Sponsors


8th Light, Inc. is a Chicago-based Agile software development company with expertise in a variety of programming languages that writes beautiful applications for your web, mobile, and embedded projects. 8th Light also offers apprenticeships to push the limits of your knowledge in software development.

8th Light — Software is our craft™

Atomic Object creates custom software products — web, mobile, desktop, and embedded — that solve hard problems for our clients. We're an employee-owned firm with 3 Michigan offices and a national base of clients.

NCSA is the exclusive athletic recruiting network that educates, assists, and connects families, coaches and companies so they can save time and money, get ahead and give back.

GitHub is the best way to build software together. GitHub provides tools for easier collaboration and code sharing from any device. Start collaborating today — open source project hosting is free.

Media Sponsors


Clean Coders is all about educational videos for software professionals, by software professionals. Our code-casts are rich with content and entertainment! Watch instantly at cleancoders.com and change the way you think about code, about design, about your disciplines, and about your profession.

Built In Chicago is a rapidly growing online community dedicated to promoting digital entrepreneurs and innovators in Chicago. In less than two years, the social startup has positioned Chicago as a leading center for digital technology innovation.

Skills Matter is a highly social, innovative tech startup, with a mission to support and drive innovation in enterprise software development.

InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson, the world's largest learning company.

UGtastic is an ongoing series of conversational interviews with people who make technical communities interesting.