I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More than 600 attendees arrived to watch 72 sessions spread across 12 tracks! That's just an incredible amount of variety and opportunity. I presented Transactional Replication for Beginners and had a good sized crowed for a .Net centric event, about 30 attendees, that asked some really good questions. My friend Chris Rock did a presentation on Linq to SQL (more on Linq in an upcoming post!) that had more than 70 attendees, it's clearly a hot topic among developers.

We (End to End Training that is) sponsored the speaker party on Friday night and that was a lot of fun, got to meet a lot of new people outside of my usual Orlando circle. We had some great conversations about the life of a DBA, Linq, HTTP endpoints, and more. Very nice group of people! We started about 5 pm and wrapped up about 9 pm, then ended up talking for another hour to a bunch of speakers that ended up staying at the same hotel we did. We did a raffle on Saturday for people that came by our table to chat and gave away a very nice 22" flat panel monitor. We had hoped to be raffling off the OLPC laptop we ordered, but it had not arrived yet and besides, what geek doesn't lust for a bigger monitor?