ComponentOne sponsors Code PaLOUsa : recap

Code PaLOUsa 2013 was a great event and one to put on your radar for next year. It’s a two day event, with an optional pre con day. I got to tell you, this was an extremely well organized event with many great speakers and sessions. Not to mention it is held in Louisville, home of the Louisville Slugger museum! I actually bolted there right form the airport in time to catch the last tour of the day. I love baseball history. The tour sent chills up my spine with a walk down memory lane. I’ve been to the the Baseball Hall of fame in Cooperstown, the Ted Williams hitter museum in Florida and this one completes the trifecta. Speaking of the trifecta, the weekend we were there, the first weekend in May, marked the start of all of the festivities leading up to the Kentucky derby, including hot air balloon races and the marathon. It was my first time in Louisville and was awesome with the smell of spring in the air. Great job to Chad Green and all of the conference organizers. It was a great weekend to catch up with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, they added value to the conference, doing the keynotes and the 64 bit game show prize giveaway at the end of the event. It was very entertaining and informational. They also recorded a live .NET Rocks show about Windows 8. Carl’s keynote on “What a Long Strange it’s Been”, is a classic. I did a session on “Building a Windows 8 app from scratch”’ and showed off some of the store app controls in our Studio for WinRT/XAML. I think C1 needs to get a Star Wars pinball machine too, huh? Photos for Code PaLOUsa