I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp.  It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010.

There are a few changes for this camp.

New Web Site

The web site have been changed to accommodate history in the Desert Code Camps. This means that each Code Camp will have it’s own url, so you can see what sessions have taken place in the past.

This Desert Code Camp’s, 2010.2, url is http://nov2010.desertcodecamp.com and is ready to accept sessions.

May 2010 Desert Code Camp, 2010.1 Desert Code Camp, is http://may2010.desertcodecamp.com. I am in the process of adding in the Desert Code Camps from 2009. You can go to http://desertcodecamp.com to get the list of Code Camps that the site has.

New Location

Chandler – Gilbert Community College, will be hosting the event on their Pecos Campus.

• This facility is right off of the Loop 202 (SanTan Freeway) and Gilbert Road at the intersection of Gilbert Rd and Pecos Rd, in Chandler, AZ.
• The facility provides plenty of free parking
• There is free wifi with no requirements or software installed on your pc.
• There is a student center for socializing and networking.
• Modern facilities. In fact, Desert Code Camp will most likely take place in their brand new Ironwood Hall (IRN).
• Larger room sizes.  We will be able to hold several 120+ sessions.

Speaker Dinner

I am going to try and have a speaker dinner also at this Desert Code Camp.  The speaker dinner will take place on Friday night, pending a sponsor. More information will be provided when we get closer. If you want to sponsor the speaker dinner for about 40 people, send me an email at jguadagno @ sevdnug.org.

After Party

We are working with the City of Chandler, and local businesses downtown to have several after parties going on in Downtown Chandler after the Code Camp.  Downtown Chandler is approximately 3 miles away from Chandler – Gilbert Community College.

If you want to help, shoot me an email at jguadagno at sevdnug.org.

Back a while ago, I created a site to track events at the Microsoft MVP Global summit. I did this because there are so many after parties or events that happen at this summit as well as other conferences.  Well I put up a site to track events at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), it is PDCEvents.info

Check it out. I have already added the events two events to the site. 
Welcome Reception: http://bit.ly/pdc_1
Attendee Party:http://bit.ly/pdc_2

The site has lots of feeds available, here are some links for the site:
Home Page: http://bit.ly/PDCEvents
iCal Feed: http://bit.ly/PDCEventsCal
RSS Feed: http://bit.ly/PDCEventsRSS
Maps Feed: http://bit.ly/PDCEventsMap
Mobile Site: http://bit.ly/PDCEventsMobile

One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happen.  Most of the time it is difficult to get the word out about these events or even find out about them.  This sparked the creation of MVPSummitEvents.com. Now it is time for PDCEvents.info. From the site you can add events, create venues, display events, subscribe to the RSS feed or iCal feed, download an event to outlook or calendar client that can consume a .VCS file. Note: the creation of events and venues requires you to sign in using your Windows Live Id account, no information from Live is used within our site.

Site: http://pdcevents.info

RSS: http://pdcevents.info/rss.ashx

iCal: http://pdcevents.info/calendar.ashx

GeoRSS: http://pdcevents.info/map.aspx

If you tag events with #PDC10, they will appear on http://pdcevents.info/Flickr.aspx

Let me know what you think at jguadagno@sevdnug.org

I've been looking to PIMP my IDE by changing some of the colors to it.  I came across this post on DEvHammer which pointed http://frickinsweet.com/tools/Theme.mvc.aspx#. This web application allows you to create a Visual Studio theme based on three colors.

It is Frickin Sweet, as implied by the domain name.