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October 9 Code Camp 2010.2
Saturday

Fort Washington, PA

Platinum Partners
DeVry University
Microsoft
Gold Partners
Apprenda SaaSGrid
CapTech Consulting
ComponentOne
Gibraltar Software
GitHub
GrapeCity
Hosting.com
LiquidHub
Perficient
TEK Systems
Turnberry Solutions
Silver Partners
Addison-Wesley
ComponentArt
Red Gate Software
Telerik
Charity
Alex's Lemonade Stand

Our second 2010 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 9 from 8:30-5:00. Please register at EventBrite. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site.

  • Lots of code, just say no to slides!
  • 8 hours of learning and networking
  • 63 sessions by 55 speakers (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
  • 13 tracks
  • 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
  • Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack
  • Raffles and prizes at lunch and closing
  • New Booster registration option for charity donations, parties, and prizes
  • Easy parking
  • Convenient hotels (Holiday Inn, 432 Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Washington, PA 215.643.3000)
  • After hours party the Brick House, Willow Grove (network with speakers and attendees)
  • The official Twitter hash tag will be #phillycc. Use it when you tweet and search it to stay in the know.
All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (Apprenda, CapTech Consulting, ComponentOne, Gibraltar Software, GitHub, GrapeCity, Hosting.com, LiquidHub, Perficient, TEKsystems, and Turnberry Solutions), Silver partners (Addison-Wesley, ComponentArt, Red Gate Software, Telerik) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft).

Here is the tentative track list. Click on the speaker names below to see the speaker bio and session topic. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda:

8:00 Registration, continental breakfast

Alt.NET - Brian Donahue - 121
8:30 Brian Donahue - iPhone/Mobile App Development - Lessons Learned by a Web Developer
10:00 John Zablocki - Building .NET Applications with NoRM and MongoDB
12:30 Kendall Miller - A Year in the Life of an ISV
2:00 Steven Bohlen - Unit Testing Patterns and Anti-Patterns
3:30 Dean Poulin - Leveraging StructureMap for Real World Success with Dependency Injection & Inversion of Control

Architecture - Mitch Ruebush - 108
8:30 Mitch Ruebush - Designing and Architecting Mobile Applications
10:00 Kendall Miller - Designing for Others: Lessons from Commercial API Development
12:30 Abraham Sultan - How Regular .NET Apps Become Multi-tenant Cloud Products… in a 45 Minute Sitting!
2:00 Michael Montgomery - Modern Software Architecture
3:30 Matt Mondok - Enterprise Search with ASP.NET MVC and Apache Solr

ASP.NET - Nick Berardi - 122
8:30 John V. Petersen - Extending ASP MVC with jQuery, AJAX and JSON
10:00 Nick Berardi - On the cutting edge with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor
12:30 Ned Ames - ASP.Net MVC - Client To Server, There and Back Again
2:00 Rachel Appel - Web Forms or MVC?
3:30 Adam Tuliper - Hack-Proofing your ASP.NET / MVC Web Applications

Silverlight - John Angelini - 125
8:30 Steve Basl - Silverlight 101: Back to the Basics
10:00 Marc Ziss - Intor to RIA Services
12:00 John Angelini - Bring Your Silverlight UI to Life with Animation
2:00 Peter Laudati - Building Connected Silverlight Applications with WCF
3:30 Matt Van Horn - Developing for LightSwitch

SharePoint - Michael Mukalian - 111
8:30 Michael Mukalian - Custom Actions in SharePoint 2010
10:00 Matt Vignau - Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint
12:30 Becky Isserman - Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight 2010
2:00 Bill Wolff - Running philly.NET on SharePoint 2010
3:30 Charles Chen - Object Oriented Development and Practices in SharePoint

Visual Studio - Rob Keiser - 127
8:30 David Isbitski - Expression Studio for Developers
10:00 Joan Wolff - Beginning Web Development with WebMatrix
12:30 John V. Petersen - Introduction to Visual Studio Lightswitch
2:00 Rob Keiser - Visual Studio Extensions
2:00 Doug White - Intro to R

Framework - Jess Chadwick - 132
8:30 Jess Chadwick - What's New in .NET 4.0
10:00 Todd Snyder - Reactive extensions for .Net (RX)
12:30 Jess Chadwick - Open Spaces Discussion - It's up to you!
2:00 John Zablocki - Extending .NET Applications with the Dynamic Language Runtime
3:30 Joy Chakraborty - Functional Programming using C# and F#

