Today marked the day of the inaugural Utah Code Camp.  Brainchild of Pat Wright, the event was a great success.  From the beginning our goal was to have about 100 people in attendance, but despite having just around 90 registrants, only about 40-45 showed (I don't know the number accurately and am only guessing here).  Regardless, we all had a great time.

We had three tracks resulting in 15 presentations throughout the day from various volunteers and participants.  For instance, I had the opportunity to provide the keynote presentation (which in reality was little more than a 'welcome, this is how you get to the bathrooms when you need to go' presentation) and a talk on developing custom WinForms components.  We delved into the innards of using Designers, Editors, and Extenders and (I believe) everyone had a great time.

Other presentations included topics on SQL Server Worst Practices, some XNA stuff, a presentation on DirectX, Test Driven Development using NUnit, NHibernate 1.2.0, Client/Server application development, and more.

I haven't had a chance to see the results of the reviews but it sure seemed like everyone had a great time; it was very well received.  We're working on putting another one together in 6-8 months again and will undoubtedly be looking for speakers - we'd love to have more!

A fun way to spend a Saturday!