Philly.Net Code Camp was great.  We had over 400 people attend and the feedback is very good.

I had a great time with my presentation "Make the Switch to LINQ - Working with data will never be the same".  Thanks to everyone who joined me.  It was pretty crowded.  Thanks to those of you who stood up or sat on the floor.  I know that I covered a lot of information in my session.  I hope I didn't go to fast.  I promised that I'd have my Code Camp presentation up on my blog by today.  I'm running a little behind schedule.  Update:  here it is!  On schedule, even if it is 10:30 at night!

I've included a db create script, all of my source code, and the slides.  I have tried to add more comments to the code so it makes sense.  At the end I was pretty rushed and didn't explain all of the samples but I hope they speak for themselves.

If you have any questions, just ask... you can contact through the link on my blog.  I've also included my address in a ReadMe.txt doc in the zip file.

LINQ Demo.zip (900.4 KB)

Now, make the switch to LINQ!

The big news this week is that Code Camp (Oct 11, 2008) registration is now open!  In the past we have filled up fast so if you plan to come, register now.  This year's session list is even more diverse than ever since we now have tracks for IT and Infrastructure, in addition to our usual ASP.net, SQL Server, Sharepoint, Alt.Net and more.

We've got great partners lined up too.  Thanks as always to them for their support.

Platinum:  DeVry University, Microsoft

Gold: Cigna, HostMySite, IDP, RJB, Software Logic

Silver: Infragistics

Plus, as usual we'll have a bunch of prizes from lots of other vendors!

Lastly, don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=137867

See you at Code Camp!

I'll try to keep the news about Code Camp coming on a regular basis.  Here are some things that may be of interest:

We are planning 10 Tracks with two new topics:  IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Management.  Yes, we have expanded to include IT topics now!

Here is the list of tracks, of course subject to change:

• Alt.NET
• SharePoint
• Architecture
• SQL
• Business Intelligence
• Toolbox
• Framework
• IT Infrastructure
• MIX (Web)
• Enterprise Management

We've got a few Partners lined up already.  I can't urge our members enough to check out these companies.  Without them Code Camp would not be possible.  Here's the breakdown so far:

Platinum:  DeVry and Microsoft

Gold: Software Logic and RGB Technical Consulting

Silver: Infragistics 

In addition some great companies have stepped up to send us prizes.  I'll write about that soon!

If you are interested in helping out with Code Camp, please let me know.  We always need volunteers, in advance and on the big day.  If you've been there before you know how much work goes into an event like this.

Time flies, so here comes another Philly.Net Code Camp.  Back at our favorite venue - DeVry U in Fort Washington, PA.

Once again we'll have about 50 sessions.  In addition to the Developer and SQL stuff, this time we are including sessions for the IT guys (sorry... and gals) too with an Infrastructure track.  Bill will be announcing a call for speakers soon so get your topics ready if you want to present.

As usual, I'm heading up the quest for Partners.  If you are interested in contributing towards Code Camp, please let me know.  It's a great way to reach the best Developers, DBAs and IT Pros in the Philadelphia area. 

Stay tuned for more information...

Philly.Net is hosting yet another Code Camp in May.  Thanks to DeVry University in Fort Washington, we'll be back at their excellent facility.  People really enjoyed the last one we had there in January.

So what's going on for Code Camp now?

Steve is organizing the speaker/session list.  Bill sent out the "call for speakers" a while ago and the track leads are working with Steve to line it all up.  We'll have 40 sessions this time.  We could easily do 50 again, but we all felt the day was a little long in January so we dropped a session.  But we'll still have the variety of tracks including asp.net, SQL Server, Alt.Net, and more.

As usual, I'm working with the Partners.  We are very fortunate again that a great group of companies have stepped up to help.

Our Platinum Partners:

DeVry University	Microsoft

Our Gold Partners:

HostMySite	Micro Endeavors
Perficient	RDA

Our Silver Partners:

Neudesic	Ted Pattison Group
Telerik

Want to know about what prizes we'll be giving out at the end of the day?  I'll post that soon!

