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Link To 2006 CodeCamp
Silicon Valley Code Camp
"By and For the Developer Community"

Presenter


Mihai Nita
Mihai Nita has been working in the localization/internationalization field for more than 10 years now, and still learning. He tries to cover internationalization not only for C/C++ and Windows, but also for Java, C#, Mac OS, Linux/UNIX, web technologies, client/server, the life, the universe and everything :-) He has written numerous guides for internal use or for customers, covering best practice for internationalization and localization, development, building, single sourcing, and testing. He held presentations and classes on Java and XML internationalization, Web technologies internationalization, and single sourcing. Now he is doing more of the same as Globalization Architect at Adobe Systems, Inc.

http://www.mihai-nita.net/

Andres Almiray
Andres is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 7 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in many web and desktop application developments using the best of breed technology approach. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include software architecture, developer testing, Groovy, Spring, AOP and swing hacks.

http://jroller.com/aalmiray

Steve Evans
Steve Evans is a Systems Architect at CSU CalPoly. Steve is the technical lead for a group that runs Active Directory, Sharepoint, SQL Services, File Services, and more for CalPoly's 30,000+ users. Steve's primary responsibilities at CalPoly include systems architecture, identity management, and program development for infrastructure related applications. Steve also hawks his skills in the freelance space doing both Infrastructure and Programming consulting.

http://scevanscg.com

Dave Britton
Dave is a Senior Engineer at Vertigo Software. When he was just 12 years old he got acceess to a Commodore PET and has been hooked on computers and programming ever since. Dave Graduated from the Leeds Metropolitan University(England) with a B.A. in Computer Studies w/Software Engineering in 1991 and has been doing consulting, almost exclusively using Microsoft technologies, ever since. A very experienced Microsoft .Net developer, loves to stay ahead of the curve learning the newest technologies as soon as they are out of the gate. He has already implemented and deployed prodcution code using Silverlight 1.0. A considerable amount of his career has been spent working with Document Management and Enterprise Workflow systems and he is passionate about solving not only technical problems, but business problems.

http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/dbritton/Blog/default.aspx

Mahesh Prakriya
Mahesh Prakriya is currently a Lead Program Manager in developer division working on dynamic languages. His background includes 10+ years at Microsoft (2 years in SQL Server, 6 years in .NET CLR team in Developer Division in Microsoft and another 2 years before that in VS). Before Microsoft Mahesh was a developer for 3 years in Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in Solaris/Sybase/X-Motif environment. Mahesh has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania and bachelors in electrical engineering.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython

Jinesh Varia
Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services. Loves everything that revolves around Web Services, Internet and Code

http://aws.amazon.com

Kevin Nilson
Kevin is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (Java User Group). Kevin received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Kevin has several years of industry software engineering experience with companies such as: E*Trade, Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, Southwestern Bell Communications, US Postal Service, and Core Institute. Kevin is currently working full-time as a Principal Architect for E*Trade in Menlo Park, CA, teaching for College of San Mateo part-time, working part-time for Ucodit.com, an exciting Bay Area start-up, working part-time for Vantage Point Mapping, and devotes any free time to open source programming for JAbook. Kevin is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.

http://www.javaclimber.com

Arun Gupta
Arun is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Next Generation Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0) Applications at Sun Microsystems. He was the spec lead for JAX-WS, delivered WS-Addressing implementation in Project Tango, represented Sun at W3C, WS-I, SOAP Builders and contributed to multiple releases of Java EE and SE. He is a prolific blogger with numerous useful tips at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta.

http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta

Jeff Atwood
I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. I was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft's BASIC in the 80's, starting with my first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. I continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's, although I also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. I am now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity. I consider myself a reasonably experienced Windows software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in my recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/

