Boise Code Camp 2008

Saturday, March 8th, 2008
At Boise State University in the
College of Business and Economics

Register today to attend free: www.BoiseCodeCamp.org

This free event for technical professionals is produced by the community, for the community.

Code Camp is bigger than ever this year featuring new and exciting technologies, training on fundamentals, a great party, and more.

• 63 sessions from 45 amazing presenters
• The best training value available anywhere
• Fewer slides, more code and examples
• Familiar names and local real-world coders side by side
• An incredible amount of talent and information
• Free lunch, dinner, swag, and giveaways
• Held during non-work hours (we have jobs too)
• Sessions for non-coders as well
• Amazing after party in the BSU stadium Hall of Fame room

No matter whether you are a seasoned coder, a student, a business analysis in software, a project manager, or a hobbyist technologist, there is something at code camp for you. Invest in yourself and come prepared to learn about these things and more:

• ASP.Net
• Agile / Methodology
• Architecture
• Client Development
• Databases and DB development
• Delphi
• Fundamentals
• Games & Graphics
• Google APIs
• I.T. And Operations
• Languages & Frameworks
• Mobile
• Security
• Web Development
• WCF, WF, WPF
• Virtualization
• XML and the Web
• Java, .Net, SQL, Oracle

Register today at www.BoiseCodeCamp.org.

CodeRage II Virtual Developer Conference - November 26-30, 2007

Be sure you are registered to attend CodeRage II. This is CodeGear's second virtual developers conference. Being virtual it is a whole lot cheaper and easier to attend. The key is to actually schedule time to watch sessions and be sure you are not working or otherwise distracted. If you are overseas that gets even more interesting.

You can always catch the replays later, but then you miss out on the live chat and Q&A session. I must admit, as a presenter it is odd being in the chat room with the attendees while you are presenting - you are both the presenter and the "peanut gallery" at the same time.

You'll see sessions on Delphi, Ruby, Java, PHP, C++, Databases, .NET, Win32 and all the latest CodeGear tools and technologies.

I'll be attending and presenting both. I hope to see you there, virtually of course!

Robocode Java Programming Challenge

According to Chris Brandsma, it appears David Starr has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the rest of us to a Robocode Java Programming Challenge. In Robocode you use Java to program a little 2D robot to maneuver in the virtual arena and do battle with the other robots.

I always thought this was a great type of game. I built a fairly good robot for the 3D D-Robots from PlasmaCode (link no longer available, but I will find it if you are interested). The D in D-Robots is for Delphi, which is actually Delphi Web Script, a 3rd party, open source, Delphi syntax compatible scripting language. Just in case you didn't know, Delphi 2007 for Win32 is out (and ROCKS!) and there is also free Turbo releases of Delphi.

I figure this is a great way to brush up on my Java, and also have some fun doing virtual battle! One major advantage Robocode has over D-Robots (beyond still being available) is that Robocode is open source (as is Java now), so you know it will stick around as long as people are interested. Anyone else interested in a competition?

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