camping 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.