Spring is almost here; so is Twin Cities Code Camp : Spring 2007

Mr. Bock (http://www.jasonbock.net) is organizing the 2^nd Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com/TCCC/Spring2007/Sessions.aspx) on April 28th, 2007.

I’m very excited to do a session with Dan (check out his feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/humanstuff). We’re going to tackle the newly released (December 2006) Web Service Software Factory for WCF put out by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group.

The 1^st code camp was a great time; don’t miss this one! The .Net folks got along with the Ruby folks who got along with the Java folks - it was one big geek-love-fest (no, no, nothing dirty) :) Please register here:

Current sessions (75 minutes) and Chalk Talks (30 minutes) include:

Sessions
-3D Construction Basics in WPF - Mike Hodnick
-CPU and Game Emulation Design - David Pinch
-Delegation and Kerberos in the Enterprise - David Baldauff
-Developing for Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005 - Cory Smith
-Extending Microsoft Office 2007 as a Platform - Scott Yokiel
-If Darwin Could Write Code - Jake Good
-Inside the WCF Web Service Software Factory - Jeff Knutson and Dan Mork
-An Introduction to LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Adam Grocholski
-An Introduction to PowerShell - Neil Iversen
-There Must be Fifty Ways to Unit Test your Software - Jon Stonecash
-What Ruby on Rails can Teach .NET Developers - Dan Mork and John Howes

Chalk Talks
-Beyond Orcas - Where is .NET Going? - Jason Bock
-SSIS Tips and Tricks - David Baldauff
-Web Part Development - Neil Iversen

jk

Code Camp 2006 - What a great day

The inaugural Twin Cities Code Camp was yesterday at New Horizons of Minnesota in Edina, MN.  I don't have the exact stats, but I heard there about 140 attended!

The facilities were first rate, Magenic provided plenty of pizza and soda for lunch, and the camaraderie was excellent.  I saw .Net people talking to Ruby people talking to Java people; it really warmed the heart :)

I attended the following sessions:

• Neil Iversen's SharePoint as a Development Platform
  
• Jason Bock's State of Languages in the CLR
  
• Robert Boedigheimer's Utilizing .NET Cryptography
  
• Andy Morrison's Building Reusable Business Processes in BizTalk
  
• (my session) Securing Web Serivces in WCF
  
• Scot Yokiel's Intro to WCF

Being a security enthusiast, Robert's session was one of my favorites. It distilled the essence of hashing and crypto into very tidy, bite-sized pieces to digest. Grab the slides/code and check it out. Robert has a really nice demo on how to tamperproof querystrings, which Schwans.com has implemented.

The content was first rate, I got to meet a lot of people, see a lot of old friends, learned a lot (technical and about presenting) and the post-event speaker party was good clean fun as well.

Thanks again to Jason Bock for getting this started.  Thanks to all of you who attended, presented and sponsored food/prizes.  I'm looking forward to the next one (April 2007???)!

jk

Back from darkness + CODE CAMP IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blogging has been on the backburner for a while due to project deadlines at my current client. After AJAXifying a couple of pages, making them IE and FireFox compatible and fixing some JSON, it looks like the project is sitting in good shape, so I'll rip out a few blog posts again. :)

As Mr. Bock points out, Twin Cities Code Camp is coming up in less than 2 weeks (11/11/2006, yes that is a Saturday but come on out and build the community and/or learn something!). If building community or learning (voice of Austin Powers here) "aren't your bag baby" (back to my voice, sorry), you can at least come out and win some fabulous prizes donated by some very generous contributors.

jk

Twin Cities Code Camp - Nov 11, 2006

The inaugural Twin Cities Code Camp will be held Nov 11, 2006. Check out the sessions here.

As of this post, 3 other Magenicons will be presenting (Jason Bock, Michael Dunn and Rocky Lhotka). I will be doing a session on using the security features of Indigo Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Best of all, it's FREE!!!!!! Hope to see y'all there!

jk

Twin Cities Code Camp

The Twin Cities Code Camp will be Nov 11, 2006. Check out the sessions here.

I will be presenting a session on using the security features of WCF.

come one, come all!

jk