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NOVA Code Camp - 10 Oct 2009

John and crew participated in the Fall code camp in Reston.  Jeff Schoolcraft and his volunteers did a great job of putting on a good show.  There were about 100 people there and they were ready to talk code.

I sat through most of the Silverlight sessions which were pretty good.  Frank LaVigne demo'd some cool stuff using deep zoom and silverlight.

For those interested, my code and ppt's are available (you'll need the northwind db to run the sample) here: Download Nova Code Camp

Richmond Code Camp

John & Company traveled to Richmond for the 2nd code camp of the year and had a great time.  There were a number of great presentations, Joel Cochran, Stephen Michelotti, and Page Brooks captured my attention in their presentations.

For those of you, who haven't attended a code camp, get busy.  They're free, fall on a saturday, have food and will feed not only your body but your mind. 

My presentation on Domain Services via the RIA framework seemed to be well received.  If you're interested in this, you can download the code here:

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Philadelphia Code Camp, October 17, 2009

John will be at the Philly code cam.  Topic will be Silverlight LOB Apps.  See you there.

I don't know why they constantly pick me to be the first speaker of the day in my track, but it happened again.  Ususally when I'm out of town, I quip, "I guess the look to see who's coming the farthest distance and then put them up first in the schedule."  All joking aside, it was nice to get my presentation out of the way early, so I could enjoy the presentations the rest of the day.

It started with Todd Snyder of Infragistics speaking about RIA Framework services, followed by John Angelini talking Silverlight Animations.  The main man, Bill Wolf will be up next with "Data binding in Silverlight".

Last night, I went out with the gang from VA, Joel Cochran, Kevin Griffin, and Steve Presley.  We ended up at Drexel Line Billiards where we spent a couple of hours shooting pool.   I now know why pro's quit playing when they hit their 60's.  I can barely move today.  Stiff, sore, and my back is killing me from bending all night.

For those of you interested, you can download the presentation code here:

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Fairfield/Westchester Code Camp

John and crew will be in Connecticut this weekend for the Fairfield/Westchester Code camp.  We attended last year and had a great time and met some awesome people.

John will be talking about mobile development and SQLce.

If you're in the area, stop by a say hello. 

Well the code camp was a success.  about 150+ attendees and a great group of people.  Got a chance to renew friendships with some speakers and had a great time.  dinner afterwards was a little over the top, but MS's crew handled it with great aplomb!

The PowerPoint and code are here:

Download FairfieldCodeCamp2008.zip

CMAP Code Camp Fall Edition 2008

The CMAP code camp on October 25, 2008 was a rousing success.  Chris Steen and his group did a marvelous job once again.

I presented to well attended sessions on TDD with .nUnit and Compact Framework Development.

The slide decks are available here:

Download CMAPCodeCampFall2008.zip

Philly Code Camp 2008.3

I was at the Philly Code Camp on October 11, 2008, to support the local community with its latest code camp edition.  We had nearly 450 attendees and 54 speakers (16 MVPs) so it was well worth while.

I delivered my session on Mobile Development with the .Net Compact Framework and SQL Server Compact Edition.

I attended a number of great sessions, especially Kevin Hazzard's Injecting Python code into c#.  Excellent.

You can download the slidedeck here:

Richmond Code Camp 2008.2

Just returned from another great Code Camp.  Andy Leonard, Kevin Israel and Kevin Hazzard did an excellent job in pulling off another code camp.  The new venue at the community college was tremendous.  Nice rooms, tables, and working equipment.

I got a chance to spend some time with some of the movers & shakers in the .net world:  Ted Neward, Amanda Laucher, Dana, Jessica Moss, Jess Chadwick and Chris Eargle. 

Here is the demo stuff from the talk:

Boston Code Camp v10

John and crew will be on the road tomorrow, bound for Boston.  John will be delivering two sessions on Sunday on Compact Framework Development with PPC's and SQLCe, and another on Test-Driven Development.

If you're in the Boston area, stop by and say hello.  See you there.

Download the presentations (powerpoint and code) here:

Download CompactFramework-BostonCC10.zip

Download TestDriven-BostonCC10.zip

Richmond Code Camp RCC 2008.1

I just returned from a great time at the Richmond Code Camp.  The crowd was experienced and anxious to learn.

I presented to well attended sessions and the feeback was positive.  I met Andy Leonard and Darrell Norton, two of the driving forces in the Richmond area users groups leadership.  These guys and their volunteers did a great job of putting on a show.

I sat in on three sessions:

1.  WPF Binding - Darrell Norton did a great job discussing binding in WPF in all of its forms and flavors.

2.  Refactoring - Jonathon Cogley - Thycotic, did a great presentation on how and why to refactor.  He used a generate primes class and then refactored it on the fly with us. 

3.  ASP.net MVC -  Sexto Saetz - Another great presentation on the new MVC technology.

You can download my presentation materials here:

Download TestDriven-Richmond2008.zip

Download CompactFramework-Richmond2008.zip

Richmond Code Camp

John will be in the Richmond, Va area on April 26, 2008, to present two sessions to the Richmond Code Camp Attendees.  Watch for a brief summary of the days events.