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DevLink 2009 has come and gone. Thanks to the hard work of John Kellar and crew it was once again awesome. John and DevLink were the inspiration for CodeStock , and this year managing a 3 Day event with 730+ attendees proved he’s still the master and I’m the padawan apprentice (whether I’m...
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I just finished creating a project on CodePlex for the Code Camp Room Planner , a little app I wrote to help me plan the schedule at CodeStock 2009. I’ve also created some basic documentation . Background: CodeStock is involving attendees in the planning of the conference. We started out with attendees...
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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 TDD to Ruby and beyond. I personally sat though...
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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 to F# Chris McAvoy Python Cory Miller Introduction...
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CodeStock 2009 is quickly approaching, and I wanted to let you know some of the things we have in store for this years event. We’ve partnered again with RecruitWise to bring you a full, two day conference with room for 50+ sessions, an expanded Open Spaces conference, and are adding a few panel...
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The CodeStock 2009 Call for Speakers is open, details at CodeStock.org To make this year’s event bigger and better we’ve expanded the conference to a two-day event, June 26 and 27, 2009 in Knoxville, TN. Day one will be comprised of extended deep dive and back-to-basics sessions followed by day...
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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, please do. Info on the 2 sessions TriNug - Taking...
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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 I had a ton of questions. I walk away from...
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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 your team feels empowerment and has passion they...
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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 workshop about how to leverage the C# language to...
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One thing I'm hearing from a lot of people who attended CodeStock last Saturday is how well the open spaces "track" was. This is one area I can't take any credit for, my only role in planning open spaces was requesting a room from the college; all credit for success goes to Alan...
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First, I want to give a shout out to Knoxville's "front man" Wally McCulre for including a spot on his latest ASP.NET Podcast for Codestock! (full disclosure - and apologies - it's me in the spot). Big thanks to Wally! So what is the CodeStock After Party ? It's a time...
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I'm pleased to announce that planning for Knoxville's first CodeStock is underway! The website, http://www.codestock.org/ is up now and includes a pre-registration form. CodeStock's mission is to bring the best and brightest code experts to East Tennessee for a one day conference open...
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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 tracks each with 5 sessions. I had signed up to do...
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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.