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Just a little reminder that Codestock is coming up shortly folks! It will be June 26-27, 2009 in Knoxville, TN.

CodeStock is about Community. For Developers, by Developers (with love for SysAdmins and DBAs too!). Last year an idea started at CodeStock to mix Open Spaces within a traditional conference. This year we’re going to crank things up to 11 and rip off the knob - and you’re being drafted to help!

• Keynote by Microsoft RIA Architect Evangelist Josh Holmes
• From Developer to Business Owner roundtable with guest Nick Bradbury creator of HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
• 50+ break out sessions + Open Spaces (self-organizing sessions)
• Grand Prize: VSTS 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium
• Virtual sessions with Jeffery Richter and John Robbins

Space is limited so register today at CodeStock.org

“The continuing goal of the Code Camps series is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating. The primary focus is on delivering programming information and sample code that can be used immediately” - IndyCodeCamp

The 2009 IndyCodeCamp was a rousing success once again. David Leininger and the whole crew (sorry I don’t know all your names folks) once again managed to organize and operate a very efficent and informative conference. The The Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Center is a great location and works very well for the event.

There were many, many great presentations but being only human I was only able to watch five. I’ve found myself being less interested in individual technology presentations. No offence to all the presenter but you can only see so many silverlight and azure presentations before you feel like you’ve seen it all.  So, for this event I spent most of my time in track five “Beyond Lines of Code” aka soft skills.

The list of presentations I went to was:

• Care About Your Craft: Adventures in the art of software development - Tim Wingfield
• DevSpeak: Principles - Michael Wood
• Improving our craft: A Discussion on Software Estimation - Michael Eaton
• Being More Than a CodeMonkey: Practice Beautiful Code - Michael Wood
• A Lap Around “Oslo” - Dan Rigsby

And finally below you can check out all the photos I took at the code camp.