Tools - Travis Laborde - 134
8:30 Christine Murphy - From Trash To Treasure: Refactor with Confidence
10:00 Jeffrey McArthur - Automated Deployment using Hudson and MSDeploy
12:30 Travis Laborde - Travis' Top Ten Tools Tips and Tricks - Take Two!
2:00 Buchanan Dunn - Managing Software Evolution with Mercurial
3:30 Miguel Castro - Software That Survives - part 2: Using the Pipeline Framework

Data - Dane Morgridge - 124
8:30 Dane Morgridge - Getting Started With Entity Framework 4
10:00 David Hoerster - Introduction to WCF Data Services and the OData Protocol
12:30 Rich Dudley - BI Reporting on Windows Azure
2:00 Joseph D'Antoni - Deploying Data Tier Applications with VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2
3:30 Dani Diaz - Put My Data Where? A Survey of Windows Azure Platform Storage Options

SQL & BI - Said Salomon - 110
8:30 Kevin S. Goff - Cool Reporting Features in SSRS 2008R2
10:00 Muthu Ramanathan - What's New in SQL 2008 R2
12:30 Mark Kromer - Cheap & quick data integration with PowerPivot
2:00 Alex Grinberg - .NET scripting for SQL Server BI and T-SQL scripts
3:30 Said Salomon - Database Snapshots

Beginner - Judy Calla - 113
8:30 Judy Calla - Getting Started in Visual Studio for Mainframe Programmers - Part 1
10:00 Judy Calla - Getting Started in Visual Studio for Mainframe Programmers - Part 2
12:30 Lisa Roszko - Intro to Reporting Services
2:00 Brian Lyttle - An Introduction to Production Debugging
3:30 Joan Wolff - SharePoint 2010 for Beginners - Just the Facts

IT - Paul Begley - 106
10:00 Terrie Zimmerman - Jumping onto the Cloud with BPOS
12:30 Laura Hunter - Managing User Identities in the Cloud and Beyond
2:00 Paul Begley - Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 and High Availability
3:30 Bill Wolcken - PowerShell Jumpstart for Administrators and Developers

Windows Phone - Dani Diaz  - 109
8:30 John Baird - Windows Phone 7 - The developer story with Silverlight
10:00 Chris Gomez - Windows Phone 7 Games With XNA
12:30 Dani Diaz - Behind The App: A closer look at the development of a WP7 App
2:00 Chris Love - 10 Things to Make You a Great Mobile Web Developer
3:30 David Isbitski - From Idea to Interactivity: Design Guidelines for Windows Phone 7

11:30 Social networking in the break room, hoagies, drinks and snacks

4:45 evals, lots of raffle prizes

5:00-? After hours party at the Brick House, Willow Grove

 
 
philly.NET Code Camp
Welcome to the 2010.2
Code Camp Guide
 
This site contains valuable information for Code Camp 2010.2 attendees. Use the Files link on the left nav bar to find a room map. Use the Sessions link to get detailed views of speakers and sessions. Once in that list, use the Actions menu to copy the list to Access or Excel. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed. Also check the Partners sections to see the many vendors that help make this event a success!

Prizes at the Event
MSDN Premium
XBOX 360 with Kinect
Zune HD
 
Prizes are donated by sponsors interested in your .NET education. During the lunch break, we will draw for an Zune HD and an XBOX 360 with Kinect. At the end of the day, the main prizes are a new XBOX 360 with Kinect and a Zune HD. You must be registered and present at the drawing to win. Please bring your printed registration ticket to enter the drawings.
 
Many of our speakers are Microsoft MVPs. Some have one year MSDN Premium licenses to raffle. These are worth over $5,000 and include all Microsoft servers, desktop applications, and developer tools for multiple machines. We will raffle one to general attendees, two for Boosters, and one for Speakers.
MSDN Premium License
Visual Studio 2010
Win and XBOX 360!
Win and XBOX 360!

After Code Camp
Complete Your Evaluation
You Could Win a
ZUNE HD

The online evaluation is on the left nav bar. Complete this simple form and provide essential feedback to our leadership team and speakers. This will help improve future code camps. Make sure the email address you enter matches your registration email. Note that results are restricted to philly.NET staff.

There will be one Zune HD winner.

Win a Zune 80 Gb!
Win a Zune HD!