Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

• Jan 27, 2008
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The Seattle Code Camp (which despite the misleading photo, isn’t a camping trip) is now over and I have nothing but good things to say about it. I didn’t get a chance to see a lot of talks but did enjoy the xUnit.net talk by Jim Newkirk and Brad Wilson. I’m a fan of their approach to providing extensibility and this session provided all the impetus I needed to really give xUnit.net a try rather than simply talking about trying it. :)

As for my own talk, I had the great pleasure of showing up late to my talk. To this moment, I still don’t know why my alarm didn’t go off. All indications are that it was set properly.

My wife woke me up at 9:00 AM asking, “Don’t you have a talk to give today?” I sure did, at 9:15 AM. I drove like a madman from Mercer Island (sorry to all the people I cut off) to Redmond and ended up being around 10 minutes late I think.

Fortunately the attendees were patiently waiting and despite my frazzled approach, I think the presentation went fairly well. Perhaps Chris Tavares can tell me in private how it really went. ;) Thanks to everyone who attended and refrained from heckling me. I appreciate the restraint and thoughtfulness.

By the way, Chris is part of the P&P group, but he’s also a member of the ASP.NET MVC feature team. I think his role is a P&P liason or something like that. Mainly he’s there to give great advice and help us out. So definitely give his blog a look for some great software wisdom.

As this was my first Code Camp, I am definitely looking forward to the next one.

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Dragan Panjkov Jan 28, 2008 4:41 PM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

Phil,
can we expect to have presentations from this code camp for download available? It would be nice because in agenda there was several interesting sessions on asp.net mvc

Steve Sanderson Jan 28, 2008 7:40 PM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

Me too! If you could post any notes or slides from your talk that would be great.

Jason Haley Jan 28, 2008 11:02 PM

# Interesting Finds: January 29, 2008

Scott Jan 29, 2008 2:01 AM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

You left right before my total and complete flame out/crash and burn. The Javascript presentation went much, much better. Almost flawless from my POV. :) Your presentation was great!

you've been HAACKED Jan 29, 2008 7:06 AM

# So A Model, A View, and a Controller Walk Into a Bar

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Joe Brinkman Jan 29, 2008 8:59 PM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

Don't feel bad. I did the same thing at OpenForce Europe last year - and I was the one coordinating the event. To make matters worse - Visual Studio went into meltdown requiring a complete re-install before my next talk.

Gabe Anzelini Jan 30, 2008 12:14 AM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

I'm thinking everyone in the Seattle area that you cut-off, that read your blog, were prob setting in that room, wondering if you were gonna show up :)

Mike Bosch Feb 01, 2008 3:19 PM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

So I was taking a look at some of your samples. I see your PostRepository has reads and creates, how would an update be handled in this case? Let's say a post had comments as well. I would suspect that, following the same pattern, I might implement a post update like so:
UpdatePost(Post post)
{
using (BlogDataContext db = CreateDataContext())
{
db.Posts.Attach(post, true);
db.SubmitChanges();
}
}

But this throws all sorts of nasties... I would imagine the IPostRepository would have an update method as well - how would that look?

Mike Bosch Feb 01, 2008 3:30 PM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

So I was taking a look at some of your samples. I see your PostRepository has reads and creates, how would an update be handled in this case? Let's say a post had comments as well. I would suspect that, following the same pattern, I might implement a post update like so:
UpdatePost(Post post)
{
using (BlogDataContext db = CreateDataContext())
{
db.Posts.Attach(post, true);
db.SubmitChanges();
}
}

But this throws all sorts of nasties... I would imagine the IPostRepository would have an update method as well - how would that look?

Micah Feb 13, 2008 10:06 AM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

Hey, is that our campsite when we were up at Los Padres?

Haacked Feb 14, 2008 12:43 AM

# re: Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

@Micah yep!

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