Chris Rauber - Atlanta Code Camp Recap

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Atlanta Code Camp Recap
Overall, it was a good time. Most of the sessions I attended were very informative. I went to an "Sharepoint for ASP.Net Developers" session and was reminded how much I enjoy working on stuff other than Sharepoint. ;-)

Shawn Wildermuth gave a couple of great sessions (expectedly) on Silverlight and Expression Blend. It's hard *not* to be excited about Silverlight. I just hope it can deliver on its promises.

I am always amazed to find so many people who are willing to give up a full day on Saturday to gather together for a geekfest code camp. A special thanks goes out to the sponsors and organizers for putting this all together. I am sure it is an absolute labor of love, because I can't believe how much time they must put into this event to make it so successful.

As an added bonus, I won a free pass to the devscovery conference put on by the folks at Wintellect. Hoo-ray for me. The conference looks pretty cool, but since hotel and airfare are *not* included, I am reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry offers George "free" Super Bowl tickets - "So in order to use these, I gotta spend like fifteen-hundred bucks. This is a bill for fifteen-hundred dollars." :-)