Code Camp 2008.1 on January 12, 2008 was, in my opinion, the best Code Camp Philly.Net has ever had. This is supported by the comments of many of our attendees. We are very grateful to DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA for hosting this event. Their top-notch facility really made the day special for the crowd of around 350 people. Not only did DeVry generously allow us to use their campus for Code Camp, but they had staff on hand to help out and make the day great. It was really nice working with them.  Also a special thanks to all of the Philly.Net members who helped out setting up Code Camp! Too long a blog post?  Click to read about Partners, Prizes, Sessions, Feedback  Our Partners:  Code Camp is only possible thanks to our many partners. Special thanks to our local Microsoft Developer Evangelist , Dani Diaz, for year round support. And we definitely appreciate the support of our other Partners: ComponentOne, Infragistics, Neudesic, RDA, RedGate, CodeBreeze, Spherion and Solid Quality Mentors. It was great working with them all to make this such a successful event.  It was especially fun meeting some of our partners that were on hand for Code Camp.  If you enjoyed Code Camp, I hope you’ll support all our Partners. Click on their logos for more information.                         Prizes:  I’d also like to thank our Prize Contributors. While we all attend Code Camp for the great sessions, everyone loves the prizes and giveaways that our partners provide.  Of course, the XBOX-360 from Red-Gate was a big hit. Plus we gave away a ton of other prizes including books and software.  We've continued our tradition of spreading out the prizes throughout the day.  Each speaker gets a bag of stuff including a book, a shirt, and a water bottle to give away during each session.

Platinum Partners   Gold Partners     Silver Partners

Company Prizes Provided Addison Wesley/Sams Lots of Books Apress Lots of Books ASP.Net Pro Magazine A copy for everyone Code magazine A copy for everyone CodeSmith CodeSmith Licenses ComponentArt WebUI Licenses ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Licenses Dundas Dundas Licenses JetBrains ReSharper Licenses O'reilly Lots of Books Microsoft Lots of Software Red Gate Software plus an XBOX 360 SQL Server Magazine A discount subscription offer SteelBlue Solutions CodeBreeze Wrox Lots of Books Ndepend Software

Sessions:

We had an unprecedented 50 sessions at Code Camp!  That included a wide variety of presentation topics split into 8  tracks: Alt.Net, BI, Database, Toolbox, Architecture, Collaboration, Frameworks, and UI.  With presenters with names from Andrews to Ziss presenting a huge variety of topics including:  ASP.Net, Silverlight, Databinding, LINQ, TDD, AJAX, SQL Server, MVC, Katmai, Spring.Net, BizTalk, WCF, IIS 7, Visual Studio, Powershell, Sharepoint, Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Dependency Injection, Reporting Services, T-SQL, Mobile, InfoPath, SubSonic, Exception Handling and more. 

For a full list of presentations, check out this list.

It would have been hard to gather this amount of speakers with the help of several other groups in our area: 

PhillyAlt.Net

Philadelphia Area Office Geeks

Philadelphia SQL Server Users’ Group

Northern Delaware .Net User Group

Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group

Feedback:

I'd like to share some of the feedback that we got from Code Camp.  We got high marks and praises from most of our guests  I've included a very small sample below.  In addition, some people pointed out a few areas for improvement.  I tend to agree with a lot of them.  This was a great event and we'll get it even better next time.

*Thanks to Melanie Wright from DeVry and our own Mark Magliocco for providing the photos.

We had a great Code Camp on Jan 12.  I've got a longer blog post planned to summarize the event.  I'm gonna work on that next.  But I promised Marc that I'd post his slides from his presentation "Building ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web Sites using LINQ for SQL".  And to be fair, he sent me this stuff on Jan 14 and I'm finally posting it today.  Sorry to those of you who were waiting for it.  I sat in on this presentation and it was a lot of fun and full of content.  Thanks Marc!

He was kind enough to create two versions of the slides:

Slide Deck for Power Point 2003 (.ppt)

Slide Deck for Power Point 2007 (.pptx)

Updated on12/19.  Infragistics has joined us as a Gold Partner

Wow, Code Camp 2008.1 is coming up fast.  It seems like we move from planning one Code Camp right into planning the next one.  We are busy lining up sponsors and speakers and I can report that both efforts are going very well.

