I’ll be publishing my own reflections on June’s Code Generation 2008 event real soon now but a number of the other participants have already posted their thoughts:

Peter Kovari was first off the mark with postings recording his highlights for each conference day. Peter summarised by saying that “it was an excellent conference with a lot of great presentations from the top experts on this field, great discussions during panels, BoFs and Goldfish Bowls. A lot of new ideas, thoughts and questions to take away to consolidate and look for answers until next year’s event.” 

Clemens Reijnen enjoyed the conference and was also taken with the goldfish bowl sessions we ran. He’s also included a few photos and a short video from the conference.

Jan said it was“…probably one of the most inspiring conferences I’ve been to. The unique combination of a beautiful surrounding with highly intellectual people, created a steady flow of ideas.” and the event gave him plenty to think about.

In CG2008 - more than just content one participant noted that one of the big benefits of the event is the chance to meet with many people with similar and different experiences of code generation. In fact that author was one of a handful of people who were still at the event as we packed up and left, maybe they’re still there

Jan Köhnlein had ‘fun’ at the conference mixing with a lot of people with interesting views and news.

Leonardo Gomes provides a nice write-up of the main conference themes and notes “During the quite intensive three days of conference, we had the opportunity to listen, learn, discuss, meet great people and have a lot of fun.“

Finally, MetaCase have also mentioned the event in their July 2008 newsletter noting “[This event] is cementing itself as a key event for thought leaders in the fields of code generation and model-driven development.”

With these and several other participants also commenting on the intensity of the event maybe we’ll have to ease the pace for Code Generation 2009, after all, some of us aren’t getting any younger

Thanks to everyone who shared their experiences and contributed to making it a memorable event.

Update 14th July 2008

Sean Kavanagh has also written about the event. In his posting he highlights the Goldfish Bowl discussion: Modelling Standards: what exists, what’s missing and what failed?  as the most interesting panel session. Sean has a long background in modelling and Code Generation and also makes some interesting observations about the state of executable UML.