Thank You for Coming to the Second SW Florida .Net Code Camp.

We had such a great time. And we hope you did, too.

It was our intent that all 150 of you took away something good from our event, and from what we can tell, at least most of you did.

And in doing so, we took away many good things ourselves, not the least of which were:

An overabundance of our school-bus yellow Code Camp t-shirts. Those will come in handy at Group meetings;
A sense that our community of .Net developers here in SW Florida is thriving, and a hope that it will continue to do so;
A repository of knowledge from our wonderful speakers. We asked them to blog and post links to the resources they shared with you - you'll find those that did on their pop-ups for each presentation;
A new dev community, this one Powershell, to add more fun and excitement to our already-stacked SWFL community calendar. They meet at Neighborhood America for their kickoff on 10/20 at 6:30pm (Thanks, Max! You're an inspiration!);
Some great ideas to try out at next year's Code Camp;
And certainly neither last, nor least, the many kind words and compliments from you on our event that make it all worthwhile.

To commemorate our Code Camp, I shot this probably-crappy video, in which I forgot to show you every speaker, Joe's great keynote, the scrum at the end, or any one-on-ones. But I did catch some great people, at least it's steadier on the cam than the Blair Witch Project, and it gives me something to get better at for next year. Enjoy!

See you again next year!
John Dunagan - Chief Organizer
SW Florida Code Camp

One More Thanks for Our Sponsors

Without these folks, Code Camp wouldn't have happened here - it's as simple as that. Hope you got to meet many of these great folks, who were there because they could help you.

Infragistics: As a world leader in user interface development tools and experts in the User Experience market, Infragistics empowers developers to build and style immersive user experiences and rich data visualization in line of business applications across all platforms — Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight and JSF.
Telerik: Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.
Linxter: "At Linxter, our mission is to create new paths and opportunities for data exchange. With everything around us becoming Internet enabled (iPods, clothing, toasters… anything), it is essential that we have a system in place to securely, easily, and dynamically connect all these things."
JetBrains: Long time friends of the .Net community in general, and the SW Florida .Net Developers Group in particular, JetBrains make the essential dev tools ReSharper, dotTest, and now YouTrack, a bug tracking application currently in Beta. Our favorite Czech Republicans since Vaclav Havel, they've stepped up for every Group in sight, from day one.
Applied Innovations: Our eternally-patient ISP, and winner of 2nd place (shoulda been 1st) in Web Hosting at the 2009 ASP.Net Pro Magazine developer survey.
Demand Technology Software: Since 1998, Demand Technology Software has been hard at work managing Windows performance in the world´s largest and most demanding IT environments. And they're local!
Surround Technologies: As one of the foremost software development and consulting firms, Surround Technologies provides Advanced Agile Software specific to our client's business needs using our Accelerator Software Development Tools and Our Envision Enterprise Solutions. It's Software At the Speed of Business.
Teksystems: TekSystems has been working diligently to get you a real job since you were mowing lawns for school clothes money, and in many cases, before you were even born. Our area is split between the Bradenton and Ft. Lauderdale offices, both of whom take constant care to keep our local talent, local. We appreciate them, and the pizza.
O'Reilly Media: O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme- making, and evangelism.
Wrox: Wrox books are written for programmers by programmers, and have long featured authors and editors from the Florida dev community. They extend that philosophy online with p2p.wrox.com, featuring their invaluable discussion forums.