The Chicago Coder Conference 2015 was held on May 14-15. The conference is locally organized by the community including the Chicago JUG, which is why it was important for us to support the event. The event is somewhat Java leaning but also has great presence from the web, .NET, database, etc communities.
I delivered talks on JMS 2 and aligning JavaScript/HTML5 with Java EE 7. Chicago based Java EE advocate Josh Juneau covered what's coming in Java EE 8. More details on the sessions and the trip to Turkey, including slide decks and code, posted on my personal blog.
