For anyone in Southern California who is interested in attending a free, community-driven, two-day conference on .NET and other computing technologies, the SoCal CodeCamp will be coming to town this coming weekend - June 24 and 25. CodeCamps are free, developer-driven, code-rich events that occur over weekends to serve as a place for the local development community to share ideas.
To my knowledge, this is the first CodeCamp in San Diego (although there was one up in Fullerton back in January 2006). This CodeCamp will be held at the UC-San Diego Extension Complex, which is part of the beautiful UCSD Campus, just west of Hwy 5, about a mile north of the 52 Hwy (locations & directions). I'll be giving two talks on Saturday:
- The Ins and Outs of ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation - Any website that is composed of more than one page needs some sort of navigation user interface. A navigation user interface might be as simple as static hyperlinks to the other pages in the site, or might involve the use of menus or trees. Prior to ASP.NET 2.0, developers typically rolled their own site navigation solutions. ASP.NET 2.0, however, makes defining a site's structure and implementing it using common navigation user interface elements a walk in the park. In this talk we'll look at ASP.NET 2.0's site navigation features, the navigation-related Web controls, and how to customize the site map provider piece of site navigation.
- Let's Build a Weblog Engine Right Now - In this talk you'll see just how quick and easy it is to create a scalable, real-world data-driven application in ASP.NET 2.0. Starting from scratch, during the presentation we'll define our database structure, create a tiered application architecture, and build the ASP.NET web pages needed for a fully functional, working weblog engine that you can start using to host your blog. And all within the time limits of the session!
My talks are but two of dozens of talks canvasing a wide swath of technologies spanning a two-day event. You can check out the entire schedule as well as examine session abstracts. Finally, there's the ever-popular (and free!) Geek Dinner on Saturday night. There will be free food, live music, and (non-free) drinks. Plus it's at the Institute of the Americas buildings at the UCSD Campus, which if I recall correctly, has a stunning sunset view of the Pacific.
Hope to see you there!