First, a sponsors update.  Scroll down if you want to see the sessions that are planned.

We now have several levels of sponsorship.  Companies can contribute money to Philly.Net so we can pay for the expenses of running a Code Camp.  In addition, companies provide prizes and swag, and everyone likes that! Of course, this list is changing all the time.   All of these companies have been very generous in their support of Philly.Net.  If you get some time, check out their web sites/products. 

Announcement: The official email hasn't gone out yet but I'll let the cat out of the bag... Code Camp registration is now open on the Philly.Net site!

Platinum Partners:

Thanks to DeVry in Fort Washington, PA.  They'll be hosting our Code Camp.	We can always count on Microsoft's support throughout the year.

Gold Partners:

Silver Partners:

Other Partners:

Solid Quality Mentors

Other companies have pitched in to provide prizes for Code Camp.  Here's a list of who's signed up to help, so far:

Presentations:

We all come to Code Camp for the presentations.  Here is a list of some of the presentations that you'll get at Code Camp. This list is NOT complete and is subject to change, of course.   Keep an eye on the Code Camp site for the latest information.

Alt.NET
Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion
David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design
Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor
Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps 
Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action:  The Evolution of TDD
Don Demsak - Design Patterns

Architecture
Mitch Ruebush -
Harish Bidad - BizTalk R2 BAM
Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models
Tim Dodd - IIS 7
Sam Gentile - ESB/SOA

Business Intelligence
Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications
Dan Hartshorn - Performance Point
Mark Scott -
Andy Leonard -

User Experience
Andy Schwam - ASP.NET Custom Controls
Jonathan Newell - Databinding ASP.NET
Bill Wolff - Silverlight 2.0 with Expression and Visual Studio 2008
John Juback - Real World Experiences with Silverlight
Eric Pascarello - Investigating JavaScript and Ajax Security
Susan Lennon - Using SharePoint Designer to build a dashboard-type view of lists

Frameworks
Marc Ziss -
Jim Bonnie - SubSonic as a Data Access layer for DotNetNuke
Rachel Appel - Exception Handling & Management Strategies
Kevin Goff - Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements

Collaboration
David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…
Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint
Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files
Database
Sharon Dooley -
Ed Pochinski -
Joshua Lynn - SQL Server 2008 New feature: Change Data Capture
Reed Sutton -
Hilary Cotter -
Chuck Urwiler -
Toolbox
Mark Magliocco - FaceBook Developer Toolkit in .NET
Judy Calla - Visual Studio 2005
Travis LaBorde -
Rob Keiser - Powershell 2.0
Todd Snyder - Using Refactoring to hunt down code smells
Steve Andrews - Visual Studio 2008 Tools and Add-Ins

Wow, Code Camp 2008.1 is coming up fast.  It seems like we move from planning one Code Camp right into planning the next one.  We are busy lining up sponsors and speakers and I can report that both efforts are going very well.

First, a sponsors update.  Scroll down if you want to see the sessions that are planned.

We now have several levels of sponsorship.  Companies can contribute money to Philly.Net so we can pay for the expenses of running a Code Camp.  In addition, companies provide prizes and swag, and everyone likes that! Of course, this list is changing all the time.   All of these companies have been very generous in their support of Philly.Net.  If you get some time, check out their web sites/products. 

Announcement: The official email hasn't gone out yet but I'll let the cat out of the bag... Code Camp registration is now open on the Philly.Net site!

Platinum Partners:

Thanks to DeVry in Fort Washington, PA.  They'll be hosting our Code Camp.	We can always count on Microsoft's support throughout the year.

Gold Partners:

Silver Partners:

Other Partners:

Solid Quality Mentors

Other companies have pitched in to provide prizes for Code Camp.  Here's a list of who's signed up to help, so far:

Presentations:

We all come to Code Camp for the presentations.  Here is a list of some of the presentations that you'll get at Code Camp. This list is NOT complete and is subject to change, of course.   Keep an eye on the Code Camp site for the latest information.

