Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp 2007

I just had a great time down in Cincinnati yesterday. Mike Wood, Jim Holmes and a lot of other people I'm not even aware of put on the second Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp and what a great time! My talk, Balancing WCF Security and Performance, went really well. It was a small, yet very engaged group. I believe everyone in the room had some sort of service programming experience, whether it was Web Services, Remoting or WCF. They were an impressive group. The talk had an "Open-Spaces" feel to it.

I only sat in on a couple of talks, Nino Benvenuti's SQL CE discussion and Dustin Campbell's Back to Basics, and learned a lot in both. If you have any interest in SQL and are a bit confused by the different products out there (i.e., SQL CE, SQL Mobile, SQL Everywhere, etc) catch Nino's talk. Dustin's talk was applicable to everyone. Interestingly, this was all about writing quality code yet we never really typed any. Dustin was thrilled when a young lady that had been sitting in on this session approached and told him how wonderful his talk was. I think he was blushing.

I've got more I want to talk about, but I have to get back home. I'm writing this from my hotel room in Cinci and need to get on the road. I still haven't talked about the after-party where Dustin has finally convinced me to watch this series of videos from MIT. He is extremely enthusiastic about them and it's about time I find out why. NOW, I'm leaving.