I hinted a while back at some exciting things Wrox is trying to do in the .NET community with CodeCamp. We know not everyone has a codecamp near by. When know not everyone can go. We know not everyone can afford more expensive conferences and travel like tech ed. So, we're bringing the best of CodeCamp to you on wrox.com.
Today we have the first results of this for you to see. In cooperation with Atlanta CodeCamp, we have on wrox.com a 68 minute video of Jean-Luc David's "Extending Visual Studio 2005 Team System" presentation. Jean-Luc is also the lead author of Wrox's Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System.
The video is a screen capture with Jean-Luc's audio as he presented this. In keeping with CodeCamp philosophy, the presentation was almost all hands on coding. He started out with about 5 minutes of PPT introduction and then stayed in VS team System showing and writing code for the remainder of the hour plus presentation.
He have a couple more of these videos recorded and in the pipeline and more on the way. In the next few weeks look for additional videos from:
- Jim Wooley from Atlanta Code Camp on LINQ
- Wally McClure from Atlanta Code camp on Atlas
- Scott Hanselman from Beantown.net user group
Many thanks and credits to:
- Thom Robbins and the uber-CodeCamp people for agreeing to let us be a part of their success and do this
- Jim Wooley, Brendon Scwartz and the rest of the Atlanta Code Camp and Atlanta .NET Regular Guys for putting on a great CodeCamp and letting us use their event as a guinea pig
- Jim Wooley, Wally McClure, and Jean-Luc David for coming through with almost no notice and trying this for me
- Robert Scoble and Channel9: Your site was the inspiration for this.
- Derek Comingore, Wrox author and hosting.com employee, for being a good guy and for introducing me to Jonathan at hosting.com to broker the deal for their excellent hosting service.
- After I had this under way, I saw another code camp presenter who had posted his own video of his presentation. I can't find the link at the moment, but if anyone knows who that was, or if their are more, let me know and I'll give them props here.
It was a pleasure to work with you and get this project off the ground. We would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge Camtasia for their recorder to actually produce the videos and save the costs of hiring a recording crew to pull this together. see http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp. I hope this is just the start of more great initiatives on your part.
Posted by: Jim Wooley | June 09, 2006 at 03:53 PM