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Another year, another San Diego Code Camp I signed up for this talk way in advance, and forgot to check up on it. There were a couple of presenters giving similar talks. What I tried to do was demo my way through WCF REST support, WCF Data Services, and WCF RIA Services, explaining what each one was and how it differed from the others. I had a *TON* of questions and so the talk ran a little long, and I didn’t get to do any of my RIA demos. I think I stopped after slide 15. However, I did have a couple people come up to me afterwords and say that my talk was there favorite talk of the whole code camp, so in that respect – mission accomplished! The room was jam packed standing room only, so thanks to everyone who came out.

Here are the Slides and Demos

I drove up to Fullerton yesterday to give a talk on Cloud Computing at the Southern California Code Camp. My talk was first thing in the morning which was nice. Llewellyn was recording me, and Steve Evans dropped by as well. I ran out of time, but everyone said it was a great talk. Here are the slides.

I attended the following talks:
10:00 Richard Campbell – Scaling
12:15 Michele Bustamante – Implementing Claims Based Security
1:30 Chris Love – WCF and jQuery
2:45 John Miller – Introduction to the T4 template language
and finally I stopped by
4:00 Aaron Skonnard – What’s new in WCF/WF 4.0

Aaron has always been one of my heroes and I had never seen him speak before, so I dropped by to check him out.

Unfortunately that night I got food poisoning and had to miss the second day.

This was my second year presenting at the SoCal Code Camp San Diego.  Unfortunately this year I had to miss Saturday because of my daughter’s 5th birthday party.  I heard the evening festivities weren’t as nice anyway, because they didn’t have band.  As Dave McCarter said, “Where’s the Rock and Roll?”

My topic this year was “REST vs. SOAP or Why can’t we all just get along.”  It was on implementing both REST and SOAP from the same service using WCF.  The official session info is here which contains the slides and the demos.  The talk was first thing in the morning on Sunday, but despite the time the room was packed.  The talk went extremely well even though I ran out of time and didn’t finish the entire demo.  Both Daniel Egan and Lionel Wong asked if I would present at other events.  I had several people come up afterwards to ask for business cards, and two people said it was the best talk they had seen so far this year.  Thanks to everyone who came out!

I just got back from the Southern California Code Camp in Los Angeles. I gave a talk on Fixing Legacy Code with Llewellyn Falco. I was just filling in for Jason Kerney (http://bagheertech.blogspot.com/). The talk covers two topics from Michael Feathers’ book on Working Effectively with Legacy Code (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052): slicing and peeling. Afterwords the attendees were asking lots of questions about Resharper, CodeRush, TypeMock, and RhinoMocks that I was able to help clarify, so at least I was able to contribute.

I gave my second talk at Southern California Code Camp San Diego.
Instead of slides, I just opened a notepad and started asking what the audience wanted to know and or understand about WCF. I got a huge range of topics, so I tried to weave them into a coherent story on the spot.