Code Generation 2009 - Early Bird Ends Soon

I see so many people making the same simple mistakes when writing code generators and other tooling for building applications more quickly. Code Generation really is the premier practitioner conference for anyone interested in developing applications more quickly through code gen, domain specific modeling and software product lines. I'm also really excited by the keynote speakers this year. Steve and Markus really are two of the top minds in DSM/code gen, but at the same time they're practical and good communicators. The keynotes are going to be great.

We've also pulled together an excellent program from a lot of great submissions and I'm certainly looking forwards to getting some more experience with MetaEdit+ and openArchitectureWare as well as to see what Microsoft is up to these days with their DSL tools and to learn from the various other presentations and case studies. And as always I'm looking forwards to the "informal" learnings in the bars in the evenings. I'll be leading a panel at the end of the conference on "The State of the Art in Domain Specific Modeling" which I think (given the panelists I have so far) could be a really interesting sesison.

If you're going to be in the UK, the entire conference is £485.00 + VAT and shorter packages start from £195.00 + VAT. Really, when you compare it to the cost of writing code by hand or developing and maintaining a badly architected or conceived generator, it's an excellent investment.

I hope to see some of you there.