With just 5 weeks to go until Code Generation 2008 we’ve been pretty busy tying down the final details…

Early-bird booking period closed at the end of March with bookings up 150% on last year’s levels - looks like word is spreading about the conference.

The event programme is now complete. We added details of the two remaining sessions a few weeks ago. Jean-Marc Prieur of Microsoft will run a tutorial on “Bidirectional DSLs : Synchronizing Model and code in Visual Studio” and Jos Warmer of Ordina will lead a goldfish bowl session entitled “Microsoft DSL Tools: User Experiences”.  Our Thursday night social event will see us take a trip to Cambridge Arts Picturehouse for a mystery movie and some time in the bar.

Places on our hands-on session ‘Using openArchitectureWare for M2M and M2T’ are limited and are going fast so if you do want to take part in that specific session please book as soon as possible and let us know you want to take part in that session. We have added an extra speaker to this session but that only increase capacity to 18.

Peter Bell is doing good work collating suggestions for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. I’ve seen 5 Birds-of-a-Feather session ideas so far and Peter tells me that more are on the way.

We also have a couple more event supporters. InfoQ.com have joined as a Media Partner for CG2008. In case you didn’t know it’s an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development. JPMorgan have also joined as a supporting partner.

Homerton College have also made some bedrooms available in case you haven’t yet booked your accommodation. See here for details on how to book these with the college.

More news on the event as time permits…