Desert Code Camp was on Saturday and it was the biggest group of web geeks in one place that I’ve ever seen.
At Desert Code Camp anyone can volunteer to present any topic they want (as long as it’s related to code) and then you pick which sessions you want to go to and you show up. It’s free, you can learn some pretty sweet stuff and you get to meet other web developers so it’s pretty cool.
The camp had 8 time slots with 9 different sessions in each slot so you had to pick and choose which 1 of the 9 sessions you wanted to go to for each slot. The sessions were about an hour long and for the most part I was really impressed with the presenters and the wide range of topics. Whenever the next one is I think I’ll sign up to present one of the sessions.
Anyone know when the next one is? I couldn’t find a date for it on their site.
5 Comments
Wow, those sessions must’ve been great. Which did you do?
Posted by Henry on Oct 30, 2006.
Yeah I guess I should have included that. I went to:
XHTML
What’s different about Ruby
Introduction to Ajax
Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Advanced CSS
Why Your User Interface Sucks and What You Can Do About It
Posted by Mattbob on Oct 30, 2006.
That’s the one I would’ve done if I was there. Did you learn a lot?
Posted by Henry on Oct 30, 2006.
Yeah I learned a few new things about Ruby and AJAX and the Interface session was very well done. I’ve heard the guy who spoke at that session before at a Refresh meeting and he’s just an amazing speaker.
Posted by Mattbob on Oct 30, 2006.
[…] James is another Refresher and an expert with Ruby. He presented the Getting Ruby session at the Desert Code Camp and was the developer of the famous and extremely accurate Web 2.0 Validator. James also runs the Ruby-Doc.org website and works at Neurogami, LLC. […]
Posted by Mattbob | Interview with James Britt on Nov 1, 2006.