As described in this post, I was scheduled to speak @ the Richmond Code Camp 2008.1 on last Saturday.

Oh boy, that was fun. Decent crowd showed up for the code camp; around 15-20 people attended my session on "WSS and SharePoint for Developers". Presentation went smooth, no hiccups except the quality of the projector in my room L The projector was of a poor quality and attendees of the session complained about it. Setting aside the projector related problem, ECPI has been a great host for such events; kudos to them for providing their facility and for making sure everything goes smooth.

Following is the link to the presentation download.

WSS and SharePoint For Developers [ Presentation ]

During the key note, Andy Leonard announced that he is leaving VA and going to Atlanta GA. That's for sure is a great loss for the developer community in Richmond and surrounding area. He is a fine architect, author, speaker and one of the few good people around us. I wish Andy and his family best of luck in their future endeavors. Andy and the family, God bless you.

In the end, big thanks and appreciations for Kevin Israel, Andy Leonard, Darrell Norton, Robin Edwards, Susan Lennon and the team for making this code camp one more success. Guys, you rock!

I will be speaking @ the upcoming Richmond Code Camp on April 12, 2008. The topic is "SharePoint for Developers" and I am going to share couple of development options available to a .NET developer for extending SharePoint. I will also share couple of tips and tricks that I have learned while working with WSS/MOSS and would also have two cool demos. :)

You can see the tentative schedule for the sessions here

I just came back from the 4th Richmond Code Camp. It was great and I had a wonderful time!

One of the reasons I love Code Camps is that you get to know tons of latest and greatest stuff in a short period of time (couple of hours) that you would probably learn yourself in couple of days or may be weeks!

I attended couple of sessions and most of them were good. I would specially like to mention the session on Share Point by Joshua Carlisle. Josh is a wonderful guy; he is nothing but passionate about the Share Point and you can consider him a subject matter expert on that. Well done Josh, great presentation.

Andy Leonard, the local SSIS guru, and the RCC team did a commanding job arranging such an event. Thank you all and thanks to vendors for some awsome books, goodies, and food.

By the way, I got two books during sessions and the Flexible Keyboard in drawing @ the end of the day :)