http://www.codecamp.org/

anybody going to this thing? a couple of my coworkers gave a session on agile practices at the code camp in charlotte a while back, i'll be attending the raleigh one this weekend.

a lot of these look really interesting, in particular the Ocean framework by Karl Shifflett. i'm also interested in the entity framework, linq to sql, design principles, agile practices and SOA sessions.

11/13/2008 10:11:15 PM

curious about the frameworks you've mentioned... though.. how old is that website?

11/13/2008 10:43:37 PM

yeah seriously. pretty pathetic

11/13/2008 10:45:20 PM

i'd go if i was going to be in town

11/13/2008 10:54:11 PM

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"Evan Kinney, Your TRINUG event registration has been processed. You have been registered for RDU Code Camp on 11/15/2008 from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM."

omg qntmken we can so like sit together and shit

11/13/2008 10:57:11 PM

who else we got? it's FREE, and if you're doing any kind of .NET work, there's sure to be some good stuff to learn here. not to mention the networking

11/14/2008 3:02:57 PM

ok this year's code camp is Saturday, September 19. It's a free, day-long event on .NET technologies. AWESOME sessions lined up for anybody interested in .NET
http://codecamp.org/

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"SpeakerName PresentationTitle Andy Leonard Database Design for Developers Chad Carter Making Money by Making Games with XNA Chris Love Bigger, Stronger, Faster - Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free Curtis Mitchell Ignite your ASP.NET MVC project with Spark View Engine David Elliott Implementing ADO.NET Data Services Derik Whittaker Drinking from carafe of SOLID can make your code strong like ox Diane Wilson Blend for Developers Edwin Ames Creating and Destroying Objects with C# Greg Pugh MVC something Jaime Simancas Team Documentation w/ OneNote James Bender Demystifying the WS-* Standards Jeremy Brown Building Composite Applications with Silverlight 3 and Prism Jim Duffy Building Business Applications in Silverlight 3 Jim Wooley Delegates, Lambda’s, and Expressions (Oh My!) Joe Bennett Building Composite WPF Applications Joel Cochran Templating and Data Binding in Expression Blend John Baird Beginning Windows mobile development John Blumenauer Developing WPF Applications with Prism John Feminella Ruby for C#/.NET Developers Josh Johnson Introduction to the AutoCAD API Kevin G. Boles SQL Injection Kevin Griffin jQuery From the Ground Up Kevin Hazzard Dynamic Language Performance Maria Hobbs National Inmate Study’s Re-engineering of the Data Framework via Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools with Domain Driven Design (DDD) Methods Michael C. Neel Lucene: Search We Can Believe In! Michael Eaton Improving our Craft: A Discussion on Software Estimation Michael Kimsal PHP On Windows Nate Kohari Bootstrapping for Fun and (Hopefully) Profit Rachel Appel Get jQuery.ready(with) Rachel Appel Rob Zelt Get Rich with UX in Silverlight Scott Cate The Ins and Outs of CloudDB Srinu Tulluri Sql Server 2008 Reporting Services for .NET Developers Steve Andrews Practical Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2008 Team System Steve Bodnar MVC and the Repository Pattern Youhana Naseim Visualizing Change Using TFS 2010 "

8/31/2009 10:17:28 AM

I'm gonna go, didn't know about it before, so thanks.

However,

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"Thank you for registereing"

8/31/2009 11:42:00 AM

Nice, there's a couple of people I know on that session list

8/31/2009 4:55:47 PM

As someone who doesn't do any .NET development now (but may in the future), is this something you'd still recommend going to?

8/31/2009 6:42:15 PM

sure. quite a few of the sessions are not MS specific. and for the ones that are, they will range from introductions of a topic to assuming an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. a lot of them are hands on too, where you'll actually be shown how to build a small demonstration of the technology during the course of the session - it's a great way to learn from experts in a particular field. either way, it's free, you can leave whenever you want and it's a good place to network with professionals who care about their craft

8/31/2009 7:28:03 PM

I have received two errors just by navigating through their page. I'll still go though.

8/31/2009 8:17:41 PM

this weekend

9/15/2009 3:47:11 PM

9/15/2009 3:49:18 PM

that link is from last year (when i originally made the thread). use http://codecamp.org

screw it, nobody reads or pays attention anyways. lemme just change the OP link too

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9/15/2009 3:51:31 PM

OIC.

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9/15/2009 4:00:17 PM

do they have something similar in Michigan/Chicago area? I am interested

9/15/2009 4:45:03 PM

damn i wish they would do it on a workday so i could get a training day instead of using my day off

i'll probably go

9/15/2009 4:57:54 PM

^^ oh absolutely. they have these all over the country. most cities have one once or twice a year. and there's usually user groups that meet once a month too for like an hour or something. check meetup.com for stuff in your area

9/18/2009 10:10:48 AM

ok thanks qntmgod

9/18/2009 10:23:37 AM

schedule is up btw

http://codecamp.org/Home/Schedule/default.aspx

9/18/2009 10:57:45 AM

wut happen at camp?

