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March 8th, 2010

You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp

As I announced earlier in the month, Philly Code Camp was searching for qualified speakers for many different topics surrounding .NET specifically .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.  Now, in this post, I have the pleasure to announce to you that we are going to be looking for sponsors for Philly Code Camp.  If you have a product that you would like to present to over 500 targeted, attentive, and actively engaged .NET developers, please contact us today.



Philly.Net Presents:

Code Camp 2010.1

Saturday April 10th 2010 from 8:30-5:00
Hosted at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA

If you want to reach out to the Philadelphia Area’s best software developers, DBA’s and IT Pros, here is your chance!

This year, our event was chosen by Microsoft to be the first Code Camp broadcast by MSDN and Channel 9. That’s right, in addition to the 500+ attendees that we expect in person, selected Code Camp content will be available to viewers everywhere!  This content will be broadcast via Live Meeting (available live and on demand).  It will then be posted to the extremely popular Channel 9 web site where it will be made available to thousands of viewers.  MSDN reports similar content averages 100 additional on line attendees, plus 4000 downloads of content so far! This makes for an excellent marketing opportunity for your company, even if you aren’t in our local area!

Our recent Code Camps have averaged 500+ attendees, people working with Microsoft Technologies from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York and beyond!  We expect a similar sized crowd on April 10th live in Fort Washington PA, not to mention all of the views on the internet.   This will be our most exciting Code Camp ever!  We are planning a variety of technology tracks including the following general topics:

  • Beginner
  • ASP.Net
  • Silverlight
  • Framework
  • Data
  • Tools
  • Architecture
  • Alt.Net
  • Application Lifecycle Management
  • SQL Server
  • Sharepoint
  • IT

Code Camp Content will be available live over the Internet via MSDN!

Big Change This Year – For the first time, we will be making 10 select Code Camp presentations available via the internet.  Presentations can be viewed live (via Live Meeting) or watched at a later time too.  Thanks to the help of MSDN, we’ll be broadcasting and recording from 2 rooms at Code Camp.  The content will then be posted to the very popular Channel 9 web site.  This content will likely get thousands of views.  Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of it!

What do the Sponsors/Partners Get?

Benefits available to Contributor Gold
$1000
Silver
$500
Prize/
Swag
*** Your logo will be included during presentations broadcast via Live Meeting and available on the popular Channel 9 web site! *** X
Booth/table in the common area to promote your company and meet our attendees. X
Track Sponsor – Hang your banner and distribute materials in one of our Track rooms, visible during the entire day’s sessions 1 X
Hang your banner in Code Camp common area X
Time to address the entire crowd during Code Camp lunch break 2 X
Banner ad on the Philly.Net website for one year (included in our ad rotation) X
Space for a logo and 1-2 paragraphs of Partner’s custom message (including links) on the Philly.Net Code Camp website X X
Logo/Link on all Code Camp Emails X X
Individual slide included in Code Camp slide deck shown in common area all day long. X X
Your name announced with contributors throughout Code Camp. X X X
Your marketing material placed on our marketing table X X X
Swag raffled off during or after Code Camp X X X
Included on a Code Camp contributor slide X X X

1 Choice of tracks for Gold Partners are available on first come, first served basis, limited to 10 tracks.
2 Lunch break presentations are limited to 1-2 minutes per partner, just enough time to pitch your company and direct attendees to your table.

We Need Your Help!

Code Camp is free to attendees but expensive to run.  If you are looking for ways to connect with Philadelphia’s best Microsoft developers and professionals, this is the place to do it.  Our emails go out to our membership of over 3500 .Net Developers.  And of course, we partner with several other user groups, each with mailing lists of their own!

With your help, we’ll be able to provide the following:

  • Breakfast – for about 525 people.
  • Lunch – for about 525 people
  • Snacks – Soda, Coffee, Snacks throughout the day
  • Attendee gifts and Door Prizes – be creative.
  • Presenter Prizes – The presenters deserve something too, don’t they?
  • Session Prizes – In the past, each presenter was able to give out prizes during their session!
  • End of the Day Raffles – After each Code Camp we give out a ton of prizes.  It’s a great way to end a great event.

What is Code Camp?

This is an event for Developers, DBA’s and IT Professionals working with Microsoft .Net, SQL Server and other related products.  We’ll have 60 sessions total (80 minutes each) in 12 tracks on a variety of topics including .Net, ASP.Net, SQL, Infrastructure and more.  Code Camp is completely organized by volunteers and all of the presenters are volunteers. Please check out ourweb site for information about Philly.Net, previous code camps, and this Code Camp (information will be posted shortly).
The following groups are assisting with Code Camp:

What is Philly.Net?

