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Checkout What Sessions are HOT by Number People Interested!

Posted by Peter Kellner on July 20, 2010 @ 8:45 PM

Now that we’ve got over 100 sessions up on the site and over 600 people registered, it’s starting to get interesting to see what the hot sessions are.  If you go to the sessions page now, you can see how many people have registered interest in different sessions. 

For example,  Douglas Crockford, back for his 5th year already has 106 people indicating they want to see him and his session on JavaScript.

If you go to the session page, you’ll see all sessions with their interest level just like this:

 

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If you log into the site with your registered name, you can go and click the radio button “Interested” next to each session you wish to let us know you are interested in. 

Several people have asked why they can not press “Will Attend”.  Well, the reason is we don’t enable that until we’ve made our final schedule with room assignments.  At that time, we will enable that button (and disable the Interested radio button).  We also only let you chose one at a give time slot.  That doesn’t mean you can’t go to another session, it just means that we want to know where you will likely go for room size planning purposes.

Also, a side note is that when you select that you are interested, you get no feedback besides the radio button is checked.  We don’t update the number until after you refresh the page.  This makes selecting sessions very quick, but possibly a little confusing.  Hopefully, we’ll fix that in an upcoming release.

See you at Camp!

Topic Suggestion Box For Presentations Live on Our Wiki!

Posted by Peter Kellner on July 13, 2010 @ 12:45 PM

Kim Greenlee has put together a Suggestion Box where anyone can put in a suggestions for presentations.

http://codecamp.pbworks.com/Suggestion-Box

Code camp is by developers for developers.  With this page you can tell others what you are interested in.  What topics / ideas / etc… would you like to explore or have more information on?   Are there companies with technologies that you think should be approached and asked to send speakers?  

We want to hear more about your learning interests.

Write up your topics, post them here, and maybe someone will decide to give a talk on it.  Maybe the company will see your interest and send a speaker.   Take 10 minutes to tell us what you want.    This is code camp so there are no guarantees you’ll get your topic, but we can guarantee that if you don’t tell people what you want to learn more about…you are much less likely to get it.

Come to our Wiki and enter some suggestions!  who knows, maybe some speaker is on the edge and this may push them over, or maybe it will spark interest from someone who knows the topic and they’ll make an effort to come because they know they are wanted.

Don’t forget, you need to create an account on the wiki before you can post your suggestions.

Looking For About 25 People I Can Ask To Test Code Camp Web Site Features On

Posted by Peter Kellner on July 7, 2010 @ 7:59 PM

As many of you know, I authored the web site used here at Code Camp.  When I first wrote it, I was a relative newbie at building web sites in general and specifically using Microsoft’s ASP.NET.  I believe I was running a beta of Visual Studio 2005 at the time.  At any rate, as I add features, I realize I don’t have a group of people I can email and ask for feedback (mostly, stuff like does this work, is it fast enough, are you having problems, etc. 

 

For now, if you send me an email to service@siliconvalley-codecamp.com and put in the subject “Please Include Me As an SVCC Tester”, I’ll put you on a short list and send you occasional email asking for feedback. 

 

You are probably wondering what motivates this now (and not in the last 5 years).  We are currently having some scattered issues around logging in and out of the site.  I plan to ask about that in my first email with some more details.

 

To be honest, I don’t know if I’m going to hear back from 3 of  you or 3000.  If it’s 3000, then you likely won’t hear back from me, but if it’s less than 25, you will all hear from me.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

By the way, I did do a series on some of the features built into the web site. That series is at this URL: 

 

http://peterkellner.net/2008/05/13/codecampwebsiteseries1/

 

-Peter Kellner

Email Sent To All Past People Registered For Code Camp

Posted by Peter Kellner on July 1, 2010 @ 11:42 AM

Silicon Valley Code Camp is Less Than 100 Days away! 75 Sessions     Up, Register Now!

 

Our countdown to Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothill College is moving forward! (less than 100 from now) We have 75 Sessions currently listed covering topics including .Net, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, Oracle, SharePoint, IPhone, Android, Scala, Ruby and many other hot technologies. Last year, we introduced tracks which went very well. Basically, tracks or curated by a track lead that brings together top presenters in a targeted technology. Each track has sessions presented in an order that makes sense throughout the day. Our first announced track for this year is HTML5 sponsored by Vertigo (and curated by Scott Stanfield). Keep an eye on this track to see the outstanding presentations). Other tracks will likely include Agile, Cloud, SharePoint and others.

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