A couple weekends ago, I attended Richmond Code Camp and had a great time. This was different than the last code camp I went to, in the fact that I spent most of the day presenting, not watching others. I have coded in front of co-workers before. I have given presentations to strangers before. But I had never coded in front of strangers before. There were a lot of things I learned. »
I have published the source of my Code Camp talk here. Check it out and post any questions. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the NHibernate talk. It went really well and everyone had tons of great questions. Feel free to post feedback here, both positive and negative, so the next time I give this talk, it will be even better. For those of you that just want a little more guidance on NHibernate, here are some good links: NH Forge NHibernate Documentation Fluent NHibernate S#arp Architecture NHibernate best practices Also, thanks to the coordinators of Richmond CC. »
On October 3rd, I encourage anyone who wants to learn about NHibernate to come to Richmond Code Camp. I will be giving a 100 level talk describing how to get started using it, and what it really is. My initial idea is to create a fairly simple ASP.NET MVC application without persistence (use in memory Lists). And, in an hour, make it 100% persisted with transactions, lazy loading, etc. I am a little concerned it will be hard to teach NHibernate and get it done in an hour, but I am going to go for it. »
I attended my first Code Camp this past weekend. Overall, it was a great experience, although for a few reasons you might not expect. I learned a little about new .NET features, but the biggest benefit for me was the networking. My code community, for the most part, revolves around Mailtrust. Through Code Camp, blogging, and Twitter (I will blog on this later, since you might remember my last Twitter post) I have joined a community of developers much larger than Mailtrust’s. »