I wonder if this is what Jason’s newscasts look like! 🙂

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Code Camp III is looking for speakers for the Mar 12/13th event in Waltham MA. Code Camp II had 62 speakers. Out of all of them, there was one chick and she was a ‘Softie. Surely there are some women developers in the Boston area who have something cool and .NET-ty or related to talk about?? This is not an event where the coordinators invite speakers. Anyone can submit sessions. You don’t have to be an experienced speaker even. There are not only session rooms, but chalk talks, which are small and you would lead a discussion but not necessarily stand in front of a crowd doing powerpoints and demos. Here is a document that you can use to submit ideas for talks. Here is where you can see what the schedule looked like for Code Camp II.

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John Robbins is speaking tomorrow night in Montreal at GUVSM . He and his wife, Pam, decided to take advantage of being in that fantastic city and went up a little early, passing through Burlington. So we met up yesterday for lunch at the Burlington Pub and Brewery and then wandered around Church St for a while, visiting some of my favorite places I like to show off to out of towners: Frog Hollow State Craft Center and incredible shop featuring some of the finest crafts people (and even companies like Simon Pearce) in Vermont, Lake Champlain Chocolates (mmmmmmm…) and some others. I couldn’t lure them into Kiss The Cook, but Rich and I got to go afterwards.

It is really fun to hang out with fellow geeks and NOT talk shop! It’s kind of rude to geek out when 1/2 of the group (i.e. Pam and Rich) are not geeks. So we got to just have a normal time talking about normal things – food, travel, food, travel and beer, too. (just kidding).

Talk with Bill Evjen about his book ASP.NET 2.0 Beta Preview tomorrow morning on the first Microsoft Book Club Author Webcast!! This is an evolution of the .NET Book Club started by Jeff Julian!!

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She didn’t happen to mention it to me, but I found out anyway through a referrer that Beth Massi, a chick who’s brain moves faster than anyone I have ever met, has started blogging. Beth is not only an incredibly smart developer, but she can also rebuild a car engine and has even managed to convince me to get back *out* of bed at 10pm to go out for a drink (along with some additional arm twisting by Marcie…) I expect her blog to be entertaining and very enlightening.

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I’m *really* flattered. Rod is the Editor in Chief of the fabulous Code Magazine. He also blogs over at OfficeZealot. Rod is enviabley playing with Avalon right now. #1  #2  #3.

In the current issue’s editorial he lists my blog among his favorites in some damned fine company. (Including one of my favorites: Rick Strahl.) So thanks, Rod.

I met Rachel when I presented at this Pennsylvania user group run by Jason Gaylord a while ago. She’s really smart. She does a lot of talks at DotNetValley. You other PA groups should see if you can lure her to present for you, too!! Here’s  Jason’s post her next talk at DotNetValley.

Here is her bio:

Currently, Rachel Appel is an independent consultant providing development and training services. Rachel has been developing and architecting applications for various organizations, mostly using Microsoft technologies. She has also is involved in the training community by working with Microsoft and their training partners to create and deliver quality courseware for developers. Rachel also holds the MCAD MCSD and MCT certifications from Microsoft and other certifications from Macromedia.

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Roman Rehak, track chair for SQL PASS (and a local Burlington guy!!) has just announced the call for presentations for 2005. From his blog:

PASS just announced call for presentations for the 2005 PASS Community Summit in Grapevine, Texas. As always, this will be the largest SQL Server event in the world. It is organized by a large group of volunteers passionate about SQL Server. I will be again working on the program commitee as one of the track leaders for the Database and Application Development track. Every  year we encourage community user experts to step forward and consider doing a presentation.  If you’d like to speak, you can submit your proposals here. Please provide a detailed and accurate abstract, the experience level and the appropriate track. The competition is tough, we receive a lot of great proposals. You will improve your chances if you submit more than one session proposal.

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CodeRoom has a trailer online. I just can’t figure out how you can ask a person devoted to unit testing and architecture to hack out an application in a few hours. LOL. Poor Scott.

It will be on t.v. and eventually online. That is one sicko idea for a reality show. 🙂

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The original Boston Area Code Camp returns March 12/13th with Code Camp 3! If you have something to present, Thom Robbins is accepting abstracts and registration at the above link.

Code Camps are starting to pop up around the country thanks to the Developer Evangelists picking up on Thom’s great success.

I’m hearing buzz about

Greater PA Code Camp in April

One in Raleigh NC area in April

Something in Florida

and I think I heard something about St. Louis…

there will be more

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