"Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we've discussed how to resolve our name confusion."

So I'm assuming by the above you mean you've become "good friends" after this:

http://www.udrpsearch.com/wipo/d2012-0857

Tl;dr

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/21/codecademy-beats-code-a...

Was there an attempt to avoid the UDRP process before and if so why didn't it work?