.Net Jonesie - Code Camp done and dusted

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

As you've probably seen elsewhere our Code Camp is done for 2006 and yes, it was a great success. I've been collating the eval sheets and we got a very high average score on presentations, speakers & venue. I think the only thing really missed was some sort of social event. You can bet that it will be on the agenda for the next Code Camp, but this year there just wasn't time to do everything.

When we started the initial planning for Code Camp, I estimated that 80 people would be a good size audience. In the end we had 150 registrations and of these about 20 no-shows. For most of Saturday there was in excess of 110 people in the main room.

Some people would like to have another Code Camp this year, but it's taken me three days of rest to regain some level of equilibrium so I'm not yet ready to think about that.

While I didn't have a lot of time to sit and absorb the presentations the highlights for me:

Rod, Chris and Mauricio's Business Forum

They had some great tips and background info for budding entrepreneurs. If I was younger and riskier I would be very inspired to have a go. Sadly, I'm too old and stayed in my ways for that sort of malarky.

Ivan on WPF

Ivan was a great presenter and gave a good overview of WPF with plenty of wizzie demos. I'm sure Kirk will be calling on him again to present.

Tim on Ajax

I think this was Tim's biggest audience but despite a few nerves he did a great demo of Ajax & Anthem. He made me wish I was doing web stuff.

And all the other presenters were great too - but some required more brain cells than I had to spare over the weekend. That's the big problem with running these type of events - you miss out on most of the good stuff. Oh well, maybe next year.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 4:25:20 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

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