Boise Code Camp 2008 - Sessions and Materials

David is Chief Software Architect for Healthwise, Inc. and is a principal contributor at ElegantCode.com. Addition, David often works with organizations to effectively drive operational change through the adoption of Agile practices. He is primarily focused on the Microsoft stack and is a certified Scrum Master and a signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Welcome to Code Camp!

Mr. Frazer, of counsel to Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley LLP, is a member of the Business and Finance Practice Group. His intellectual property practice includes Internet law, e-commerce, technology and software licensing, trademarks and domain names, copyright, media law, computer law, trade secrets, and related transactional work and litigation.
A Boise native, Mr. Frazer began his legal career in 1989 as an intellectual property attorney and commercial litigator at the Boise-based law firm of Elam and Burke. In 1997 he accepted an in-house position as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel with the Fortune 1000 company, Micron Electronics, Inc., and remained there through the company’s merger with Interland, Inc., (now Web.com), then the nation’s largest Web hosting company. He eveftually became Deputy General Counsel for Micron Electronics, Inc. and Interland, Inc.
From June 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Frazer served as Deputy General Counsel to EPC Computers, LLC, in Nampa, Idaho, a major hardware OEM (“Original Equipment Manufacturer”), where he managed its intellectual property, purchasing, IT (“Information Technology”), and licensing concerns. Immediately prior to joining Hawley Troxell, Mr. Frazer acted as Senior Counsel to Technology Law Group, LLC, an IP boutique law firm in Boise, Idaho.
Mr. Frazer has written extensively on matters of Internet and intellectual property law and is also an active blogger on similar topics at Internet Lawyer Blog A frequent speaker on Internet, intellectual property, and computer law topics, his most recent presentations have addressed Open Source licensing, Internet trademark and brand protection, Internet copyright issues, e-commerce legal issues, and electronic contracting. He is also a guest lecturer at Boise State University and Northwest Nazarene University on intellectual property law and Internet ethics.

Anthony has been developing and managing software projects for over 25 years and has the both the banners and battle scars to prove it. He has a passion for continues learning and improvement which he enjoys infecting others with. He resides out west in Eugene Oregon where he runs his own software consulting firm helping clients up and down the state.

Leslie Kelly Hall is a recognized executive in the healthcare information technology industry and has over 20 years experience in IT, marketing, sales, call centers and product development. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Product Development for Healthwise. Previously, she worked for Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center as Vice President of Information Technology, CIO where she created award winning information technology including Business Week's "Top 100 Web Smart" award. Her efforts in patient portals have helped to transform the hospital/patient/provider relationship and to engage patients in self care management. She also served as Vice President of Marketing & Communications with responsibility to rebuild the marketing department and brand strategy. Hall's ability to imagine, design, implement and sustain innovative systems is widely recognized in Healthcare IT.

I am a former restaurateur turned geek. I left my 15 year career in the restaurant business to earn a BS of CS from ISU and pursue a career in the zany, fun-filled world of software engineering. I am currently an Enterprise Data Warehouse ETL Developer for a Fortune 500 company in Boise, ID. My projects lately have used a combination of Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, Perl and some other IBM tools that shall remain nameless. I am a father of four and a husband of one. I have one child in elementary school, one in Jr. high, one in high school, and one in college – we didn't even plan that. My wife is also in college which kinda makes me feel like a slacker. My family and I have lived in Boise for nearly two years – and we love it here. The winters are mild, the air is clean, and there are hardly any murders.

Floyd Bird is a professional author, writer, and software developer with more than 20 years of experience. He has written three publications on certification for computing professionals. He has published commercial multimedia software for candidates seeking certification in the computing profession. He is currently focused on SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Web development with ASP.net and AJAX. Outside of computers, Floyd enjoys snowmobiling, four-wheeling, motorcycling, doing home improvements, doing yard work, and grilling on the barbie. When he isn't doing those things, he's enjoying the family and his two beagles, Missy and Brook.

Richard Hundhausen is a software architect, developer, author, and trainer with Accentient. He has over 23 years of software and database development experience and over 17 years of training and presentation experience. His primary area of evangelism is the ever-expafding intersection between .NET and SQL Server development and, as a result, became a Microsoft Regional Director in 2004. Richard’s most recent technical book is "Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System", for Microsoft Press. Writing this book, and his incessant work in the developer community, continues to earn him the Visual Studio Team System MVP award. Richard lives in Boise, Idaho. Follow his journey at http://blog.hundhausen.com.

