Category: events

Daily Bits – January 16, 2008

Dr. eX: How Can I Programmatically Add a Database Connection to the Server Explorer ToolWindow with My Add-In?

You Are Creating Bugs in Your Software (via Jason Haley)

Neudesic NuCon 2008 New York and Chicago

Nothin’ But WPF (Training in New York)

What Do You Want to See in the 2nd Edition of Framework Design Guidelines?

Have I Got a Book in Me?

VSX Community Letter for January 2008

TypeMock Snippets for Visual Studio (via Trumpi’s blog)

But… My Brain is Already Full! (via Steve Pietrek)

TDD Is Also an Organizational Process (via Arjan’s World)

NLinq Release Candidate Available on CodePlex

Book Review: Continuous Integration

PowerShell: “Highway to Hell”?

Real Technology Heroes (via Rob Teixeira – TheRuntime.com)

Blog Stats are Confusing – GETs, Views, User-Agents, Readers, Eyeballs (ScottHa)

CSLA .NET 3.5 Jan 15 Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)

 

Book of the Day

 

Philly Code Camp 2008.1 – Links and Info

Here’s a list of sessions I attended and some links and info on each of them.

  • Top Ten Tools Tips and Tricks (Travis LaBorde)
    • Link to tips
  • Designing for Extensibility: Patterns and Practices that Can Make Your Software More Flexible (Mitch Ruebush)

First IASA Philly Chapter Meeting will be at Microsoft Malvern in the first week in February.

  • Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements (Kevin Goff)
  • Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures (Sam Gentile)
  • Spring.NET (Mark Pollack)
    • Spring.NET Home Page
  • Using Refactoring to Hunt Down Code Smells (Todd Snyder)
    • Todd’s Blog on Infragistics.com

Next Philly Code Camp will be in May and will be back at DeVry University in Ft. Washington, PA. It was a really great event. Almost 400 people attended, and the guys did a very respectable job of putting this thing together. I didn’t hear any negative comments from other attendees around me. The only minor issue I saw was that too many people wanted to see Kevin Goff and Mitch Ruebush speak. It was standing room only in those talks. Thanks to Bill Wolff and everyone at Philly.NET!

 

Eagerly Anticipating the First Philly Code Camp of 2008

Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA. There will be 8 tracks, 48 sessions and 400 seats.

This will be the first Philly Code Camp that I will be able to attend. My wife, Stelene, is a nurse and works every-other weekend. Every previous event has fallen on a weekend when she worked, and I was home with our two girls.

I am looking forward to participating in sessions with fantastic speakers like Mitch Ruebush and Sam Gentile, among many others. Sam is a huge part of the Philly developer community, I look forward to meeting him. I’ve seen Mitch speak on a couple of other occasions. First, back in March 2002, the company I worked for was getting us up to speed on .NET and C#, and Mitch was the trainer they brought in to lead a 5-day class. A year later I attended another Microsoft course, this time at Online Consulting in Center City Philly. I was working toward earning my MCT at the time, and had to take a course as part of the process. Mitch was the trainer, and offered several helpful tips during breaks and labs (got some good home theater tips too). He is a really sharp guy, and an engaging speaker.

Feel free to say hello if you see me there next week. I’ll be the geek wearing the black ‘Zappa Plays Zappa‘ t-shirt. I will probably be spending most of my time in sessions within the Architecture track.