Alt.NET
Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion
David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design
Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor
Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps 
Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action:  The Evolution of TDD
Don Demsak - Design Patterns

Architecture
Mitch Ruebush -
Harish Bidad - BizTalk R2 BAM
Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models
Tim Dodd - IIS 7
Sam Gentile - ESB/SOA

Business Intelligence
Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications
Dan Hartshorn - Performance Point
Mark Scott -
Andy Leonard -

User Experience
Andy Schwam - ASP.NET Custom Controls
Jonathan Newell - Databinding ASP.NET
Bill Wolff - Silverlight 2.0 with Expression and Visual Studio 2008
John Juback - Real World Experiences with Silverlight
Eric Pascarello - Investigating JavaScript and Ajax Security
Susan Lennon - Using SharePoint Designer to build a dashboard-type view of lists

Frameworks
Marc Ziss -
Jim Bonnie - SubSonic as a Data Access layer for DotNetNuke
Rachel Appel - Exception Handling & Management Strategies
Kevin Goff - Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements

Collaboration
David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…
Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint
Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files
Database
Sharon Dooley -
Ed Pochinski -
Joshua Lynn - SQL Server 2008 New feature: Change Data Capture
Reed Sutton -
Hilary Cotter -
Chuck Urwiler -
Toolbox
Mark Magliocco - FaceBook Developer Toolkit in .NET
Judy Calla - Visual Studio 2005
Travis LaBorde -
Rob Keiser - Powershell 2.0
Todd Snyder - Using Refactoring to hunt down code smells
Steve Andrews - Visual Studio 2008 Tools and Add-Ins

Don't forget that Code Camp is Saturday, January 12 at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA.  I'm still working on prizes and contributions.  We've got some great companies pitching in to help already:

GOLD Level Contributors:
ComponentOne
Neudesic
RDA
Neudesic
Red Gate

SILVER Level Contributors:
SteelBlue Solutions

Inaddition, other companies have already promised to provide swag/prizes including:

• ComponentArt
• Dundas
• AddisonWesley/Sams
• Wrox

We are starting to line up speakers.  I think we already have around 30 presentation set.  If you are interested in Contributing or Speaking, please let us know.

I'm happy to announce that RDA has signed on as a Gold Level Contributor for Code Camp 2008.1.  I don't think the Code Camp page is up on the Philly.Net site yet.  Meanwhile, you can get some details in this post.

I'm currently working on the details with some other companies and I'll have more information coming out soon.

Don't forget, we are still looking for Sponsors and Speakers!

I had a great time at the Central Penn .Net's Code Camp.  Judy and her team put together a great event.  I did my presentation on Creating Custom Server Controls.  The crowd out there was great.  They seemed really enthusiastic.  If you are interested in my code sample, you can get the VS 2005 solution file here (zipped).

We've scheduled our next Code Camp for January 12, 2008.  This time we're having it at DeVry University so we have room for many more people.  This could be Philly.Net's biggest and best code camp ever!  I've started working on contributors and prizes and Bill and Steve are rounding up the speakers.  We're planning to have 8 tracks running!  If you are interested in speaking, let us know and we'll put you on the schedule.  We'll have .Net, ASP.Net, SQL, Office, Sharepoint, Alt.Net and more.

I am proud to announce that we have our first Silver Level Contributor lined up.  Thanks to SteelBlue Solutions.  Miguel Castro, a very popular speaker (and Microsoft MVP) makes a cool code generator named CodeBreeze...check it out.  Other companies lining up to contribute and I'll have more information soon.  Let me know if you are interested in Contributing money or prizes.

Other Events:

Silverlight Firestarter:  Dani Diaz is putting together a Microsoft event on December 15th.  It's a full day of designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight. And if you have a lot of energy, stick around because at 5:30PM they are having an XBOX party!  Register here.

VS 2008 Install Fest:  Sorry for the late announcement, this one is Tomorrow (Dec. 4).  Come to the Microsoft Malvern office and install a copy of VS 2008.  If you do, you'll get a free license.  Pretty sweet.  But you've got to be registered.

If you live in Central Maryland, you should check out CMAP's Code Camp on October 13, 2007

I know Chris has been working hard to put this together.  I'm sure it will be a great event.

Well, we did it again.  Thanks to the hard work of many people, Philly.Net's Code Camp 2007.2 was a terrific event.  I've already gotten some great feedback from many people about the day.  If you have any comments to add, please email me or comment here on this post.  We take the comments seriously.  Last time it was suggested to afternoon snacks and drinks, we had that this time.  Last time the day was a little too long, this time we shortened it.  Last time people wanted coffee in the morning, this time we provided it.  Our presenters did a great job, it was evident in the evaluations that we collected.  Thanks to everyone who filled those out, the presenters look forward to your comments.

I think my presentation went very well and I've gotten some good feedback from people.  I had a lot of fun presenting.  If you are looking for my code samples, you can find them here.  Also, I'm in the process of putting together a summary/wrap up email.  In that email, I'll include information about Code Camp including links to all of the presenters, just in case you lost their information.

I've got some speaking engagements coming up.  It almost sounds like an official tour is planned.

Presentation Topic: Developing Custom Controls for ASP.Net

Description:  In this demo I'll show you how to get started creating your own custom server controls for asp.net.  I'll show how to create controls, expose public properties to make them easier for other developers to implement, and handle events from the control.  We'll  create a ControlDesigner so Visual Studio can render the control at design time.  I'll even build some extra features into the control using Ajax.

Where:

• Saturday, September 15 2007 at Philly.Net (Code Camp)
• Monday, October 15 at Lehigh Valley.Net
• Thursday, October 25 at the Northern Delaware .Net User Group
• Saturday, December 1 at the Central Penn .Net Users Group (Code Camp)

I'm really excited to get out to some of these other groups for these presentations.  If you live near any of these groups, check them out.  They've all got regular, monthly meetings with great .Net content.  I've also got calls in to Madison Square Garden, LA Coliseum, Wembley Stadium and others.  But I haven't heard back from them yet.

Please, no brown M&M's.

Update:  When I get some time I'll be writing the demo out as a tutorial blog post.  In the mean time, if you are interested in the source code for this demo, here it is:

ControlsDemo.zip (1.05 MB)

Code Camp is just 10 days away!  The Philly.Net leadership has been working hard on all of the details.  We had a meeting last night at Rob's house.  Attendees included Bill Wolff, Rob Keiser, myself, Marc Ziss, Marc Magliocco, David Mann, and Dani Diaz.  Here are some of the items discussed about Code Camp and Philly.Net in general:

• We may have to move Pub Night.  Keep an eye out for more information soon.  We didn't realize that it was scheduled on Rosh Hashanah.  We are looking at Tuesday night instead.
• We (loosely) planned out the food for Code Camp.  We'll have breakfast (bagels or muffins) with coffee and juice.  For lunch we'll have big hoagies like last time.  Plus we'll have snacks throughout the day including water and soda.
• This time we are going to try and stagger the lunch schedule, so don't panic when you see the session schedule.  Hopefully we'll have shorter lines to get food.
• Bill is going to try and send out a confirmation email to registered attendees soon.
• David Mann is starting up a new group for developers using Microsoft Office, VSTO, etc.  I'll post more when the details come out.
• Several of us are starting a new .net user group in northern Delaware.  Check out this web site for more info.  I'll be speaking there October 25th.  Please spread the word about this new group.
• Check out the ReMix 07 conference.  If you missed Mix07 last spring, here's your chance to get caught up on ASP.Net, Silverlight, AJAX and more.
• Check out our future meeting schedule on the web site.  You'll see that we don't have many speakers or sponsors lined up for future meetings.  Here is your change to do presentation or be a sponsor.
• Rob's new nickname is Bubba.  You'll have to ask.

See you at Code Camp!  Don't forget, you can check out the swag/prizes here.

Philly.Net is proud to announce our newest Gold Level Contributor, Neudesic.  Our Gold Contributors make it possible for us to host the event and provide food and drinks throughout the day.

In addition, we've added SQL Server Magazine as our latest Swag contributor.  They are graciously providing a subscription to the magazine for each attendee.  You'll have to fill out the form on the day of the event though - don't forget!

We've got lots of other companies supporting us.  Check out the entire list.

