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Thank you for registering for the philly.net 2008.2 Code Camp. Your are officially confirmed! The latest speaker agenda and partner list are shown below. Check back to the web site for the latest schedule changes. You will receive another reminder this week with further instructions.

Our second installment of the 2008 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, May 17 from 8:30-5:00. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site.

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

8:00 Registration, continental breakfast

Alt.NET - 141
8:30 Brian Donahue - Behavior Driven Development
10:00 Steve Eichert - IronRuby
12:30 David Laribee - Strategic Domain-Driven Design
2:00 Sebastian Meine, Dennis Lloyd - Database Test Driven Development
3:30 Erik Peterson - Model-View-Presenter w/WebForms

Architecture - 104
8:30 Chris Love - Front-End Performance tips and tricks for ASP.NET
10:00 Ken Lovely - Developing the Blueprint for Enterprise Data Architecture
12:30 Sam Gentile - Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures
2:00 Mitch Ruebush - Architect's Toolkit: What an Architect Needs to Know and Do
3:30 Steven Andrews - Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008

Business Intelligence - 109
8:30 Jim Pletscher - Getting Immediate Value from PerformancePoint Server 2007
10:00 Mark Scott - What’s new in Analysis Services for SQL Server 2008
12:30 Joe Toscano - Using the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Components to Build Budget/Forecasting
2:00 Andy Leonard - Change Data Capture, Incremental ETL, and SSIS 2008
3:30 Steve Mann - PerformancePoint Monitoring – A Behind the Scenes Look

MIX - 111
8:30 Jess Chadwick - The ASP.NET MVC Framework
10:00 Dani Diaz - Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight
12:30 Todd Snyder - UI Frameworks & Patterns: Applying Patterns to Build Applications
2:00 Bill Wolff - SharePoint 2007 Forms and Workflows
3:30 Milan Negovan - Usability

Framework - 105
8:30 John Baird - Winforms to WPF: Making the Switch
10:00 Kevin Goff - Crash Course on Windows Communication Foundation
12:30 Edwin Ames - Dot Net Basics
2:00 Chuck Urwiler - Using LINQ to SQL
3:30 Rachel Appel - Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data in Web Applications

SharePoint - 113
8:30 David Mann - Making SP Development Quick and Painless using Tools
10:00 Jim Kane - Putting SharePoint to Work - Enabling Communities of Users
12:30 Gary Blatt - Integrating Legacy Apps with SharePoint
2:00 Tony Testa - The SharePoint front-end is for wimps, real men use the SharePoint API's
3:30 Gary Blatt - Using Features to Modify the SharePoint Environment

SQL Database - 108
8:30 Sharon Dooley - New SQL 2008 DBA Toys
10:00 Josh Lynn - T-SQL Development Techniques for Performance
12:30 Mike Welsh - Cursors vs. Set Logic: Alternatives to Cursors
2:00 Dan Hartshorn - What DBAs need to know about BI
3:30 Greg Brozovich - SQL Server Physical Database Design Strategies for Performance

Toolbox - 106
8:30 Al Nyveldt - Learning the ASP.NET provider model with BlogEngine.NET
10:00 Jonathan Newell - Source Code Analysis (SCA)
12:30 Travis Laborde - SRP/DI/IOC: Don't Leave Sub Main Without Them!
2:00 Don Demsak - Introduction to the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition
3:30 Rob Keiser - ADO.NET Data Services

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

5:00 evals, lots of raffle prizes