Come join us this Saturday, March 29, 2008 at the Strayer University Campus in Woodbridge, VA from 9a - 5p for the first NoVa CodeCamp South.
What is CodeCamp?
According to the CodeCamp Manifesto it is:
- By and For the Developer Community - Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.
- Always Free - Code Camps are always free for attendees.
- Community Developed Material - The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.
- No Fluff – only Code - Code Camps are about showing the code. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.
- Community Ownership - The most important element of the Code Camp is always the developer community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.
- Never occur during work hours - We need to understand that many times people can’t leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the Code Camp is that they always occur on weekends.
Who's speaking?
We have a lot of great local talent speaking at this CodeCamp. The list below represents what the line up is as of this writing (I've had a couple cancellations in the past, the most up to date list is always here: Speakers)
- Steve Andrews
- Chad Boyd
- Antonio Chagoury
- Jonathan Cogley
- Steve Fibich
- Jay Flowers
- Greg Galipeau
- Quentin Gilbert
- Hal Hayes
- Frank LaVigne
- Sahil Malik
- John Morales
- Brian Noyes
- Geoff Snowman
- Portman Wills
What are they talking about?
The current list of sessions looks like this (the most up to date version of this list is always here: Sessions)
- Portman Wills - Building Facebook applications with .NET
- John Morales - Ajaxify your webpages using jQuery
- Chad Boyd - SQL Server 2008 (Overview or specific topics)
- Brian Noyes - WPF Databinding
- Jonathan Cogley - Refactoring in C# - Bad code to better code
- Jay Flowers - Test Driven Development
- Sahil Malik - Writing WF's in MOSS
- Antonio Chagoury - Developing Dot Net Nuke (DNN) Modules
- Hal Hayes - SQLCLR; Writing .NET code inside SQL Server 2005
- Jonathan Cogley - Web Application Testing In Watin
- Greg Galipeau - Introducing .Net 3.5 “Extensions” ADO.Net DataServices (code name “Astoria”)
- Hal Hayes - SSIS; Beginners Tutorial
- Brian Noyes - Developing Service Oriented Workflows
- Frank LaVigne - Silverlight
- Steve Fibich - SSIS Event Handling
- Chad Boyd - Performance Tuning and Optimization
- Quentin Gilbert - Can .NETers do Agile Development?
- Geoff Snowman - Storing Geographical Data in SQL Server 2008
Where are all the details?
Right here:
- Register here, so we know we have enough pizza.
- Directions (Google Map). Our classrooms and sign in will be at the entrance directly across from WaWa. It's best, on Caton to just make a U-Turn and enter the parking lot on Caton. We'll have signs at the event if you get turned around.
- NoVaCodeCamp.org is the place for track information and ultimately session downloads, things like:
Updated information will be available at: NoVaCodeCamp.org and on my blog (rss feed)