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1st Chicago Code Camp in the Rear View Mirror

Wow, what a great Code Camp. This past weekend we held the first Chicago Code Camp in northern Chicago. I think we had over 200 people show up, which is not too bad given it was our first event. We had 32 session ranging from .Net to...

Published 06-01-2009 2:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Conference

Chicago Code Camp Session List (99% final)

We have finalized the session list for the Chicago Code Camp (may changes if speakers have to bow out). Below is the sessions that will make an appearance at the camp Speaker Session Title Aaron Erickson Code that Writes Code Aaron Erickson Introduction...

Published 04-30-2009 2:32 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Announcement, Conference

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me...

Published 11-09-2008 4:53 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC, Conference

KaizenConf Wrap Up -- What an Exhausting Learning Experience

Well, that does it for this years KaizenConf . I can honestly say that I had a great time, I met some great people (nice to put faces to twitter handles) and shared some great stories. What is great is that when I setout to make it to this openspace conference...

Published 11-02-2008 6:53 PM by Derik Whittaker

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KaizenConf - Open Communication, Resistance to Change, Going with the Staus quo w/ reference to various team roles

Another session that I sat in on today was "Open communication, Resistance to change, Going with the status quo with reference to the various roles on the team " If I could wrap up the entire session in a phrase it would be the following: When...

Published 11-01-2008 3:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

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Kaizenconf day 1 wrap up

Yesterday was day 1 of this years KaizenConf and it got started off with a bang. I was not able to make it to most of the conferences pre-conference workshop, but I was able to make it to one. Fluent APIs with C# - Chad Myers Chad put together a great...

Published 11-01-2008 6:52 AM by Derik Whittaker

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Iowa Code Camp in the rear view mirror

Well, it is official, the Iowa Code Camp has come and gone. Yesterdays event was awesome. They had about 125-150 people show up for the first ever Code Camp in Iowa. The venue could not have been any nicer and setup any better. There were a total of 5...

Published 05-04-2008 11:31 AM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net Slides/Sample Code

The slides and sample code for the conference can be found here . I would highly recommend that you take a look at 'The Scaling Habits of Asp.Net Applications' as well as 'The Science of a Great UI' Both of these were great.

Published 04-09-2008 1:16 PM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net wrap up

Wow, yesterday was great. Myself and Jordan Martz make the trek up from Chicago land up to Brookfield WI to attend a great .Net developers conference. The conference had a great turnout of about 400 people that listened to 5 great presentation LINQ Internals...

Published 04-06-2008 10:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net (live) -- Essence of Linq

Speaker : Chalie Calvert The fifth and final session was about diving deeper into Linq. This was a great session. He really dove pretty deep into the guts of linq and how it actually worked. He did not cover a vast amount of linq syntax...

Published 04-05-2008 5:38 PM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net (live) - Scaling Habits of ASP.Net

Speaker: Richard Campbell (yea, that Richard . But no Carl :( ) The third session today deals with scaling a ASP.net application. Going from the 'make it work' stage to 'make it scale' stage in our developers and how we as...

Published 04-05-2008 3:04 PM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net (live) -- The Science of a Great UI

Author: Mark Miller (Developer Express, iNeta Speaker) The second session of the day was about great UI's. I thought that this would be how to design great UI's, but no. It really was about how we as developers need to start observing...

Published 04-05-2008 11:11 AM by Derik Whittaker

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Deeper in .Net Live -- Linq internals with VB 9 (oh yea, VB baby)

Author: Scott Wisniewski The first presentation of the day is 'Linq internals with VB 9'. The presenter is a Microsofty that made the trek out from Redmond to visit the midwest. The goal of the presentation is to give a high level...

Published 04-05-2008 9:10 AM by Derik Whittaker

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1st Chicago Code Camp in the Rear View Mirror

Chicago Code Camp Session List (99% final)

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

KaizenConf Wrap Up -- What an Exhausting Learning Experience

KaizenConf - Open Communication, Resistance to Change, Going with the Staus quo w/ reference to various team roles

Kaizenconf day 1 wrap up

Iowa Code Camp in the rear view mirror

Deeper in .Net Slides/Sample Code

Deeper in .Net wrap up

Deeper in .Net (live) -- Essence of Linq

Deeper in .Net (live) - Scaling Habits of ASP.Net

Deeper in .Net (live) -- The Science of a Great UI

Deeper in .Net Live -- Linq internals with VB 9 (oh yea, VB baby)