Twin Cities Code Camp IV
Yesterday, I was in the Cities at the fourth Twin Cities Code Camp. It really was a fantastic experience, likely the the best one yet (I presented at the first two code camps as well). From the presentations I attended I would say that the quality of the presentations was very high. They easily would rival what you get at a paid conference. I also met a bunch of people I had never seen in person which is really cool.
Some of the Iowa crowd that went up was Javier Lozano, Bryan Sampica and Greg Wilson. There were several other attendees from Bryan’s company as well. The Iowa presenters and attendees have grown significantly since the first one where I was the sole Iowan as far as I know.
Some interesting people I met/saw were D’Arcy Lussier, Neil Iverson (Inetium), Brandy Favilla (New Horizons), Robert Boedigheimer, Chris Williams (Magenic), Aaron Erickson (Magenic), Kent Tegels (DevelopMentor), Jeff Ferguson, Chris Johnson, Saviz Artang, John Thurow, Kirstin (Magenic), Nicole and Kristen (New Horizons) and Justin Chase.
My favorite session was Neil Iverson’s PowerShell for Developers. It was a fast paced live demo that kept incrementally building. Rarely have I been so engaged in a session. D’Arcy’s MVC vs ASP.Net talk was also really interesting. We only had about 6 people in the session, so we went around the room and said where we were coming from in our ASP.Net development experience. Then D’Arcy showed us how he typically structures his webforms applications, and we peppered him with questions. I learned a lot from the session.
My talk was the second of the day in the large seminar room so we actually had about 50 people in the session. One thing that was cool was that D’Arcy Lussier did an intro talk right before mine, so I got to build off of what he did in the session before. Mine seemed to go pretty well. There were a lot of questions and interest in what MVC brings to web development in the Microsoft space.
Jason Bock did a great job again bringing this all together. It’s a lot of work coordinating an event like this.
If you liked what you got at the Twin Cities Code Camp you’ll definitely want to check out the Iowa Code Camp. We’ll be a little bit smaller, but have some top notch presenters, a great facility and will have great prizes as well. The registration is right on the home page and is as simple as it gets.
Chris,
I was one of the attendees of “More Advanced ASP.Net MVC” session last Saturday and was wondering if materials from your presentation are available for download (slides / source code) for review while it’s fresh in memory.
Thanks a lot!
Andrey
Andrey
April 7, 2008 at 8:11 am
@Andrey, I’ll have them up on my blog tonight.
Chris Sutton
April 7, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thank you for the feedback! As a presenter, I can tell you that we all had a lot of fun at this great event.
Jeff Ferguson
April 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm