Code Camp

Philly Code Camp 2011.1 will be held April 9th at DeVry in Fort Washington. And we have a great line up of tracks this year, even a couple new web related tracks lead by John Petersen and Marc Ziss. We always have a great turn out of interested and eager developers because we have great topics, presented by even greater speakers, and that is why we cannot do it with out you, the speaker. So if you are interested in submitting a topic for one of the following tracks: ...

We are now in the process of accepting sponsors for Philly Code Camp 2011.1. The charity we are sponsoring this time around is: So if you would like to count yourself amongst these fabulous companies, please feel free to contact me to join our family of sponsors. You can find the information about sponsoring Code Camp 2011.1 after the break. Code Camp 2011.1 Saturday April 9****th 2011 from 8:30-5:00 Hosted at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA ...

October 9 Code Camp 2010.2 Saturday Fort Washington, PA Platinum Partners DeVry University Microsoft Gold Partners Apprenda SaaSGrid CapTech Consulting ComponentOne Gibraltar Software GitHub GrapeCity Hosting.com LiquidHub TEK Systems Turnberry Solutions Silver Partners Addison-Wesley ComponentArt Telerik Charity Alex’s Lemonade Stand Our second 2010 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 9 from 8:30-5:00. Please register at EventBrite. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. - Lots of code, just say no to slides! - 8 hours of learning and networking - 64 sessions by 56 speakers (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30) - 13 tracks - 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome) - Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack - Raffles and prizes at lunch and closing - New Booster registration option for charity donations, parties, and prizes - Easy parking - Convenient hotels (Holiday Inn, 432 Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Washington, PA 215.643.3000) - After hours party the Brick House, Willow Grove (network with speakers and attendees) All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (Apprenda, CapTech Consulting, ComponentOne, Gibraltar Software, GitHub, GrapeCity, Hosting.com, LiquidHub, TEK Systems, and Turnberry Solutions), Silver partners (Addison-Wesly, ComponentArt, Telerik) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft). Here is the tentative track list. Click on the speaker names below to see the speaker bio and session topic. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda: 8:00 Registration, continental breakfast Alt.NET - Brian Donahue - 141 8:30 Brian Donahue - iPhone/Mobile App Development - Lessons Learned by a Web Developer 10:00 John Zablocki - Building .NET Applications with NoRM and MongoDB 12:30 Kendall Miller - A Year in the Life of an ISV 2:00 Steven Bohlen - Unit Testing Patterns and Anti-Patterns 3:30 Dean Poulin - Depency Injection with Structure Map Architecture - Mitch Ruebush - 107 8:30 Mitch Ruebush - Designing and Architecting Mobile Applications 10:00 Kendall Miller - Designing for Others: Lessons from Commercial API Development 12:30 Abraham Sultan - How Regular .NET Apps Become Multi-tenant Cloud Products… in a 45 Minute Sitting! 2:00 Michael Montgomery - Modern Software Architecture 3:30 Matt Mondok - Enterprise Search with ASP.NET MVC and Apache Solr ASP.NET - Nick Berardi - 110 8:30 John V. Petersen - Extending ASP MVC with jQuery, AJAX and JSON 10:00 Nick Berardi - On the cutting edge with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor 12:30 Ned Ames - ASP.Net MVC - Client To Server, There and Back Again 2:00 Rachel Appel - Web Forms or MVC? 3:30 Adam Tuliper - Hack-Proofing your ASP.NET / MVC Web Applications Silverlight - John Angelini - 108 8:30 Steve Basl - Silverlight 101: Back to the Basics 10:00 John Angelini - Bring Your Silverlight UI to Life with Animation 12:30 Marc Ziss - Intor to RIA Services 2:00 Matt Van Horn - Developing for LightSwitch 3:30 Rajasekhar Karumuru - Using WCF for Silverlight App Best Practices SharePoint - David Mann - 125 8:30 Michael Mukalian - Custom Actions in SharePoint 2010 10:00 David Mann - Javascript Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 12:30 Becky Isserman - Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight 2010 2:00 Bill Wolff - Running philly.NET on SharePoint 2010 3:30 Charles Chen - Object Oriented Development and Practices in SharePoint Visual Studio - Rob Keiser - 111 8:30 David Isbitski - Expression Studio for Developers 10:00 Joan Wolff - Beginning Web Development with WebMatrix 12:30 John V. Petersen - Introduction to Visual Studio Lightswitch 2:00 Rob Keiser - Visual Studio Extensions 2:00 Doug White - Intro to R Framework - Jess Chadwick - 109 8:30 David Hoerster - An Intro to Threading in .NET 10:00 Jess Chadwick - What’s New in .NET 4.0 12:30 John Zablocki - Extending .NET Applications with the Dynamic Language Runtime 2:00 Todd Snyder - Reactive extensions for .Net (RX) 3:30 Joy Chakraborty - Functional Programming using C# and F# Tools - Travis Laborde - 113 8:30 Christine Murphy - From Trash To Treasure: Refactor with Confidence 10:00 Jeffrey McArthur - Automated Deployment using Hudson and MSDeploy 12:30 Travis Laborde - Travis’ Top Ten Tools Tips and Tricks - Take Two! 2:00 Buchanan Dunn - Managing Software Evolution with Mercurial 3:30 Miguel Castro - Software That Survives - part 2: Using the Pipeline Framework Data - Dane Morgridge - 130 8:30 Dane Morgridge - Getting Started With Entity Framework 4 10:00 David Hoerster - Introduction to WCF Data Services and the OData Protocol 12:30 Rich Dudley - BI Reporting on Windows Azure 2:00 Joseph D’Antoni - Deploying Data Tier Applications with VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 3:30 Dani Diaz - SQL Azure SQL & BI - Said Salomon - 158 8:30 Kevin S. Goff - Cool Reporting Features in SSRS 2008R2 10:00 Muthu Ramanathan - What’s New in SQL 2008 R2 12:30 Mark Kromer - Cheap & quick data integration with PowerPivot 2:00 Alex Grinberg - .NET scripting for SQL Server BI and T-SQL scripts 3:30 Said Salomon - Database Snapshots Beginner - Judy Calla - 121 8:30 Judy Calla - Getting Started in Visual Studio for Mainframe Programmers - Part 1 10:00 Judy Calla - Getting Started in Visual Studio for Mainframe Programmers - Part 2 12:30 Lisa Roszko - Intro to Reporting Services 2:00 Brian Lyttle - An Introduction to Production Debugging 3:30 Joan Wolff - SharePoint 2010 for Beginners - Just the Facts IT - Paul Begley - 102 10:00 Terrie Zimmerman - Jumping onto the Cloud with BPOS 12:30 Laura Hunter - Managing User Identities in the Cloud and Beyond 2:00 Paul Begley - Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 and High Availability 3:30 Bill Wolcken - PowerShell Jumpstart for Administrators and Developers Windows Phone - Dani Diaz 8:30 John Baird - Windows Phone 7 - The developer story with Silverlight 10:00 Chris Gomez - Windows Phone 7 Games With XNA 12:30 Dani Diaz - Behind The App: A closer look at the development of a WP7 App 2:00 Chris Love - 10 Things to Make You a Great Mobile Web Developer 3:30 David Isbitski - From Idea to Interactivity: Design Guidelines for Windows Phone 7 11:30 Social networking in the break room, hoagies, drinks and snacks 4:45 evals, lots of raffle prizes 5:00-? After hours party at the Brick House, Willow Grove

