Wow! San Diego Code Camp was awesome! Over 300 people over two days, 90 Sessions, Free Geek Dinner, Awesome Music, what a weekend. Big plug to my co-organizers Woody Pewitt, Daniel Egan and Mark Rosenberg.
I wanted to get my slides and sample code for all my talks. Luckily, my voice lasted through all three sessions. It died shortly there after and was pretty rough all weekend.
You can find all my sample code and slides below.
Into to the ADO.Net Entity Framework
We had a good crowd for this one. People were dragging in chairs from other rooms to make up for the lack of seats. It is obvious that everyone is interested about the topic and we had a lot of good discussion. I hope everyone came out of the session with a beginning understanding of the Entity Framework and encouraged to learn more.
Slides: http://shrinkster.com/zz0
SQL 2008 New Data Types
Another capacity crowd.
Slides and Sample Code: http://shrinkster.com/zyz
SQL 2008 Policy Based Management
A little bit smaller crowd, but was definitely the most interactive session of the day. Lots of good discussion about implementing PBM and lots of interest among the attendees. It seems like a feature that has kind of flown underneath the radar, but I think will be really useful of SQL Server Environments.
Slides: http://shrinkster.com/zyy
All in all, a great weekend and I am looking forward to up coming Code Camps in L.A. and San Luis Obispo.
If you are interested in SharePoint Development there are a couple interesting items care of Lynn Langit's blog. We recently had a SQL Server FireStarter event here in SoCal a few weeks ago. Keeping the Fire going Mithun Dhar is hosting a SharePoint FireStarter event on Wednesday, June 11th up in Redmond. Can't attend the event in person? You are in luck all the events will be broadcast via Live Meeting.
Register for the In Person Event
Register for the Live Meeting
In addition, there is a new website dedicated to building applications on SharePoint.
Enjoy!
They announced at Tech-Ed this week that SQL Server 2008 is the owner of a brand new logo.
I am liking the new "dynamic grid symbol" that will be used on products in the Server and Tools Division. Check out the Data Platform Insider post for more info on the larger branding strategy using the grid symbol