Ready to connect with the local tech community for a good cause?

Give Camp needs your support. For one weekend in October, we’ll take on the technology wish lists of 10 non-profit organizations, and we’re looking for about 60 volunteers, both technical and non-technical, to help us do it.

http://southwestohiogivecamp.org   

We need:

·         Developers (any language)

·         Web and User Experience Designers

·         Data Base Administrators

·         Project Managers

·         Anyone who wants to help!

You will:

·         Create custom software for non-profit organizations

·         Donate your time

·         Work as part of a team and meet new colleagues

·         Share your skills and learn new ones

·         Walk away knowing that the world is a better place

When and where:

From 5pm on Friday, October 22 to 5pm on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at Miami University's Voice of America Learning Center in West Chester, Ohio (http://www.muohio.edu/voalc).

Are you a non-developer?
There are many ways that non-developers can help.

·         Before the event Business Analysts can help review the Charities requirements to help them organize their ideas and get them ready for the developers.

·         On the day of the event, volunteers are needed to help set out food, stocking the refrigerator, blogging, podcasting and generally just checking up on the teams to see how they’re doing.

·         The bottom line is – if you want to participate in a Give Camp event, we’ll find a way for you to do it!

To sign up, go to http://southwestohiogivecamp.org/Volunteer/Signup

Registration is now open for the Central Ohio Day of .NET. You don’t want to miss it. Register for this event now!

This event, for .NET developers, will be held in Wilmington, Ohio on April 18, 2009. Click here learn more about this event.

This was the first event that I attended last year. It was a great learning experience and the beginning of some great friendships. If you missed it last year, here’s a great video by Andy Erickson that recaps the day.

I attended the CINNUG meeting on June 24, 2008. Tim Wingfield was the guest speaker. The topic was MVC and this is one I also missed at CODODN . Tim gave a good explanation of MVC and it's history.

Tim also had great TDD demos. He really showed each step of the process (the behind the scenes) to creating your test. He then walked through the results of the test after running the program. It was interesting to see the testing process. It gave me a totally different perspective of the application.

I can see how this would initially take time to set up the testing environment but it can also save tons of time at the end. You wouldn't have to do such rigorous testing because you've already tested your functions as they were being built. This could also catch errors better than traditional testing. Each section of the application that you are creating will be associated with a test.

I know I'm not on this level yet but still enjoyed the presentation and seeing more of the MVC framework. This reinforced what I learned from Alan Steven's MVC talk at IndyCodeCamp.

I was glad to finally meet Tim face-to-face because I've followed him on Twitter since the CODODN event. It was also WAY cool to hang out at Claddagh's after the meeting with a few local tweeps.

It felt really good to just sit back and talk to people that are interested in the same things I am interested in. I can talk about things that I do without getting the "oh boy, I hope this isn't one of the 'nerd' talks again" or the "I have no idea what you talking about" stare.

Update: Leon Gersing also gave a quick presentation at the end of the meeting. He discussed separation of responsibilities. I'm really embarrassed that I neglected to add this information. Even though it was a brief presentation it really got me focused. Many apologies to Leon. :)