What a day it has been today.

• Snowing (not as heavy as forecasted) in New York
• NYC Code Camp III
• My blog post of 2K9
• First post from my Netbook

I was quite excited to attend the code camp as I had attended few number of such events back in Nepal too organized by FOSS Nepal community. But this was a bit different in the sense that it was dedicated especially for .NET developers. The event was organized by ALT.NET user group of NYC with support for venue provided by Microsoft.

As I am quite interested about Test Driven Design and from some time I have been continuously trying to follow this approach of development (though I’m feeling a bit difficult / ackward). There were number of sessions / presentations going on by number of .NET geek in same time frame or rather say in parallel way. So users were needed to make choice about the subject of their interests. The session topics for first session (as scheduled) were:

• Building Data Synchronization Clients – Bill Wolff
• Garbage Collection, .NET Memory Allocation – Bill Robertson
• I Now Pronounce You W&W – Miguel Castro
• What is This ASP.NET MVC Thing? – Peter Laudati
• TDD in the Real World: Test-Driving the design of a Shopping Cart – Stephen Bohlen

But there were some cancellations of presentations due to the forecast of an extreme weather resulting in the on demand updating and mixing of sessions.

Of course, TDD being my choice, I was very much excited to hear from Mr. Bohlen‘s regarding Test Driven Design in the real world. But it did not go as expected due to presentation time limit and some unusual lengthy questions from audience side. It was quite disappointing for me because I was more curious about the later part of the slide and it never happened. But Mr. Bohlen will put the slide video (full one) in his blog so, no more disappointment now

Conclusion

Since I attended only two sessions in the code camp i.e about TDD and ASP.NET MVC, I was expecting more from this events. There were people having advance knowledge to NULL knowledge about these topics (TDD and MVC), so I guess it is what you expect in the events where audience of all levels are participating. But it was quite nice experience to see other developers in NYC area. And for the first time I also got chance to see Windows 7 running and there was no problem for at least hour or so (some good news for Microsoft at last). I guess Windows 7 did impress me but can’t be confirmed until I use it!