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Top 10 reasons to attend a philly.net Code Camp:

1. Free as always! No mortgage required.
2. Get all your questions answered by experts in their field.
3. Over 50 exceptional speakers including 14 MVPs.
4. Start the day with fresh hot coffee and danish.
5. Print schedules by track, time slot, or speaker profile.
6. Primo Hoagies are the best! It's like a family picnic for 400.
7. Network with your peers in the common room or outdoor patio.
8. Philly soft pretzels for afternoon break.
9. Schwagman gives out prizes for the finale.
10. No politics, no debates, no bailouts...

Our third installment of the 2008 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 11 from 8:30-5:00. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. Sorry, but we are all sold out. There will be another Code Camp in April.

• Lots of code, just say no to slides!
• 8 hours
• 50 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
• 10 tracks including new IT Infrastructure and Enterprise
• 500 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
• Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)
• Raffles and prizes at 5:00
• Easy parking

8:00 Registration, continental breakfast

Alt.NET - 141
8:30 JP Toto - What does an ALT.NET Project Look Like
10:00 Brian Donahue - Are You Mocking My Fake Stub?
12:30 Jon Graves - Building Maintainable WPF Apps
2:00 Steve Eichert - IronRuby: Ruby Love on the .NET Framework
3:30 Erik Peterson - TDD w/Webforms

Architecture - 158
8:30 Edwin Ames - DotNet Basics - The Architect's Toolchest
10:00 Mitch Ruebush - Patterns for Building Rich Internet Applications
12:30 Jason Ipock - Beginning Architectural Patterns: Overview and Application
2:00 Sam Gentile - REST programming with WCF 3.5
3:30 Max Zilberman - Using Software plus Services

Business Intelligence - 110
8:30 Joe Toscano - SQL 2005 Data Mining
10:00 Kevin Goff - Using MDX with SQL Server Reporting Services and PerformancePoint Server 2007
12:30 Dan Hartshorn - PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics Deep Dive
2:00 Melissa Demcsak - SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: A Beginner’s Primer on Loading Data Marts
3:30 Panel - Ask the Experts panel discussion

MIX - 111
8:30 Rachel Appel - Creating Responsive UI’s with ASP.NET AJAX
10:00 Tony Lombardo - Introduction to the WebDataGrid
12:30 Jim Wooley - Building Data Driven Web Sites with Visual Studio 2008 and LINQ
2:00 room 112 Bill Wolff - Building Silverlight 2.0 Applications
2:00 Kevin Hazzard - Mixing Static and Dynamic .NET Languages
3:30 room 102 Jess Chadwick - Building Rich Web Interfaces with ASP.NET MVC and JavaScript
3:30 Todd F. Snyder - Distributed Silverlight Development (WCF, JSON, Etc…)

Framework - 108
8:30 John Baird - Beginning Compact Framework Development
10:00 Andy Schwam - Make the switch to LINQ - working with data will never be the same!
12:30 Steve Andrews - Writing Awesome Code with Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition
2:00 Jason Gaylord - Talk: MVC from Start to Blog
3:30 Chris Rolon - LINQ to Entities

SharePoint - 113
8:30 Tony Testa - SharePoint Search
10:00 Paul Galvin - Invoking Web Services from an InfoPath Form
12:30 Panel - Ask the Experts panel discussion
2:00 Michael Mukalian - SharePoint Features and Solutions
3:30 Terry Yarnall - Real World SharePoint 2007 Experiences

SQL Database - 109
8:30 Sharon Dooley - New SQL Server 2008 DBA Toys: Part 2
10:00 David Penton - Increasing Developer Productivity With SQL Server
12:30 Barry Young - The Top Ten Reasons You Aren’t Already Using Service Broker
2:00 Joshua Lynn - Practical XML for SQL Server
3:30 Hilary Cotter - SQL Server Performance Tuning

Toolbox - 106
8:30 Jonathan Newell - Amazon S3/ASP.NET/URL writing
10:00 Ben Greenberg - Building Deployment Packages with WiX
12:30 Travis Laborde - Code Cleanup: Patterns, Practices, and Tools for Crafting Better Software
2:00 Jason Meckley - Intro to the Rhino Tools stack
3:30 Jim Bonnie - Boldly going where some DNN modules have gone before

Enterprise Management - 105
8:30 Sathish TK - Building and Maintaining a High Availability Infrastructure
10:00 Doug Henry - System Center Configuration Manager
12:30 Conor Wentz - System Center Operations Manager
2:00 Jim Garrity - Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V with Virtual Machine Manager
3:30 Jim Garrity - Implementing VMware ESX Server with Virtual Center

IT Infrastructure - 102
8:30 Paul Begley - Exchange 2007
10:00 Laura Hunter - Leveraging Microsoft Identity Solutions
12:30 Rob Keiser - Hyper-V and SCVMM
2:00 Derek R. Flickinger + Ray Gabriel - Windows Media Center Development

 11:30 Social networking in the break room, Primo hoagies, drinks and snacks

5:00 evals, lots of raffle prizes