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
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