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
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John to Columbia MD to the CMAP user group. IT was a great experience. The attendees were engaged and interested. It was a great experience for me. I hope to be asked back again.
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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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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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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John has once again been invited to present at the NoVa Code camp. The topic will be silverlight LOB apps.
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John will be presenting at the Richmond Code Camp. His talk will be titled: Building Silverlight LOB Apps.
See you there.
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John and company were in Raleight on September 19, 2009. The camp was a rousing success and got to meet a lot of new people. Dug Wilson and crew put on a spectacular affair with a great lineup of speakers.
I talked on Mobile Development to an entusiastic room with about 25 attendees.
The code and slides are here:
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I will be in Allentown for the Lehigh Valley .Net user's group on 20 July 2009. Topic will be building LOB apps in Silverlight. The next day, I will be at Central Penn User group in Harrisburg talking on the same thing. If you're out and about, stop by and say hi.
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What a weekend! It started with a 12 hour drive from Philadelphia to Knoxville on Thursday, 25 June 2009. I am still trying to reconcile how a traffic engineer could design the approach to 495 from I-95. Having multiple lanes feed to 2 lanes three or four times before you finally get to 495 is absolutely amazing. 2 of my 12 hours was spent twiddling my thumbs in this traffic.
Once free of the DC bottleneck, the trip was uneventful. I arrived in Knoxville around 8pm and went to the Mellow Mushroom where the un-official pre-dinner was being held. It was good to see a bunch of friends and have some really good food. The place puts an interesting twist on all their dishes. My Italian sub had balsamic sauteed onions as well as some obscure italian meats. It was really good, but completely different.
The conference itself was awesome. I wasn't scheduled to speak until Saturday so I had a bunch of free time to indulge myself in sessions. The open spaces sessions led by Alan Stevens were the highlight of the conference. There were some really great discussions surrounding things like "how do I get started with TDD", 'How do you start a software business", "how to you advertise yourself to increase business", etc.
Saturday's sessions included an awesome presentation by John Robbins on the .net Debugger. I thought to myself what can I learn at a debugger session? I 'm glad I went. Calling functions and methods from the watch window... I would never have thought that was possible. I learned so much from that session alone.
The Silverlight sessions were great too. Chad Campbell talked about the "Out of Browser" experience and showed all of the new events and how to tie into them to determine whether or not the app is running in or out of the browser.
Sam Nasr talked about Server communications with Silverlight and demo'd an RSS feed class.
My Mobile talk was well received. There were approx 20 people in attendance and there was a lot of energy in the room.
Download MobileDevelopement-Codestock
The 1368 miles roundtrip was well worth the time spent with the crowd at Codestock. If you have the chance to attend next year, I would highly recommend it.
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