Philly.Net is a user group for Microsoft .Net programmers in the Philadelphia area. We’re a member of INETA, and have been hosting meetings in the Philadelphia suburbs since 2002. We also host meetings in southern NJ. In addition to our regular meetings, we have hosted several very successful code camps and hands-on training events.


Please contact me to discuss any ideas you have. Feel free to be creative.

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March 1st, 2010

Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1

Philly.NET is looking for speakers to fill 60 sessions for Code Camp 2010.1. We have exciting news this year. 10 of the sessions will be broadcast live by the MSDN team in Redmond and posted to Channel 9. We need to set the agenda by March 12 so please get your submissions posted in the coming days.

Enter your session details here…

Details

Our first 2010 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 10 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
  • 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
  • 10 of those sessions recorded and broadcast live through MSDN and published on Channel 9.
  • 12 tracks
  • 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
  • Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack
  • Raffles and prizes at 5:00
  • Easy parking
  • After hours party (network with speakers and attendees)

All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (We need sponsors!), Silver partners (Microsoft BizSpark) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft).

Agenda

  • 8:00 Registration, continental breakfast
  • 11:30 Social networking in the break room, hoagies, drinks and snacks
  • 5:00 evals, lots of raffle prizes
  • 5:30-? After hours party at a local pub

Tracks

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October 18th, 2009

Philly Code Camp 2009.2

Zune HDAs I indicated a couple weeks ago I was going to be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.2. If you weren’t there you missed a great day of learning about many of the new technologies that are going to matter to you, as a developer, in the next 12 months. Not all of the topics were Microsoft related or even Developer related, for the first time this year there was an Enterprise IT track, targeting specifically you network admins. So Code Camp next year is something you should pay attention too, even if you are not a developer.

Also the Beginner Track was broken in to two different tracks this year, Beginner I (which I was apart of) is designed for those of you who are brand new to software development and want to get a feel for the tools, Beginner II is designed for those of you who already have a handle on the tools and want to start learning a little more about developing software. Both are great tracks and both had a very good showing, so if you know a high school student, college student, or seasoned learner that wants to start developing software, they should stay tuned and check back with the Philly.NET website in late March 2010.

Also if you weren’t there, I really hope you can make the next one in April. You will not be disappointed. The two presentations that I attended this Code Camp were:

  1. Al Katawazi’s presentation on using ASP.NET MVC in the Enterprise.
  2. Dani Diaz’s presentation on the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Both presentations were interesting and engaging and I highly recommend them as speakers.

While I am on the subject, if you have a chance, and were present for my talks, please take the time to respond to the survey of what you thought about Philly Code Camp 2009.2 and specifically my talks. This is the only way that Philly.NET Users Group can get feed back on what to do better next time and what worked great this time around. I look forward to the feedback. And there is a Zune HD in it for one lucky winner.

As I promised in my talks here are the downloadable resources that I used as part of my presentation.


Beginner I Track – 10:30 AM – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio


Tools Track – 3:30 AM – Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility

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September 30th, 2009

I am going to be speaking at Philly Code Camp 2009.2

For the second 2009 Philly Code Camp, it will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. If you haven’t signed up please register on the Philly.NET web site.  Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site.  Check here and here for the latest printable agenda, there will be:

  • Lots of code, just say no to slides!
  • 8 hours of presentations
  • 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
  • 12 tracks including two hands-on Beginner rooms and the Bonus Track
  • 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
  • Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)
  • Raffles and prizes at 5:00
  • Convenient parking
  • After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees)

All of this is made possible by the Gold partners (Component One, Hosting.com, TEK Systems), Silver partners (Pearson, Redgate, Telerik) and the Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft).


My First Presentation at 10:00

I have been asked back to do my presentation from April again in the newly expanded Beginner I track at 10:00 AM.  The abstract for this talk is as follows:

This session explores the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and how it is used to develop Web and Windows applications.  The topics include:

  • The IDE
  • Solutions and projects
  • Templates
  • Files created
  • The debugger
  • The configuration file

If you are going to be attending this talk please bring Visual C# 2008 Express with you, that is going to be the main tool I will be using to demonstrate the features of Visual Studio.


My Second Presentation at 3:30 PM

I will also be doing a new presentation on extending Visual Stuido 2010 in the Tools track at 3:30 PM.  The abstract for this is as follows:

I will be showing the basics of how to get started on extending Visual Studio 2010 for custom highlighting and intellisense support for custom Domain Specific Languages that may be used with in a company for configuration or custom processing. I will be using a real world example, of how I am extending visual studio to support the coding of the Apache mod_rewrite style configuration files that are used in my URL Rewriter that was featured in PDC 2008 last year. http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com

If you are going to be attending this talk please bring Visual Studio 2010 with you and the Visual Studio SDK already installed.


On the day of the presentation I will be posting up the slides and any links that are relevant to my presentation on this blog.

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