SW Florida .Net Developers Group

In case you missed the media firestorm that was last night’s announcement of Open Registration and Call for Speakers at the SW Florida .Net Code Camp 2010, here it is again.

Head yourself over to http://codecamp.swfldev.net, and hit the Sign In button if you’re at least coming to the event. You’ll need a valid Microsoft Live ID to play, but you can customize your profile information, including the email where you want to receive Code Camp messages, and it doesn’t have to match.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

I’ll make this brief.

Best idea for a Windows Phone 7 Application (non-corporate owned) for the Marketplace, as voted on by those present at the August Group Meeting (on 8/17/2010, at Ingage Networks, 2210 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples – doors at 6pm, presentation starts at 6:30pm), gets:

• an MSDN Ultimate Subscription
• the last half of Kevin Wolf (@bytemaster)’s presentation devoted to getting you started.

Must be present to win. Can, however, think it up on the fly during the first hour, but do not interrupt Kevin with questions about your idea. And I can tell who’s come to Group, and who’s just there to stack the vote.

Decisions of the President are final.

Greetings, Devs!

Follow me beyond the jump for a comprehensive list of design resources that will help you take what you learned at Diane Leeper’s outstanding presentation last Tuesday, and run with it. Plus some of my own.

Enjoy!

John

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The DevProConnections Virtual Conference is set to go the day after Diane, 6/23 – sessions start at 10:30 in the morning, and they’re cast over the web. All you need to do to hear folks like Shawn Wildermuth, Kathleen Dollard, Billy Hollis, Tim Huckaby and Dino Esposito is to just sign up. That also gives you the ability to play back the recorded sessions until Christmas Eve.

Enjoy!

Our June meeting is all set for 6/22, 6:30pm at Ingage Networks, and I hope you’ll all join us for a cool topic we’ve never had here before at Group: Design. World-class web designer to the .Net community Diane Leeper will be making her triumphant return to SW Florida to talk about front-end web development.

Knowing the presentation layer and getting your visual creative on is truly the forgotten tool in your arsenal as a developer. Find out why stuff looks good or bad, and what to do to correct it, and you’re that much further ahead in your career. You can actually stand a good chance of answering some of those crazy recs that expect you to be a super-star at all n tiers of development. You can avoid what I did with the code camp site, in a pure panic. And you can justify your company buying you a license for Photoshop or Expression on the same box that runs Visual Studio and SSMS.

So I hope we don’t get locked out of the third floor again. I hope I have enough time to bring pizza BEFORE the meeting. But most of all, I hope you show up and enjoy what should be an enlightening, interesting presentation.

Yours,
John