As I mentioned in a previous post, Bender and I made the insane drive to Richmond for the Code Camp on October 3rd. We both had two sessions on the schedule; he spoke on REST and WCF and I spoke on Castle ActiveRecord and Software Estimation.

I’ve attached the code for my ActiveRecord talk to this post. The archive contains everything you need to run the demo I showed at the camp (and at previous camps). I still enjoy giving that talk and I absolutely love seeing the “AHA!” moments when people realize that writing all the ADO.NET plumbing code is pointless.

My estimation talk went well, although I feel like there are still some tweaks I could make to the content. I’m giving that particular talk at a couple upcoming events: The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference in Grand Rapids and the Great Lakes .NET Users Group in Southfield, both in November.

Overall, the Richmond Code Camp was one of the best run events I’ve attended. Registration was smooth, I loved how they had the “wall of sessions” with abstracts, speaker bios and pictures of each speaker! They also had these outside each room which made it very easy for attendees to get more information before walking into a session. Kevin Hazzard, Justin Etheredge and the rest of the planners did an outstanding job putting this event on. If my schedule works out, I *will* be back.