Chris Sims
Chris Sims is a teacher, consultant, coder, all-around geek, founder of the Technical Management Institute, and facilitator for the Bay Area Engineering Managers Support Group. These days he spends much of his time teaching engineers how to lead people, projects, and teams. For the really curious, a longer bio can be found here: http://technicalmanagementinstitute.com/bio.shtml

http://technicalmanagementinstitute.com/

Cal Schrotenboer
Cal is a C# developer with experience in building Windows Forms application front ends for SQL Server databases. He also teaches programming classes (Advanced C#, WPF, Expresion Blend, WCF, ASP.NET, VSTO, Perl, SQL Server 2005) at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and Microsoft Network Administration (MCSE) classes at Mission College in Santa Clara. Recently Cal has begun specializing in WPF. He has done five MSDN Webcasts on various WPF topics and has spoken to User Groups throughout California about WPF. His Foothill College WPF and Expression Blend classes were likely the first college level classes in these topics available anywhere. Cal maintains a WPF blog at www.WPFLearningExperience.com His outside interests include travel and photography (www.travelswithcal.com). Cal has sample XBAP applications available at www.travelswithcal.com/wpfzone and www.drinkmate.com/weddingproofs/

http://www.WPFLearningExperience.com

Newton Chan
Newton Chan is an independent consultant specializing in innovative web applications design. He has been an adjunct computer science professor at Foothill College since 1998, a former chair of TechSIG at Silicon Valley WebGuild, now the Technology Evangelist at Silicon Valley WebBuilders and is active with the Software Developers Forum.

http://krypton.fhda.edu/~nchan/

Roman Zhovtulya
Roman is president and CEO of WebServiceCenter Group (USA, Germany, India), which he co-founded in early 2004 and has since been responsible for strategic management and IT. He received a Master's Degree in "Communications and Media Engineering" from Offenburg University (Germany) and has established and managed a number of technology initiatives there. One of them being "InternetServiceCenter" - an innovative company-like software development agency within the University. Roman's interests range from politics (successful internship at the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada) through economics and stock market (training at WoodGundy broker's office) to Artificial Intelligence (research on AI for stock market prediction at Delft University of Technology , Netherlands).

http://www.WebServiceCenter.net

Perry Birch
Perry Birch is a partner in a small consulting firm called Golden Quest Technologies which provides advisory, training and development services around several Microsoft products. He has been focused on the process of improving the software development lifecycle for several years and has become well versed in several complimentary technologies to this end.

http://perrybirch.blogspot.com

Chris Mullins
Chris Mullins is a C# Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) and the Chief Software Architect at Coversant. He mentors development teams in .NET programming and is a sought-after speaker for his insights into programming and application architecture. Software designed by Chris runs in over 5 million U.S. households, has been battlefield deployed, and is used by a number of government agencies, divisions of the U.S. Military, and private sector companies around the world. Chris authors an advanced .NET blog at: http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins.

http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins

Dirk Morris
Dirk Morris is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Untangle and visionary behind the Untangle Gateway Platform. Prior to Untangle, Dirk was Chief Architect at Akheron Technologies, where he invented the patent-pending High Bandwidth Transparent Vectoring used in the company's proxy firewall engine. He has also held positions as lead engineer at VerticalNet and H.L.L.C. Consulting, developing Java-based distributed monitor and intrusion detection systems. Earlier in his career, Dirk worked on survivability simulations at CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Response Team), the renowned, federally-funded Center for Internet security operated by Carnegie Mellon University.

http://blog.untangle.com/

Juval Lowy
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.0. His latest book is Programming WCF Services (O'Reilly 2007). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders.

http://www.idesign.net

Bill Venners
Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of the Artima Developer website (http://www.artima.com/). He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services. Bill also serves as an elected member of the Jini Community's initial Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and in this role helped to define the governance process for the community.

http://www.artima.com/

Shamod Lacoul
Shamod is a BizTalk Server consultant at Consulteer, LLC and an entrepreneuer. He has worked on BizTalk Server for about 3 years and been involved in local .NET and BizTalk usergroups. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from SJSU.

http://shamod.blogspot.com

Edward Cherlin
Ed Cherlin has gone from an APL programmer to an evangelist for computers for ending poverty over 30 years, including time in market research, managing software development, technical writing, fighting spam, and promoting Unicode. He has also been a cook, goatherd, classroom teacher, builder and a few other things. His current project, Earth Treasury, intends to get schoolchildren around the world connected together, and to teach them how to go into business. In aid of this, Ed is now a sustainable MBA student at Presidio School of Management.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury

