Pittsburgh CodeCamp

A major portion of my day on Saturday was spent at Pittsburgh Code Camp. Being a not-so-eager-to-make-friends-at-new-places kinda guy I am I have never been to one of these code camps. It actually was pretty good. I got to meet some old friends.

Lessons learnt:

• Don't be fooled by the presentation topic names, some of the topics are NOT as advanced as the topics suggest
• Take my laptop next time I attend this so that when I get bored just write a blog or read some feeds using Google Gears (as there was no internet connection there)
• It's not just about the presentations that are made, it's about meeting new people, catching up with old ones
• If I am looking for a job this is where I wanna be

Some of the Presentations attended:

• Getting Started with Silverlight 2 - John Juback from ComponentOne (presentation notes will be made available here in couple of days)
• Refactoring in C# - Bad code to better code - Jonathan Cogley
• Advanced Unit Testing with Mock Objects - Jeremy Jarrell (presentation notes is available here)

Overall it was a rewarding experience and I should really applaud and Pittsburgh .NET User Group & Pittsburgh Technical Council for conducting this code camp.