Jim Zimmerman

I guess there has been a double booking of the Microsoft room for the 20th, so we had to move it to the 21st.  I hope you all can still make it.  we will all be speaking at Tampa Code Camp also on July 14th, so try to catch us there if you can also.  I will be showing some Silverlight and Ajax stuff at Tampa Code Camp.

I just got back from Jacksonville CodeCamp this weekend and was very impressed with how organized it was. My hats off to Dennis and Vinay along with the many volunteers that did such a good job with the Code Camp. If it wasn't for you guys, this would not be possible. I really like the people I meet in Jacksonville. It is always fun!

Wow was that a fun code camp! We had a few hiccups during lunch (no food left for people late to line like me), but that was taken care of with pizzas later from VisualGov, thanks.

There were so many good people that i met and it was so cool to meet some of the new speakers that are brave enough speak here in Florida. We also had some great speakers from out of town who flew all the way into Tampa. We really did appreciate that.

So, to those who attended my session on advanced atlas controls, i am going to let you download the code samples that i demonstrated, but I have newer code that is more robust and takes advantage of other new features of the toolkit as of today. So once that code gets properly tested, i will post the changes here.

Ok, I just realized that I have not blogged in almost a month. So if I still have any readers, you may be interested in what my sessions are about at Tampa Code Camp if you have already signed up. We are completely full, and then some. I have been so busy working on a control for the atlas toolkit that mimics a balloon behavior similar to netflix and the many other things i do in my day and night jobs. I am doing two sessions tomorrow at Tampa Code Camp, one on Code generation and the ohter on how to create an atlas control. I am refactoring the balloon behavior again and am anxious to get it out there. In the code generation session I am going to show you how we bult tampa code camp using codesmith tools. I have fallen in love with that software. I don't think in sql anymore. Pretty cool.

See you there!

Well when I got home from MIX06, the viruses were mixing at my home with my 3 kids. I thought I could avoid it, but this morning, it hit me like a brick. I won't get into to details. Lets just say its not a cold.

To make it up I will come and speak to the users group in Orlando sometime in the next few months on AJAX, Atlas and some other fun things I learned at MIX06.

I was really looking forward to seeing you all up in Orlando and look forward to seeing you in Tampa Code Camp this summer. I will talk to someone up in Orlando and see when would be a good time to speak to the users group up there.

Have a great day! Wish I was there and not in the bathroom!

Here are the links to download the libraries I showed in the demos today.

My Ajax 12

Anthem.net

Atlas

Ajax.net


Have fun building ajax applications! Its easier than you think.

I will be doing two session in fort Lauderdale on Feb 4th, 2006 at the Code camp down there. I am very excited to learn many new things that are out there now a days. There is so much that is new and exciting that my mind is already overloaded. This will be a great time to learn from people that have real world experience and meet some cool people that also like to code late on Friday nights, like I am tonight.

Here is a link to my session information
http://64.139.141.119/speakers.aspx?#ZIMMERMANJIM

Also here is the link to the actual code camp even itself
http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp

Hope to see you all there and for those that have never been to a superbowl party in Fort Lauderdale, you need to stick around the next day and hang out downtown. They block everything off and it becomes a street part with big screens. Lots of fun!

This one time at code camp (Jacksonville), my laptop screen went out before my presentation. I ran into this cool guy named Mike who worked for a large insurance company and told him that I was nervous to drive my presentation from the wall and not my laptop screen so I would not be able to face the audience. Plus my presentation was mostly code, so it was going to be very hard to drive the screen from the wall and present at the same time.

Then I thought, hey do you have a crossover cable? He said yea, actually I do. Then I asked if I could borrow his laptop and set up a network connection and then remote desktop to my laptop which had all of the code on it. I asked Dave to see if they had a monitor that had mulitple video out and he want to look for one.

Meanwhile, Mike and I go up to an empty room and figure out the way to remote desktop into my laptop and then I drive the session through his laptop. We get it to work about 15 minutes before my session.

Thanks Mike for your help and being there at the right time. Funny how things work sometimes.

Anyway, I had a fun time in Jacksonville and am looking forward to going to Tallahassee Code camp on Sept 24th. I hope to see you all there.

I had a great time in Jacksonville this last weekend. I really enjoyed meeting some very smart people. It was also cool to meet the folks at MSN who were also very smart and enlightening. For those of you that saw my code demos you already know that I cannot post my code for the build a car because of contract reasons, but you can download the other samples that I showed. I will also be posting a few real world examples of the code I did show for build a car shortly, just not in its entirety(sp). For now you can download my other two demos below on my previous post.

I had a great time meeting you all!

I will be posting my code samples for AJAX for ASP.NET 2.0 tomorrow, on Sunday. I really enjoyed meeting new developers to challenge my brain and joke around beer objects at the dotnet pub club.