Mark Miller is a C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark is a member of INETA and a popular speaker at conferences around the world and has been writing software for over two decades.

Aaron does optimization work for the company-formerly-known-as-Albertsons. "We can make it faster, stronger, better..” This includes a smidge of QA, a dash of development, a sprinkling of systems administration, and a whole lot of herding cats. He also builds castles, buggies, and other contraptions for his 3 kids and blogs (very unevenly) at www.itgroundhog.com.

Nearly 10 years as Programmer/Analyst for Treetop Technology/Mobile Dataforce. 12 years working for state government as Computer Based Training Specialist, Network Specialist, Programmer.

Clint Tinsley is a System Engineer with HealthCast of Boise, wwww.gohealthcast.com, where besides taking care of the network infrastructure, he is a member of the Agile development team and is responsible for the virtualization environment for product testing which includes SMS 2003. With over 25 years of experience including developing software, Clint has been active participant in the Boise user community as past President of the Idaho PC Users Group, and founder of the Boise Linux Group, wwww.boiseLUG.org.

Clint Tinsley is a System Engineer with HealthCast of Boise, wwww.gohealthcast.com, where besides taking care of the network infrastructure, he is a member of the Agile development team and is responsible for the virtualization environment for product testing which includes SMS 2003. With over 25 years of experience including developing software, Clint has been active participant in the Boise user community as past President of the Idaho PC Users Group, and founder of the Boise Linux Group, wwww.boiseLUG.org.

PHP5 web developer at Keynetics Inc. in downtown Boise. Masters in Computer Science from Boise State University with an emphasis in parallel and distributed computing.

Craig Berntson a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and has been a Microsoft MVP for over 10 years. He wrote the book “CrysDev: A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports”, available from Hentzenwerke Publishing. He has also written for FoxTalk and the Visual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) newsletter. He has spoken at various developer events in North America and Europe. Currently, Craig develops hospital software for a Fortune 100 company in Salt Lake City.

Jacque Istok, a principal with PII, is a visionary technologist. He began his career as a technology consultant while pursuing a dual major of Computer Science and Philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Early in his career he was instrumental in helping architect the largest retail data warehouses at the time. He went on to join two VC funded startups, playing a key role in each, helping them develop their infrastructure and create their technical strategy. He was a leader in integrating new and emerging warehouse and reporting technologies for direct application to businesses.
In 2001 he formed Professional Innovations, Inc. (PII) to address the growing demand for business intelligence and it's integration with new and emerging technologies. He has direct experience with numerous programming languages, hardware infrastructures and 3rd party tools. He is a technical advisor to the current projects underway at PII and is instrumental in creating new opportunities for PII to showcase how technology can be utilized in business.

Jake has been developing ColdFusion based applications since ColdFusion 4. He is well known for building CFQuickDocs (http://cfquickdocs.com). He has given numerous presentations to various user groups, including the popular CF Meetup group. Jake is very passionate about the Internet, particularly about web standards and surrounding technologies.

Jeremy has dabbled in programming as a hobby since his high school days, and now works in a position where his programming skills are put to use. He programs in Java and Delphi, and uses Subversion on a daily basis.

I have been a software engineer for 18 years. I have worked in many languages including Fortran, C, C++, C# and Java. I am currently working at Cretaceous Software working on SOA tools. In my free time I have been playing with Google's Android, their cell phone operating system. When now working with computers, I like brewing beer or riding on my Harley.

A favorite camp counselor and director from previous Boise Code Camps, Jim McKeeth has returned after his move to the Pacific Northwest to present once again at the Boise Code Camp. Prior to moving to the coast, Jim lived in the Treasure Valley where he developed software professionally for well over 15 years, ran past Boise Code Camps, and the Boise Software Developers Group. Jim has also presented at the Seattle Code Camp and is also a published author, trainer and blogger. He is currently a software developer at WideOrbit's Seattle office working on their code product line. WideOrbit provides infrastructure software for the media and advertising industry.

A favorite camp counselor and director from previous Boise Code Camps, Jim McKeeth has returned after his move to the Pacific Northwest to present once again at the Boise Code Camp. Prior to moving to the coast, Jim lived in the Treasure Valley where he developed software professionally for well over 15 years, ran past Boise Code Camps, and the Boise Software Developers Group. Jim has also presented at the Seattle Code Camp and is also a published author, traifer and blogger. He is currently a software developer at WideOrbit's Seattle office working on their code product line. WideOrbit provides infrastructure software for the media and advertising industry.

