Speakers.txt

We are still confirming and finalizing speakers this list is subject to change.

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  Syntax Highlighting is for Suckers

  Todd H Gardner @toddhgardner

  Microsoft Notepad MVP Contender, plain-text wrangler.

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  Advanced Pasting Techniques

  Jason Bock @jasonbock

  Microsoft Notepad Insider, Copy-Paste maverick.

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  To Monospace or Not To Monospace: A Guide to What Typeface You Should Be Using

  Tim G Thomas @timgthomas

  Microsoft Notepad Insider, Comic Sans Lover.

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  .TXT: NoSQL before it was cool

  Kristina Durivage @gelicia

  Text-Storage Guru Extraordinaire.

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  H, J, K, L are Dead: Upgrading your personal editing process to the arrow key era

  Daniel Feldman @d_feldman

  Microsoft Notepad Insider, Recovering IDE User.

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  A Look at Notepad vNext

  Adam Microsoft @codel8r

  Microsoft Notepad Program Manager.

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  Anything can be opened with notepad

  Mattias Karlsson @devlead

  Advanced Notepad developer and VIM opponent.

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  A Lap Around the Notepad Menu Bar

  Mike Hodnick @kindohm

  Creator of OpenNotepad, the Notepad.exe port to OSX

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  Ten Ways Exiting Notepad is Better Than Exiting Vim

  Jim Holmes @aJimHolmes

  Author of "Reading Twitter with Notepad"

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  Modern Retro Notepad: Locally-Sourced Hand-Crafted Artesian Text

  David Neal @reverentgeek

  Acclaimed speaker on Notepad productivity

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  ASCII Art in Notepad

  Jenna Pederson @jennapederson

  Notepad Evangelist

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  Hacking Notepad.exe : Using a hex editor to change the blue icon and more

  Jake Good @gooberdlx

  Notepad Hacker

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  Notepad internationalization - It's the BOM!

  Brian Repko @BrianRepko

  Notepad Architect and Agile pracitioner, advocating lean processes managed by Notepad.

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  Increasing Productivity With Notepad & .LOG

  Nik Molnar @nikmd23

  Host of the NotepadWeekly Podcast and n.exe Advocate.

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  The Future Roadmap of Notepad, everything we plan to do ever.

  Caleb Jenkins @CalebJenkins

  Notepad Luminary and Tarot Card Reader

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  Workshop: Integrating Spell Checking Into Notepad.

  Ivan Towlson @ppog_penguin

  Attendees should bring a copy of Notepad, and a dictionary.

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  Animation with Notepad and Symbola.ttf!

  William Ockham @WilliamOckhamTx

  Symbola added the watchface icons from Unicode 7.0. If you enter one per line in correct order and size the window properly, you can create the ever popular "clock with spinning hands" to signal the passage of time. All by just moving the thumb on the scrollbar.

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  Notepad Development on the Mac using Parallels

  Jaim Zuber @jaimzuber

  OSX Notepad Pioneer and OpenNotepad Contributor

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  Making Slideshows with Notepad.

  Brian Morearty @BMorearty

  You can use asterisks OR dashes for bullets. Need nesting? There's your spacebar.

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  Migrating to Notepad from edlin.exe

  Rohn Blake @Rohn

  Notepad.exe Labs Academic and Researcher.

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  Notepad.exe: the Cornerstone of iOS Swift Development

  Bob MacNeal @BobMacNeal

  Developer and Writer, Notepad is the only tool I can use for both!

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  My Name Is MUD: Building Games in Notepad.exe

  James Kovacs @JamesKovacs

  Combine the power of Notepad.exe and AutoHotKey to build a Multi-User Dungeon. Not only will Notepad.exe be used to write the game, Notepad.exe will host the game!

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  Indypad - Becoming a Freelance Notepad Consultant

  Chris Massey @camassey

  Learn this one weird trick for becoming a Notepad consultant. MS Word users hate this!

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  Workshop: Advanced Arrow Development

  James Campbell

  focus on usage of hyphens, equality indicators, carets, Vs and pipes!

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  Advanced techniques: Stopping Shutdown with your Favorite Editor.

  Peter Morlion @petermorlion

  Is it stopping, or slowing down? An hour to verify that question should be sufficient.

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  Unformatting with Notepad: Bridging the Gap to Format Freedom

  Bryan Rhea @brheal

  Notepad Typesetter

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  Word, Word, Word: Word Is for the Birds: How too many damn options stunt creativity.

  Jesse Pickrain @jpickrain

  Notepad Marketing Lead. Concerned Writer.

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  Roundtable: To Wrap Or Not To Wrap

  Daryl Davis @easthollow

  A Panel Discussion of text-wrapping, the illusion of whitespace, and spaces vs tabs.

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  Agile and SCRUM best practices with Notepad

  Youri Ackx @YouriAckx

  No more fiddling with post-its. Successfully manage your project and your team with Notepad. Build your burndown chart and scrum board the smart way.

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  Typographic Variations in Notepad: Seeing complex structures in plain text

  George Sanchez @petabyteflop

  Notepad Data Scientist and Astrologer

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  .txt.bak: Advanced Version Control

  Vincent Alsteen @_v1nc3nt_

  Notepad Insider, File system enthusiast, Recovering git user.

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  nowrap.txt.min: Managing your code with the horizontal scrollbar

  Eric Robbins @ThayerAvenue

  Save valuable server space while CTRL+scrolling through the development process.

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  Persisting textual changes to Notepad documents by saving.

  Murray Carr @onekilo79

  Notebook archivist.

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  From "Bush hid the facts" to the secrets of "Ctrl-Backspace".

  Igal Tabachnik @hmemcpy

  Notepad is an entire world hidden deep within! Want to learn more about Notepad Secrets?

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  The Magic of Plaintext

  Zachary Johnson @zacharyjohnson

  A tale of exploration and high adventure 20 years in the making, with a poignant and chilling conclusion.

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  Devops for the Notepad.exe Professional: Batch file scripting.

  Zach Lendon @zachlendon

  :: Notepad.exe is a robust environment from which you can manage your AWS cluster or your Frontpage Server extensions. if %devops% NEQ '0' you need to be at this session.

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  XML, Markdown, and JSON: Are they *truly* plaintext?

  David Bock @bokmann

  Sure, they look like plain text, but there's all kinds of "extra" meaning in there. Do these formats truly live up to the pragmatic tip: "keep knowledge in plain text"?

Call for Proposals is now closed, but share your topics anyway for Reject.txt in the Comments!