9/20/2009 6:54:48 PM

someone set us up the datasets

9/20/2009 9:36:17 PM

it was ok. not as good as some of the other code camps i've been to. there's a (supposedly MEGA) code camp in charlotte next month though. i went to the following sessions

Measuring and Improving the performance of ASP.NET applications
good presentation. excellent speaker. basically a walkthrough on how to use RedGate ANTS profiler, which I've used a little bit here and there.

Get Rich with UX in Silverlight
this one was ok. It was more a walkthrough on expression blend and sketchflow. I was hoping it would be more about UX principles and how to take advantage of the rich ux capabilities that silverlight offers

Drinking from the carafe of SOLID can make your code strong like ox
another great presenter. i'd seen people talk about SOLID a lot in blogs I read, but never took the 5 minutes to google what it actually is. So this guy did a walkthrough on a basic application and turned a working, but non-SOLID program and refactored it using SOLID principles. I ended up already knowing about most of the principles, but it was a good demonstration of how to recognize when your code could use the SOLID boost.

Bigger, Stronger, Faster. Making quality .NET applications fast and bug free
I had actually wanted to go to the Ruby for C# developers session, but the guy didn't show. Punk-ass ruby developers, amirite? This was a good presentation, and by an accomplished NCSU grad, Chris Love, on the benefits of things like unit testing and good developer practices.

Building Composite WPF Applications
speaker was kinda boring in his presentation style, but the content was right on and he knew what he was talking about. Basically did a walkthrough from scratch on how to build a WPF application using the Bootstrapper, RegionManager, EventAggregator and Dependency Injection concepts from the PRISM framework.

DataSets: Code less, do more
this guy was impressive. dorkiest looking guy i'd ever seen, but he's another Microsoft MVP and definitely knew his stuff and really gave a very good presentation. I was curious about this session, because DataSets have really fallen out of favor over the last couple years as the ORM offerings from both MS and third parties have really begun to become mature technologies. He made some good points on the benefits of using DataSets, but unless I really need the performance edge, I'll probably stick with LINQtoSQL or SubSonic or nHibernate or something

overall, I didn't learn quite as much as I'd hoped, but that was probably my fault. I mostly stuck to the topics I already know a lot about, in hopes that the speakers would talk about more advanced stuff.

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9/20/2009 10:05:52 PM

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"this guy was impressive. dorkiest looking guy i'd ever seen"

qft

9/20/2009 11:51:42 PM

what is datasets?

ok..i am gonna look up wiki but still would like to know more about it from you people

9/21/2009 6:39:50 PM

http://codecamp.developersguild.org/

Another code camp, this time in Charlotte, has been scheduled for May 15

Some of the sessions offered
.NET Custom Extensions for SQL Reporting Services
Advanced WPF – Build Model-View-ViewModel Apps
Architectural Governance with NDepend
Become an rX Pusher with the Reactive Framework
Building Native iPhone Applications with .NET/C#
C# Ninjitsu
Deciphering the Data Dilemma
Designing and Implementing a Managed AddIn Framework (MAF) Solution
Developing Your Career
Getting started with URL Rewrite
Hello Windows Phone
Integrating Asterisk PBX with .NET
Introduction to BizTalk Server 2009
Introduction to F#
Introduction to IoC/DI/DIP and StructureMap
Introduction to Windows Azure
LINQ Scalability
RESTful Data
Seven Things Every Windows Phone 7 Dev Must Know
Simple Service Layer Abstraction
The ABC of WCF
WCF Service Discovery
Whats new in ASP.NET 4

4/24/2010 7:07:33 AM

Can I has good learning experience if I has no coding experience?

4/24/2010 10:56:23 AM

sure. some sessions are beginner level, some are relatively advanced. at the least, you'll be exposed to the technologies out there, see what they can do, meet some people in the industry

4/24/2010 11:05:22 AM

Just registered. I'm still very much a beginner at this, but I at least have a few years of C#/XNA hobbyist-level programming under my belt. I think I can get a lot out of it. Hoping to attend at least some of the following, depending on the schedule:
Building Native iPhone Applications with .NET/C#
C# Ninjitsu
Deciphering the Data Dilemma
Developing Your Career
Hello Windows Phone
Introduction to F#
Introduction to Windows Azure
Seven Things Every Windows Phone 7 Dev Must Know

4/24/2010 11:36:19 AM

who else is thinking about going to that? anyone wanna carpool? i just don't feel like driving all the way to charlotte if it's just me going, haha

4/25/2010 7:04:10 PM

if sas pays our expenses I'll go

4/26/2010 11:02:22 AM

not exactly related to this event, but if anybody listens to http://dotnetrocks.com/, those guys will be at Duke next week

http://dnrrtp.eventbrite.com/

4/29/2010 11:15:27 PM

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"Building Native iPhone Applications with .NET/C# "

I thought apple broke everything except C++ in v4.0?

Either way this sounds like an awesome conference. Too bad I'm graduating that day

4/30/2010 12:02:17 AM

yeah, i thought the same thing. could be they signed up that speaker before the iphone OS announcement

4/30/2010 9:02:46 AM

I'd be interested in going, but I've got conflicts that weekend. Maybe the next one.

4/30/2010 9:28:31 AM

tomorrow...

5/14/2010 6:59:13 PM

http://codecamp.org/Sessions

it's that time again.

10/31/2011 11:05:39 AM