Senior Developer with many years of experience in developing Enterprise Applications

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he worked in eFinance for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant a Microsoft Partner for nearly 7 years. He was also involved in a few things like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen to him. He's written in a few books, most recently Professional ASP.NET 3.5 with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com and contributes to http://www.asp.net, http://www.windowsclient.net, and http://www.silverlight.net

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Mark is lead SharePoint developer and project manager for Miicor Consulting. He has led customer implementations using collaboration products such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and Lotus Notes. Mark has also managed large-scale e-commerce projects for clients such as Del Monte Foods and HJ Heinz.

Work for Blackfin Technology for the last year doing SharePoint development. Prior to working for Blackfin, freelanced for 10 years as a 3D/2D artist and a developer in everything .NET, with an emphasis on SharePoint for the last 5 years.

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he worked in eFinance for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant a Microsoft Partner for nearly 7 years. He was also involved in a few things like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen to him. He's written in a few books, most recently Professagnal ASP.NET 3.5 with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com and contributes to http://www.asp.net, http://www.windowsclient.net, and http://www.silverlight.net

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My professional experience started in 1982 with VAX'es and pdp-11's related to real-time data acquisition, processing and analysis. A strong drive for learning resulted in a diverse background on a variety of systems and software platforms ranging from aforementioned VAX/pdp11's, UNIX servers and lesser known environments such as EDIFY and Aspect phone systems, including work done in SysAdmin/DBA/Database and Software Development, the usual stuff. Currently I am building a small business providing consulting services related to business web applications - an interesting learning experience. It provides me opportunity to code to pay bills, while giving me the freedom to pursue various studies, so my interests at times stray into different arenas before my "pay the bills" side yanks me back. The main disadvantage: you still have to deal with the usual bulljive related to running a small business. The solutions are developed on the Microsoft stack/products, which does not necessarily exclude past work related to other environments. With last year's release of .NET 3.5, Vis Studio 2008, Silverlight, etc., there are plenty of interesting projects planned! On a personal note, I was an avid diver/surfer and used to have a freezer full of seafood (lobster, anyone?). While it is hard to surf at Lucky Peak, there are still some dive spots one can find in the local area and I guess other water sports will have to do. I now have a freezer full of trout and kokanee.

I am a Programmer/Analyst for Treetop Technology/Mobile Dataforce. I am also the President of the Boise Software Developers Group (bsdg.org), I am on the Board of Directors of the Boise .Net Developers Group (netdug.com), and I am on the organizing committee of Boise Code Camp. I used to have a specialty in something, but now do a bit of everything with the .Net Framework and C#. WebForm, WinForm, Services, SQL Server, Analysis Service, Unit Testing, Design Patterns, Best Practices, etc. In my spare time trolling various ALT.NET user groups, play with JavaScript Libraries and open source ORMs like SubSonic. You can follow along at my various blogs: chrisbrandsma.com and ElegantCode.com.

I am a Programmer/Analyst for Treetop Technology/Mobile Dataforce. I am also the President of the Boise Software Developers Group (bsdg.org), I am on the Board of Directors of the Boise .Net Developers Group (netdug.com), and I am on the organizing committee of Boise Code Camp. I used to have a specialty in something, but now do a bit of everything with the .Net Framework and C#. WebForm, WinForm, Services, SQL Server, Analysis Service, Unit Testing, Design Patterns, Best Practices, etc. In my spare time trolling various ALT.NET user groups, play with JavaScript Libraries and open source ORMs like SubSonic. You can follow along at my various blogs: chrisbrandsma.com and ElegantCode.com.

I am Software Architect and have been developing software for over 26 years. Before that I spent my senior year in high school in 1978 programming a elf II microprocessor in machine language to provide the software to track an eclipse in real time. In addition I spent my last year at Caldwell High School taking classes at the College of Idaho as part of the schools gifted and talented program. This gave me time to use their state of the art PDP 11/23 running DEC’s Advanced Basic and RSTS/E. A whole 8K of memory, man. I found I liked writing programs and went off to Washington State two years later to start my life as a computer geek.
I present frequently at the Boise .Net Developers User Group www.netdug.com and sometimes at various Microsoft functions.

Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creatiof of P&P client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches" with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture and technology direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture and systems integration. He resides with his wife and daughter in Seattle (his other passion).

Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creation of P&P client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches" with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture afd technology direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture and systems integration. He resides with his wife and daughter in Seattle (his other passion).