OKCodeCamp is almost here! I will be there and presenting!
It's already here, just nine days away!
They've got a great line up and not just because I'm speaking. Out of 10 speakers 7 are MVP's and then there's Jason Zander - the General Manager of the .NET Framework Division at Microsoft!
Register today - I'm sure it will fill up fast!
Load up and hit the road! It will be well worth it!
Here's a letter with some additional details I just received today from the OKCPro.NET President and OKCodeCamp Director - Raymond Lewallen:
First and foremost, I want to thank those who have already registered and will be attending. I also want to thank our platinum level sponsors for helping to make this event possible with a great lineup of top-notch speakers!
Also coming in as sponsors so far are FarPoint, Wrox and Infragistics, all providing some money and some giveaways as well! Please consider these companies and what they do for our communities and offer for your professional needs.
I hope this email finds you all well and enjoying your summer! Its finally quit raining here in Oklahoma City and the sun is shining and the weather is in the mid 90s, so its feeling like summer time finally!
We have some awesome giveaways. Over 2 dozen books, Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate, Red-Gate ANTS Profiler, CodeRush, Refactor Pro and much more, including suites from FarPoint and Infragistics. Don’t hold me to this, but their *might* be a Zune in the mix as well!
We were not able to work out a suitable or acceptable deal with the 2 hotels we approached about discounts. The most we were able to get were $10 discounts, and you would have had to have reserved by the end of this week.
The Crowne Plaza hotel is where we recommend staying. http://www.cpokc.com/ It has rooms for as little as $99 per night. There are many, many other hotels in the area though. Any hotel that is located on NW Expressway in Oklahoma City is going to be easy access to the code camp. There is also 2 Marriott hotels, one called the Waterford (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/okcwa-waterford-marriott/) and the other (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/okcok-oklahoma-city-marriott/). All very nice hotels. Again, anything on NW Expressway in Oklahoma City will be easy access.
We are still looking and working to drive up the attendance, so please pass along the information about the code camp to co-workers and friends!
http://www.okcodecamp.com
Thanks again,
Raymond Lewallen
director@okcodecamp.com
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.