CodeCampSA 2007 - Day 1

7th July 2007

A really good day - great to see lots of people turning up.

Che Metcalf

• Talked about PodMo, a free mobile-based (eg. primarily bluetooth) network he is developing.
• Mega|SA - mobile applications incubator. Will have links to UniSA graduate certificate course next year.

David Gardiner

• I did my LINQ for SQL talk. I think it went ok.

Michael Baker

• Talked about Design By Contract
• Very interesting talk - I think I have a better understanding of this now, and can see how we might make use of this in our development processes.

Dave Glover

• Silverlight
• First time I’ve seen demos of PopFly - really nitfy.

Jey Srikantha

• Demonstrated K2 BlackPearl. A tool for Visio and Visual Studio that manages business process. Looks very comprehensive.

Mitch Denny

• Team Foundation Server, specifically using it for continuous integration
• Make use of virtualisation when deploying TFS.
• Use TFS Integrator to automate builds
• Use TFS Deploy to automate deployment

Paul Turner

• Microsoft CRM

Dave Glover (filling in for Jeff Headley)

• Expression Web - the next version of FrontPage.
• Better standards support and some nice enhancements.