Check out the Philly.Net site for more information.  And don't forget that pub night is Wednesday, Sept 12.

Sorry, if you haven't registered already for the Sept 15 2007 Code Camp you are out of luck.  Hopefully we'll see you at the next Code Camp, we are planning one for the winter.

If you are attending, check out the Philly.Net site to see a list of presentations.  We've got a nice variety of presenters and presentation topics.  If you are interested in the free stuff you can get at Code Camp, check out this post.

It's official.  You can now register for Philly.Net Code Camp 2007.2.

On Sept. 15, 2007 we'll have 25 sessions on .Net related topics.  Check out the web site for more information including a preliminary list of topics and presenters.

Also, check out this blog post for more information on our generous corporate contributors and the prizes that we'll have.

Registration opened last night but remember, last time it filled up in less then a day!  Register now, don't get shut out.

(Updated Sept. 5)

Philly.Net is proud to present Code Camp 2007.2 on September 15. 2007 along with our Gold Partners:

Our partner organizations for this event are PhillySharePoint and PSSUG.

Swag/Prize contributors:

Here is a preliminary list of companies that are helping us with Code Camp:

Stay tuned for more information...

* While supplies last

Philly.Net is proud to present Code Camp 2007.2 on September 15. 2007

Our partners for this event are PhillySharePoint and PSSUG.

Here is an update on some of the contributions and swag we're getting for Code Camp:

Gold Level:

We are really excited to have two well known companies helping out.

Thanks to their contributions, we'll have great food to eat and excellent prizes!

Swag/Prize contributors:

Here is a preliminary list of companies that are helping us with Code Camp:

As things are finalized, I'll post specific information about the cool prizes we'll be giving out!

While the official announcement hasn't gone out yet, you probably know that Philly.Net is presenting Code Camp 2007.2 on Sept 15.

Swag and Contributions -- I've already started a campaign reaching out to vendors for contributors for swag, not to mention breakfast and lunch.  Code camp is a free event and we rely on the generous donations to pay for our expenses.  If you have any interest in helping out in this way, please contact me.  And if you have any ideas for swag that you'd like to see at Code Camp, please let me know.

Presenters -- Bill hasn't sent out the official call for speakers yet, that will come soon.  But now is a good time to think about what kind of presentation you might do.  We'll need about 25 presentation for Code Camp.

Newsletter -- I just got an email from Mark M regarding starting the newsletter.  It looks like he is trying to get this off the ground.  It will be awesome to have an official Philly.Net newsletter.  Thanks Mark!

See you at the next meeting on August 22.

The reviews are in… Philly.Net Code Camp 2007.1 was a huge success!

Thanks to the hard work of an excellent group of presenters, Philly.Net hosted a great Code Camp on Saturday, May 19th.  Did you attend a session and want more information?  Did you miss Code Camp and want to find out more about it?  Included here is a bunch of information to help you out.  Read on to see Philly.Net Code Camp feedback, presenter info (blog, web and email addresses) and prize contributor information.

Thanks to Bill Wolff for organizing the event and running Philly.Net all year round, and everyone else who worked hard to make the day great.

-Andy "The Swagman" Schwam

Your Feedback:

Here are some of the general comments from Saturday.  I know that many of the presenters look forward to seeing what you write.  They love the compliments and use your suggestions to enhance their future presentations.  Remember that the presenters don’t get paid and put a lot of time into getting ready for these sessions.  As one of the organizers, I like to see the comments so we know if we are on the right track.  We also get tips for improvement.  Here are some of the general comments about Code Camp. 

“Lots of good info in a short time. Helps me flatten out the learning curve.”

“I really appreciate you conducting this camp with no cost to attendees”

“No Coffee”

“Please have more code camps. It’s excellent and only way to keep up with technology for me”

“Very well organized session…thanks for everything…Appreciate much for all the organizers, sponsors and speakers”

“Have evaluations forms ready before fist session”

“ It is very beneficial to the group + it would be difficult to complain about a no-cost event”

“ I really feel more motivated to go deeper into Microsoft technologies. See you in the next code camp”

“I found all session extremely valuable”

“First time in code camp and like the way it’s conducted. Liked the flexible way of attending various session as I like. Thanks for material and food”

“The material was very informative and the speakers were entertaining. You could really tell that they have used these technologies in the real world”

“Learned a lot of new stuff…will apply to the work I do”

“This event was everything that I had hoped for. A good introduction to .Net 3.0”

Links for presenters, etc:

If you need some more information about one of the sessions you attended, hopefully one of the links or email addresses below will help.  By the way, to prevent spam, I modified the email addresses.  I'm sure you can figure out the translation!

