There are two code camps this weekend: CMAP Code Camp in Maryland Pittsburgh Code Camp in Pennsylvania I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on Refactoring - a topic that is very dear to me. Register now and come along to talk code.   We are hiring!  Do you want to write beautiful code in a Test Driven, Refactored, ...

It's On! The next Richmond Code Camp is set for Saturday, April 26th. Every year they keep getting better and better, so this one is going to be the best yet! I'm set to speak there about some of the new stuff in SQL 2008 for Developers and DBAs, and I hope to see a lot of people there. There is no schedule published as of yet, but keep ...

The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here.   I am presenting two sessions: 9:00-10:15:     Refactoring in C# 1:00-2:15:        Web Application Testing in Watin Register now!   We are ...

The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here. I will be presenting on two topics: Refactoring in C# - bad code to better code Web Application Testing in Watin There are lots of great sessions from WPF, TDD, SSIS, jQuery, SQL Server 2008 and more... You can ...

March 1st was the Roanoke Code Camp 2008. This was my first Code Camp in Roanoke, and their second one. Congratulations to Robin Edwards and everyone else involved organizing this event. There were a few hiccups with the schedule, including my SQL Server 2008 presentation, which was canceled. On February 29th my SQL 2008 instance stopped working, ...

I attended my first event at the new Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) in Maryland tonight.  Geoff Snowman, our local Microsoft integration specialist showed off the latest BizTalk Server (BTS) technology and talked about the future of BTS and its related products.  As Geoff pointed out, BTS is a niche product that works well for large ...

On Saturday, the Thycotic crew (well, only three of us this time) went down to Richmond to the forth Richmond Code Camp.  It is a 2 hour drive but my new handy TomTom GPS did well - asides from one occasion where it decided to re-route us back through Washington DC when we were only 30 minutes from the event! Kevin presented on ''C# 3.0'' ...

This last Saturday morning, the Thycotic team headed to Richmond at a bright and early 6am.  This alone wouldn't have been too bad but some on the team had been busy until 2am on a client project!  For the first Richmond Code Camp ever, it actually didn't rain (it rained all day for the last two). John started out with his ...

Saturday I went down to the Richmond Code Camp 3 with Jonathan Cogley, Bryce Covert, and John Morales. Jonathan did two sessions, one on Refactoring and the other on Unit Testing with Rhino Mocks. John did a presentation on Lucene.NET and NHibernate, Bryce did a presentation on Code Access Security using code policies, and I did one on Hashing and ...

The CMAP Code Camp is being held on Saturday 4/21/2007 from 9AM to 7PM - you can register here. The sessions for the day have been posted here.  It looks like a great spread of SQL, Web, future stuff, alterative languages and some Agile. Also don't miss the NovaCodeCamp in Reston, Virginia this Saturday. I think April is most definitely ...