• event January 10 - 13
  • room Kalahari Resort - Sandusky, OH

CodeMash 2017

Join us at CodeMash 2017! CodeMash is held at the wonderful Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio in the middle of Winter on January 10-13, 2017. Stop by our booth to chat and win cool prizes as well as participate in our fun match-up game, Mash Madness!

We have 4 consultants that will be speaking at CodeMash and KidzMash this year.

Presentations/Sessions

Christopher Judd – Hacking & Hardening Java Web Applications Workshop
It seems like everyday there is a new headline about a security breach in a major company’s web application. These breaches cause companies to lose their credibility, cost them large sums of money, and those accountable undoubtedly lose their jobs. Security requires you to be proactive. Keep your employer out of the headlines by learning some key security best practices. This hands-on workshop is designed to teach you how to identify and fix vulnerabilities in Java web applications. Using an existing web application, you will learn ways to scan and test for common vulnerabilities such as hijacking, injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site forgery and more. You will learn best practices around logging, error handling, intrusion detection, authentication and authorization. You will also learn how to improve security in your applications using existing libraries, frameworks and techniques to patch and prevent vulnerabilities.

Christopher Judd – Building Serverless Applications in AWS Workshop
Tired of trying to manage and maintain servers? Never have a large enough operations team? Don’t have a budget for running lots of server? Don’t want to pay for servers siting idle? Afraid you might become so popular that you won’t be able to scale fast enough? Don’t worry, it is possible to alleviate these issues by moving to a serverless architecture that utilizes microservices hosted in the cloud. This type of architecture can support all different types of clients including web, mobile and IoT. During this hands-on workshop, you will build a serverless application utilizing AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and a datastore.

Christopher Judd – Building Lightsabers
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a tradition of Younglings constructing their first lightsaber on the way to becoming a Padawan and ultimately a Jedi Knight. This tradition will continue at the Kalahari as the KidzMash Younglings learn about basic electronics and build their own lightsabers in this fun-filled workshop surrounded by the Force.

David Lucas – A new storm is brewing: Spring Data Flow Server for Kubernetes
What do you get when you combine Spring Integrations, Data, and Kubernetes? You get an awesome data microservices tool that orchestrates long running streams and short lived tasks via JVM processes. This session will introduce the Spring Data Flow Server for Kubernetes, its awesome UI dashboard and how to create streams and tasks using the UI designer. It creates an environment where creating microservices is easier by providing a layer over top of Kubernetes and Docker. This demo will show how to setup and create some example streams and tasks.

John Pendexter – A Synchronicity – Asynchronous Programming in Android
Mobile application responsiveness can make or break user experience. It is dramatically apparent when an application hangs for fractions of a second. On mobile devices that traditionally have less memory than their desktop counter parts, it is important to write code in such a way that resource intensive operations do not impact the experience. This often means asynchronous programming. The Android platform has numerous ways of writing asynchronous code. This session will explore many of the paradigms for handling asynchronous code on Android, including async tasks, adapters, services, loaders, queues, and events. Pros and cons and appropriate situations for these approaches will be discussed. Developers attending this session will leave with the tools to load data asynchronously and provide the smoothest UI experience for users of their Android applications.

Steve Swing – Rules as an Architectural Pattern For Development
Rule-based architectural patterns produce solutions that are highly performant, composable, loosely coupled, flexible, and can be thoroughly tested. A rule-based approach to application logic integrates well with other architectural patterns such as big data analysis output, streaming data pipelines for real-time processing, or message-oriented processing. Rule-based architectures complement microservices architectures too. Large unwieldy opaque rule engines of the past are not required. Nor are rule-specialized languages and tooling. Developers don’t need specialized training when rules are implemented with the language of the project, available collections API, and business domain language. This session describes an internal architectural pattern to implement complex business logic to deliver quality software that endures. The concepts can be implemented in any language.

What is CodeMash?

CodeMash is a unique event that educates developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held every January at the lush Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark.

It’s not just about a grind of sessions, but also providing attendees the opportunity of continuing the conversations and networking outside of the daily conference events. The goal has always been to achieve this mission by creating a conference environment that focuses on professionalism and respect for one another.