Jean Barmash:
Here is the address for my blog – I already posted the slides for my talks there - http://home.infusionblogs.com/jbarmash/default.aspx
My company’s website is www.infusion.com.

Russ Basiura:
Russ Basiura  is the president of the Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group (http://www.PhillySharePoint.org).  He specializes in helping companies in the Philadelphia area deploy SharePoint.  If you have questions about SharePoint or would like to discuss a specific project, he can be reached at russ AT rjbtech DOT com or call 215-699-2780 x101.  His website is http://www.SharePointSpecialists.com.

Sam Batterman:
email:  samb AT microsoft DOT com
blog: http://sambbiblog.spaces.live.com

Sharon Dooley:
For more information, contact Sharon at:  sharond AT voicenet DOT com.

Sam Gentile:
http://codebetter.com/blogs/sam.gentile (blog)
http://samgentile.com (home)
managedcode44 AT hotmail DOT com (email)

Kevin Goff:
www.commongroundsolutions.net   (main site)
www.TheBakersDozen.net   (blog)
kgoff AT commongroundsolutions DOT net  (email)

Travis Laborde:
http://www.datadeluxe.com/ - Under "News" you can see links to the talks I've done along with links to every item covered in the talks.
http://clipmarks.com/clipper/travislaborde/ - My Clipmarks blog.  To see new stuff as I post it of course.  Some items came up in class that I said I'd blog about, and this is where they'd see it.

David Laribee:
http://laribee.com/blog/ (Blog)
laribee AT gmail DOT com (Email)

Mark Magliocco:
http://www.markm.com/markm/code_camp_2007_0519/Mark_magliocco_2007_code_camp_presentation.htm
http://www.markm.com/markm/code_camp_2007_0519/RSS_BASICS.pdf

Blog: www.markm.com

RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) is on of the hottest areas of web 2.0.  When the Blogosphere emerged, RSS feeds really took off.  It is a must know technology, and an essential element of your web applications as well as search engine marketing. We will review the basics, what are the elements and tags.

If your name/information isn't listed here, please send it to me, I'll be sure to update the copy of this information on my blog.

Code Camp Contributors:

I’d like to thank all of the companies that contributed prizes.  Yes, Code Camp is completely free.  So you may be wondering, who paid for breakfast, lunch, and all of the prizes?  Many companies stepped up and supported this event.  I hope you will check out their websites and give their products a try! Thanks to the generosity of these companies, we had enough "swag" to have give-aways during every session!

If you are registered for Philly.Net Code Camp 2007.1 for this Saturday you should have received an email from Bill Wolff.  In that email is a link to a session survey.  Please make sure you complete the survey.  The purpose is so Bill can assign rooms to the presenters.  Since some rooms are smaller than others, this survey will help us get an idea of which will be the most crowded.  Don't worry, if you change your mind you can still attend any session.  This is just to get an idea of session attendance.

Code Camp is almost here...May 19th and I am getting pretty excited.  Those of you who were lucky enough to register before we filled up have a great day ahead.  Here is an updated list of the swag we've got to give away.  There will be something for every attendee!  As you can expect, we'll have a raffle at the end of the day with some great "big ticket" items.  But wait, there's more!  We've got so much stuff we will have prizes given out during every session!  So in addition to the great presentations, there will be many chances for you to win something very cool.  Of course, check out the Philly.Net site for the full days schedule.

We'll be giving away 13 software licenses, A Zune, books, T-shirts and lots of other cool stuff!  You'll have lots of chances to win.  Of course, with great topics and content all day for free, everyone is a winner!

Here is the latest list of stuff:  (I hope I didn't miss anything)