Well, what did I learn while at Code Camp last weekend.?

• Wellington .NET dev community is passionate and quite diverse
• Objective C is more smalltalk-ish than I realised from previous snippets I had seen
• Xcode IDE is less 'integrated' than Visual Studio
• I now know more about CRM and other Microsoft solutions
• A panel discussion (Usability or Security) can be fun when the audience participates
• How to make my code slightly more maintainable
• Code contracts gel with me more than Spec# did. and I like them
• F# continues to be awesome and yet awe-inspiring
• Sync framework looks like a good solution for occasionally connected apps, with a good set of functionality out of the box
• And I demoed a beta IDE in a beta VM on a beta OS (VS2010 in Windows Virtual XP on Windows 7)

Sponsors are awesome!

• Whitireia Community Polytechnic (in particular, the Bachelor of Information Technology staff) were very accommodating hosts
• Mindscape surprised by offering prizes of 2 LightSpeed licenses and one "bundle of everything"
• Microsoft NZ sent through prizes, and the Microsoft MVP Programme sponsored some of the costs
• INETA APAC, the International .NET Association also sponsored some of the costs
• Xero also sponsored towards the costs
• DTS provided internet for the weekend

Go Go Gadget. Karting!

I had fun at the go-karts. The winners of the team event were Simon and Bert: