Come to Silicon Valley Code Camp October 3rd & 4th

I’ll be speaking again this year at Silicon Valley Code Camp! Only 37 days left to register: https://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

This free event will be at Foothill College again this year.  There are over 100 sessions currently listed covering topics including .Net, Java, JavaScript, Oracle, Facebook, Iphone, Scala, Ruby and many other technologies. There are already almost 800 people registered! Last year we had over a thousand people take over the college campus. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to explore new technologies and learn more about the ones you already work with.

I’ll be presenting at least two sessions:

• Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic and C#
• Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Office 2007

And I’ll probably show off more of my favorite Visual Studio 2010 features too ;-). There are also a ton of other awesome speakers and sessions. Including, Douglas Crawford, for a fourth year in a row, the inventor of JSON, will be presenting on the Good Parts of JavaScript. Bill Venners, Artima president will be doing a session on Scala and ScalaTest. Mike Van Riper, Founder and co-leader of JUG, will be presenting on Java Apps in the Google App Engine.  Lino Tadros, renowned author and speaker will be presenting on Silverlight 3. Plus a ton of other great topics from the developer community.

Register now. If you have registered, come back to the site and let us know what sessions you are interested in.

Hope to see you there!

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2009
  Sorry to trouble you with this question.  Is Microsot's love for VB taking a back seat to C#.  I am teaching myself LINQ and notice most of the materials in C#?  Even in th ebook store, most fo teh books these days are c# vs VB.net.  Should I switch to C#?

• Anonymous
  September 08, 2009
  Hi swLearningVB, Take a look at the VB LINQ samples here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb688088.aspx And the VBTeam's posts on the subject which are very helpful in learning the VB LINQ syntax: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/Converting+SQL+to+LINQ/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/LINQ+Cookbook/default.aspx Also check out the list of books on the VB Dev Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb897562.aspx I'd recommend this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933988169?ie=UTF8&tag=msdn-vb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1933988169 It contains C# examples in the book, but it also has VB code downloads and does a good job of talking about the differences in syntax in the languages. Personally I think it's a good idea to learn multiple langages. There's also F#, IronPython and IronRuby languages from Microsoft that you may want to learn as well depending on the type of development you do. Have fun, -B