I'm a bit late to the dance with my after-Camp post, but I'd just like to say I had a wonderful time at Code Camp. Everyone was truly motivated to learn and it was great to compare experiences working with .NET.
Saturday was a long, but fun day, content from 9 AM to 9PM followed by a gathering for drinks over at the Westin. I delivered a session in the morning on Agile Development in .NET. On Sunday, I gave three sessions, ASP.NET 2.0, Team System and a “chalk talk“ on effective development practices in .NET. Of course, I completely ran out of time in the Whidbey sessions - there is simply too much to convey in those miniscule 90-minute slots, but I hope I conveyed the core ideas and infected others with excitement around what's coming.
I was impressed by the level of participation and interest from the audiences. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at all, since it was a weekend, people were clearly not there to escape the office but were there in the sincere interests of learning and community.
It was great spending time with the other speakers, some of whom I only knew from their blogs. Here are some of the summaries from the others: Jason Bock, Sam Gentile, Robert Hurlbut, Carl Franklin, Chris Pels and DonXML Demsak.
Hats off to Thom Robbins for doing a fantastic job coordinating the event and for making everybody very nervous by walking around with a video camera... Thom is working on adding content to MSDNCodeCamp.com, where you'll be able to find slides and code from the camp as well as information on the next Camp (tentatively scheduled for February.)
CORRECTION: If you attended my Team System session, I'd like to correct one misstatement. Somehow in the fog of late night editing before Camp, I put the right idea on the wrong slide. I said that SourceSafe in Whidbey shares no bits with the previous version, but I meant to say that Hatteras (the source control management system in Team System) shares no bits with SourceSafe, being a completely new product. SourceSafe is certainly enhanced in Whidbey, but is not rewritten. I knew something was fishy when I was saying it, but I pushed on, thinking “it must be right, it's on the slide!” Sorry for the confusion.
I hope everyone enjoyed Code Camp and that we'll see even more of you for Code Camp III!
-Chris