Over the last few months I've spoke at 4 different events and have really enjoyed myself but I hadn't got around posting my presentations and code projects because other things kept me busy and I kept forgetting to.  This week I'm at home finishing up some code projects and have found some extra time to spend on my blog and catching up on other things.

Today I got around adding a new page to my blog for the presentations and code projects and just a few minutes ago uploaded all my presentations.  You can find them at http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/pages/code-camp-and-user-group-presentations.aspx and later this week I'll add my code projects to.  I've really enjoyed speaking at these events and meeting a lot of new people.  I'm hoping that I'll have a lot more entries on this page this year and mean years to come.

Cheers

The Philly.Net Code Camp is coming up on Saturday, January 12^th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA and I'm happy to say that I will be giving a presentation at the event.  The presentation is titled "InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008".  The session walks through building a new InfoPath 2007 form, Web Service, .NET Class, Workflow and LDAP query with Visual Studio 2008.  The form will call the web service on opening to retrieve the current user Active Directory information and State list from SQL 2005 database to populate an InfoPath form drop down list.   A simple workflow will be created and deployed with Visual Studio 2008 for sending an email.  This presentation will cover more details than what I usually do and it will all be using Visual Studio 2008 and not 2005.  Information on attending and a list of all the tracks for the code camp can be found at http://www.philly.net.

In my opinion the Office track is jammed pack with great sessions and we have Bob Fox doing a session on SharePoint Disaster Recovery and Backup (Wow can't what to see what type of code Bob has).  A full list of all the Office sessions is listed below.

David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more...
Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint
Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files

I'm really excited about this opportunity because it gives me another opportunity to meet new people and to work on my speaking and presentation skills.  The last 2 code camps were a blast and I'm sure this one will be to, please come out and join us for a great time talking about writing code (things we love to do) and meeting new people.

Cheers

The Nova Code Camp has come and gone and so has the Thanksgiving holiday.  Nas and I had a great time at the Nova Code Camp and we can't wait for the next one. It was a really good code camp for me because I got to meet some great new people and my session seemed to go really smooth and I have spotted some new areas where I can approve my code demo. The whole code camp thing is still really new to me and before going to them I was fearful that I wouldn't enjoy them but so far I've been totally wrong. Speaking and attending these code camps have given me the ability to open my mind and view things differently. It has also given me a new perspective on InfoPath and SharePoint and how to approach and tackle problems that I have in the work place. Overall it has been a great experience and I can't wait to continue down this path and see what else comes from it. At some point the presentations will be added to the http://novacodecamp.org/ website and if you have any interest in what happened I would definitely go check them out.

While at the code camp I got to meet Jeff Schoolcraft (http://thequeue.net/blog) the guy that organized the event and we had some great conversations about many different topics. During one of the conversations he mentioned http://www.community-credit.com/ website and I told him that I never heard of it before and he said that I should check it out. The next day I did and I must say that it's a pretty interesting site and I thought it was worth passing along.

Since the Nova Code Camp is over I've started getting ready for the NJ SharePoint User Group meeting that I'll be speaking at in December. The presentation will be a little different than the code camp presentation because I was told that I should focus more on slides and content then code but I'll still be talking about InfoPath, InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint. Once I get the official date and time from either Jason Medero or Bob Fox then I'll pass it along but I do know that it's in the third week of December and I'm pretty sure it's on Wednesday. Hope to see some of you there.

Cheers