I tried something the weekend before last at the 3rd Mid-Atlantic Code Camp ... I went slideless! I presented 3 sessions during the day and I did not have a single slide, not one, nada, nothing. The good news was the audience loved it. I took a few polls during the day and the response was definitely...

I will be presenting two sessions at the Richmond Code Camp tomorrow: Refactoring This will be a walkthrough of the Martin Fowler example but in C# (thanks to our very own, Bryant Smith who converted it to C# some time back). We will also get in to why, when and how to refactor. Unit Testing ASP.NET...

At 5:00am on Saturday morning, I headed in to downtown DC to get some prizes and a few books from the Thycotic office. Then off to collect Ryan Olshan at 5:30, and John Morales at 5:45. We hit 95 and headed south for Richmond. The drive was uneventful with most of us still in pre-coffee haze and Bob...

Do you breathe agile? Do your progress bars always turn green? Do you refactor in your sleep? Then I need you for the agile track … We are looking for attendees, speakers and volunteers! This is the first Mid-Atlantic Code Camp to have an official Agile track (and I am the track chair –...

Many developers in our industry prefer a dark corner to the presentation podium. This is often explained away with references to introverted personalities and geekish tendencies. While this may be true for certain individuals, there are definitely many benefits to breaking away from this stereotype....

The CMAP Code Camp is being held on Saturday 4/21/2007 from 9AM to 7PM - you can register here . The sessions for the day have been posted here . It looks like a great spread of SQL, Web, future stuff, alterative languages and some Agile. Also don't miss the NovaCodeCamp in Reston, Virginia this Saturday...

This last Saturday morning, the Thycotic team headed to Richmond at a bright and early 6am. This alone wouldn't have been too bad but some on the team had been busy until 2am on a client project! For the first Richmond Code Camp ever, it actually didn't rain (it rained all day for the last two). John...

The CMAP Code Camp is being held on Saturday 4/21/2007 from 9AM to 7PM - you can register here . The sessions for the day have been posted here . It looks like a great spread of SQL, Web, future stuff, alterative languages and some Agile. Also don't miss the NovaCodeCamp in Reston, Virginia this Saturday...

Many developers in our industry prefer a dark corner to the presentation podium. This is often explained away with references to introverted personalities and geekish tendencies. While this may be true for certain individuals, there are definitely many benefits to breaking away from this stereotype....

I presented on Pair Programming at the Maryland ColdFusion User's Group on Tuesday and was very pleased to tell everyone about all the upcoming Code Camps in our area. I also promised to post the links to the group, so here they are: 4/14/2007 NoVa Code Camp (Reston, Virginia) 4/21/2007 CMAP Code Camp...