[Tfug] code camp

[Eric Gearhart]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM, <Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com> wrote:
>
> So who's all going up to desert code camp in phx this Saturday?
>
> Respectfully,
> Liz, Data Base Administrator,
> Methods Engineering

I'm a network guy and Linux guy by trade, but I dabble in everything
including programming... do you think the talks will either be too far
over my head for me to get them or I'll be turned off because they're
too Microsoft centric?

Some of the stuff listed here looks interesting:
http://desertcodecamp.com/

...but a lot of it feels like the thing was sponsored by Microsoft.
For example, lots of .NET talks, lots of Windows Azure talks, "New
Spatial Features in SQL Server 2008," "Dynamic BizTalk EDI Batching,"
"Debugging with Visual Studio" - all very Microsoft centric. Where are
the Java/Eclipse talks? Where are the Amazon EC2 talks, with Xen
thrown in?

Don't get me wrong I don't hate Microsoft, I'm just very platform
agnostic, and it bugs me a bit that they present this as 'community
presented'

>From the previously mentioned page:
"Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant
to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers.
Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by
anyone other than the community. "


Maybe I should show up with a BSD or penguin t-shirt on :)

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Eric
http://nixwizard.net