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Well, as expected the 4th Code Camp pulled together by our most awesome D.E., Thom Robbins, was fabulous. I had to basically breeze in and out as I fine tuned my talks until noon on Saturday, drove the 4 hours to Waltham and gave 2 talks. Then gave 2 more talks the next morning, hung around for a bit and headed back to Vermont. With my focus on 4 topics it was hard to absorb content from other people’s sessions which was a big disappointment. There were so many great people talking about very interesting and valuable things. I still haven’t figured out how Sam Gentile pulled off doing 3 talks in one day! I think a few other people did this too. Amazing. I was most disappointed thought to miss Dave Burke’s session on Building Smart Client Apps in .NET 2.0. He is reluctant to present at his very own user group but I will keep pressuring him (mwuahaha) to get him to do this talk for Vermont.NET sometime in 2006.
There was a crew from Vermont – over 10 people from Vermont.NET, which is the most who have made the trip of all four Code Camps.
I really enjoyed not only seeing old friends, but meeting in person for the first time some folks who I have communicated a lot with on email. In particular, Phil Denoncourt, who runs the New England C# group and Andy Beaulieu who started CNY Developers in Syracuse New York (my home town) where I am going to speak next week.
I loved doing my sessions. One on Virtual Earth where I made sure everyone was familiar with the awesome resources on ViaVirtualEarth and showed them some of the tricky things I have had to figure out in my Virtual Earth does Ink app. I think what made the deepest impresssion on those in the session was seeing some of the various imaginative and useful web applications people have done using Virtual Earth. It really helps get the ideas rolling. I will write another post with specific links for this talk.
I also did two “standards” which I am very passionate about – new goo in ADO.NET 2.0 which was followed by an impromptu lunch time session digging further into Query Notification and the other is my attempt to teach the world about some of the crypto tools that are key for doing Web Service security.
The fourth talk is a new one for me: What’s new in WSE 3.0. I really love what the team has done with this new version of the WSE API and love being able to share this information.
Again, I will write a separate post with links to resources, decks and demos for these talks.
But what is most important about Code Camp is to thank Thom Robbins. He pulls off a 2 day “conference” with 80 sessions and over 500 attendees as though it was absolutely no effort at all. Get the speakers to commit to sessions, create a schedule, order some pizza and sandwiches and the rest just seems to happen all by itself. Or so he likes us to think. 🙂 Thanks Thom, once again.
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Often, the last day of a conference is a real downer – the expo hall is gone, people have already started leaving. But for me and many, the conference was still in full swing. I had two must-see sessions to attend in the morning. The first was by WSE P.M. Mark Fussell on interoping Indigo and WSE 3.0 messages. The second was a 400 level session by ADO.NET P.M. Pablo Castro on Advanced Data Access Patterns in ADO.NET 2.0.
As the previous day’s first session was 10am I had it in my head that the Mark’s talk was at 10am, so I was really frustrated at 9:30am when I was still packing up my things in the hotel room to realize that his talk started at 8:30. Uggh. Luckily I was able to catch up with Mark later who [read more…]
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One thing I love to do at conferences is the Hands on Labs. There is no email or i.m. or phone to interrupt you while you are working. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to do them this time around while at PDC, but I did do some of them when I got home, in preparation for a talk titled “What I saw at PDC” that I gave at my user group (Vermont.NET) on Monday night. The two sets of labs that I did were for LINQ and for Atlas – two technologies that I am *really* excited about. [read more …]
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I was astonished at how many people attended the Atlas talks. Here is a photo I took of the sea of people (I had to stand on a chair) during the first of the two sessions. I took this to show to my fellow ASPInsiders, but of course want to share with everyone. Click on the photo for a larger view.
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Rather than focusing on my talks and demos for Code Camp IV: Developer’s Gone Wild, I find I am spending all of my time getting decks and demos from various machines and vpcs all onto one computer. I am really happy that now I will have one computer to use for all of my demos – until it’s time to start showing Vista (when I can get the video drivers to work with a projector that is).
I still haven’t figured out how I managed to have four sessions at Code Camp. 🙂
Well, soon I’ll have everything in one place and can get to the real task at hand…
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I’ll be the guy carrying the Accoridan case
not quite what Microsoft has in mind when they say “mobile pc” – but it works for me (so long as I don’t have to carry it for him!)
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Adam Cogan is doing workshops in 4 US cities about moving access apps to .NET.
Here’s more info and the US and other worldwide schedule
The U.S. workshops are soon!
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