On Saturday, March 29th, software developers from around the Metro DC area met to listen to presentations by over a dozen software experts. The presentations included a range of topics from new technologies being released by Microsoft to practices to improve quality and delivery management.

This event was free to the public and was hosted by Strayer University in Woodbridge, Virginia. Attendance was over 80, with some attendees coming from as far away as York County.

John Morales at Nova CodeCamp Event discussing AJAX Development

Jeff Schoolcraft and I coordinated this event, but it was the volunteers and speakers that donated their time that made this event a success. We were fortunate to receive sponsorship from several companies and organizations.

You can find out more about Nova CodeCamp at www.novacodecamp.org.

For those who attended my recent presentation, "XQuery for DBAs and Developers", at NovaSQL, you can find the files here.

NovaSQLNov2007.zip (958.63 KB)

NovaSQL is the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group. I would like to thank Jim Rotan and Jeremy Kadlec for the invitation to speak.

OK. I'm a slacker.

I promised to get this up back a month ago. Here is my powerpoint presentation on developing user defined aggregates in SQL Server 2005 using .NET CLR. I gave this presentation at the NovaSQL user group. The group is managed superbly by Jeremy Kadlec, who also does MS SQL Tips.

I gave a presentation on XQuery at the NovaSQL user group that meets in Vienna, Virginia.

Jeremy Kadlec and Brian Moran run a great program. The turnout was very good, too. Lots of SQL experts.

Do you know how you can tell if you are giving a presentation to people that are SQL experts? You can tell that they are when you try to do a SELECT statement, and you get the dreaded Invalid object name error. Before you can blink you hear twenty-thirty voices saying, "You're in the Master database!"

I had a great deal of fun talking about XQuery with a very savvy crowd.

Attached to this post are my PowerPoint slides from the presentation.