an eye out for 2012. If you were able to score a registration, congrats, and I’ll see you there as I extend my holiday season out just a little bit longer…

Oh and BTW,  Perficient and Microsoft are working an extra special contest this year for attendees to detail out your best Cloud implementation. You can find details at  http://www.perficient.com/codemash (or read more about it here: http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2010/11/announcing-clouddevcomp-with-over-1000-worth-of-prizes/

Consultant’s  Corner.  I wanted to start a blog related to the consulting of consultants that I tend to spend most of my time on these days as the manager of a consulting office for a national Information Technology Consulting Company.  I have tons of material and presentations and other items that I figured needs a single place to be stored in order to keep a record of everything and put some coherence behind all the material that I’ve collected/generated over almost 2 decades of consulting with clients in the IT space.

At some point I’ll likely move this to another domain, but I have this domain available and wasn’t doing anything with it, so this is the home for Consultant’s corner.