I went with my team mate to a CodeCamp organized in Cracow. This edition was at 17th October 2009 in the Computer Science Institute Building at the Jagiellonian University Campus. I took registration process right after it was started and had one of the latest numbers so interest of this event was big.

We left from Wroclaw at 5 pm and arrived at Cracow at 8 pm. Finding correct building was very easy because information on page was quite clear. I was a little bit frustrated about fact that inside the building wasn’t information, no poster, not a single sign about upcoming event. For our luc ky the building was not so big and we found the session rooms at the first floor. Before starting everyone had to confirm his present. I got identification plate with my name and information about chosen sessions.

First session “The Daily Scrum” started at 9pm. The speakers Stephen Forte and Remi Caron were talking about one of the most popular Agile project management and development method – Scrum. Whole show was very interesting and pay attention to audience. Speakers sense of humor made it really comfortable to listen. After fast part had come time for asking question. For each you got a t-Shirt, I owe one form Steve. The funny part is that guy form Telerik company was distributing DevExpress t-shirts, he realized this later.

All sessions except the first one were parallel in two rooms. In registration process you could decide in which you want to participate I choose “.NET Rocks panel discussion – Agile“. Formula of this session was quite different then all others. Five guys: Stephen Forte, Remi Caron, Chris Sells, Richard Campbel and Carl Franklin made discussion panel about loosely chosen topics. They didn’t talk about Agile as it was planned but had conversation about Kindle, future of e-book, Applie business politics, DRM and lot of interesting topics. Because whole session was recorded you will be able to listen this soon at .NET Rocks.

Next session I was present was presented by Chris Sells about “Data for Developers: Today and Tomorrow“. It contained basic information about data storage and a little introduction how you can use Entity Framework to easily maintain and deploy database changes.

“Functional Programming in F#” introduces by Oliver Sturm was very interesting cause I don’t know a lot about it. I was a little bit disappointed when he missed syntax basics because he talke about it on previous session I was absent. I learned pure functions philosophy which is quite different then anything I heard before. I decided to stay for Oliver next session about “Concurrency using functional patterns in C#” where he described the possibility of usage multi-core CPU in C# and present parallel programming examples. Personally I think this is the future of development.

I missed last session cause have 300 km ahead (2,5 h) to Wroclaw. Whole CodeCamp was interesting event with professional world known speakers. It was worth to see to have idea about future of many .NET ways Microsoft is trying to reach. I believe that parallel programming is something I want to pay attention for. F# introduction made me start thinking about functional programming and its usability.

More information you can see on CodeCamp web site.