We have a great line up of tracks this year, even a new one led by our very own, Philly area Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Danny Diaz. This is our 5th year in a row hosting Code Camp for the Philly area, and each and every year we have a great turn out, with over 500 developers showing up last time. We have this great turn out because we have great topics, presented by even greater speakers, and that is why we cannot do it with out you, the speaker. So if you are interested in submitting a topic for one of the following tracks: ...

We are now in the process of accepting sponsors for Philly Code Camp 2010.2. This is our family of partners, with an international reach that have continued to partner ship us over the years, I am sure you have heard of most if not all of them: And some of our new sponsors, we are welcoming this year to our family of partners: And the charity we are sponsoring this time around is: ...

This year for the ASP.NET Track, at Philly Code Camp 2010.2, there is going to be a heavy focus on getting started with some of the new[er] web technologies, with a couple caveats. In the past we have had a great mix of intro classes and advanced classes, but it really left little room in between for people professionally past the introductory sessions but not really ready to dive in to the advanced sections yet. And almost a rule of thumb for obvious reasons, the intro classes are very well attended, while the advanced topics are rather esoteric and not well attended compared to the intro topics. So this challenged me to think about the sessions we have had in the past and set goals for the ASP.NET track, and this time around: ...

Here is a copy of the presentation that I presented at the Philly Code Camp 2010.1 today. If you attended, thank you. If you didn’t attend here is the basic overlay of what I presented for you. Here are a couple of links used and referenced in the presentation: msdn.microsoft.com/vsx blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio The source of the examples I used: editorsamples.codeplex.com/ github.com/managedfusion/spark-visualstudio

As I announced earlier in the month, Philly Code Camp was searching for qualified speakers for many different topics surrounding .NET specifically .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Now, in this post, I have the pleasure to announce to you that we are going to be looking for sponsors for Philly Code Camp. If you have a product that you would like to present to over 500 targeted, attentive, and actively engaged .NET developers, please contact us today. ...

Philly.NET is looking for speakers to fill 60 sessions for Code Camp 2010.1. We have exciting news this year. 10 of the sessions will be broadcast live by the MSDN team in Redmond and posted to Channel 9. We need to set the agenda by March 12 so please get your submissions posted in the coming days. Enter your session details here… Details Our first 2010 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 10 from 8:30-5:00. Please register at EventBrite. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. ...

As I indicated a couple weeks ago I was going to be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.2. If you weren’t there you missed a great day of learning about many of the new technologies that are going to matter to you, as a developer, in the next 12 months. Not all of the topics were Microsoft related or even Developer related, for the first time this year there was an Enterprise IT track, targeting specifically you network admins. So Code Camp next year is something you should pay attention too, even if you are not a developer. ...