I have to tip my hat to Doug Greene and Matthew Hughes of the Lower Alabama .NET User Group for doing such an excellent job with this Code Camp. You would have never known it was their first time to organize one, as things went off amazingly well. Good call on the ice cream, too, Doug. I could never find that place again, but it will always hold a special place in my heart ;-)

It was great to see three DEs come support the event, including Joe Healy, Brian Hitney, and some other DE. Joe wowed the crowd (as usual) with a great overview of Orcas, and Brian gave an outstanding drilldown into Vista’s architecture.

We also had a load of great speakers there, and I’m sure to forget someone and offend them if I try to list them all. The full list is here.

I will say that I did enjoy Robert Cain’s SQL talk and Bruce Thomas’s mobile apps talk (note that is mobile and in mobility, not as in the city J ). Robert Cain gets credit for the world’s smallest font on his site J

And I have to mention a few guys that I met in person for the first time. Tony Lombardo of Infragistics made the long haul from New Jersey, and we enjoyed hanging out. I also was able to resolve my Keith Elder pointer to an actual object. I’ve met Keith, and emailed Keith, but did not realize they were the same guy.

Wally McClure held an impromptu roundtable, and hopefully we didn’t make too big a mess of it J. Wally also took some pics of the code camp.

And I would be remiss if I didn’t compliment Todd Miranda on surviving his pyro-maniacal childhood. I had no idea you could blow that much stuff up and make it to adult-hood.