Uday Gajendar
Currently a senior designer at Involution Studios, a software services firm focused on digital interface design. My work has spanned financial software, licensing systems, creative tools, and most recently consumer device concepts at a range of firms in Silicon Valley. I earned a Master's in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon after completing a BFA in Industrial Design at Michigan. As a member of IDSA and AIGA, I have published and spoken at conferences on many topics, including enterprise software, design strategy, and beauty.

http://www.udanium.com

Athol Foden
Athol Foden is the President of Brighter Naming, as well as a writer (See www.FodenPress.com), consultant(See www.SVMarketeer.com) and lecturer (For U.C. Extension - Silicon Valley) on technical sales and marketing topics. A former techy turned marketeer, he now spends most of his time advising and helping startups with their new company or product branding and positioning directions.

http://www.svmarketeer.com

lynn langit
What inspires someone from Fargo, North Dakota to dream of becoming a United Nations translator? Love of words, of course. A self-described language geek, Lynn is fascinated by languages and semantics. She understands that life rarely travels in a straight line, and her own career reflects this winding path. Lynn moved from a degree in linguistics to become a business executive, and then launched her own software development, training and consulting company. She’s done production work with all versions of .NET, BizTalk, K2.Net, SharePoint, SQL Server, Analysis Services, InfoPath, MOM, and Active Directory, and holds an array of certifications, including MCT, MCSD, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA and MSF. Lynn is also the author of "Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence" from Apress. She gets her biggest on-the-job buzz from developing architecture – translating business needs into technical solutions that provide real value and opportunities. In her spare time, Lynn gives back to the community by supporting children’s education. Her current projects include work with the Mona Foundation (Redmond, Washington) and SmartCare (Lusaka, Zambia).

http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

Patrick Linskey
Patrick Linskey has been involved in object/relational mapping for 6+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction of the company and oversaw the development of Kodo. Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementing the WebLogic Server EJB solution. Patrick is one of the leaders on the JPA and JDO specification teams, and is BEA's representative on the EJB3.1 and JPA2 expert group. He is one of the key members of the Apache OpenJPA project, delivering an enterprise-grade JPA implementation.

http://

Edgard Capdevielle
Edgard Capdevielle is Sr. Director of Product Management. He joins Nirvanix from Brocade Communications’ Emerging Businesses unit responsible for entering the HBA market, which doubled Brocade’s addressable market. He joined Brocade through the acquisition of McDATA Corporation, where he led the Advanced Products Group responsible for expanding revenue in new businesses. As Sr. Director of Product Management, he established and managed OEM relationships with Riverbed, FalconStor, and LSI’s StoreAge. Prior to McDATA, Capdevielle worked with the founders of Orbital Data (acquired by Citrix Systems), was a Principal at Outlook Ventures, a $200M San Francisco based VC firm, and served as Engagement Manager with Ernst & Young’s management consulting practice (now Cap Gemini). He received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

http://nirvanix.com/

Anand Iyer
Anand works as a Developer Evangelist, Microsoft's .NET ambassador to the Northern California region. During his tenure there, he has been in the midst of several launches, such as Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Vista and Office 2007. He has spoken at over a hundred conferences on a variety of topics and boasts a very high and credible customer satisfaction score. Before joining Microsoft, Anand worked for a networking bellwether company, pioneering XML-based manageability solutions for an embedded operating system. During his five-year tenure as a software development engineer, Anand worked closely with customers to fine-tune his product features and drive problems to a full resolution. Anand has extensive experience software methodologies, and has worked on several development platforms, including Linux and Unix. He is fluent in C, C++, Java, and PERL. Anand has also earned two patent awards related to manageability solutions on networking platforms. Anand graduated from Purdue University (Go Boilers!) with a degree in Computer Engineering. In his professional daydreams, Anand is on the gridiron, working as the quarterback coach for his beloved Alma Mater.

http://artificialignorance.net

wesley chun
WESLEY J. CHUN, author of Prentice Hall's best-selling Core series book, "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com) and co-author of the upcoming "Practical Django Development", is currently a senior engineer at NearbyNow (http://nearbynow.com) and also runs a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical corporate training (http://cyberwebconsulting.com). He has been programming, teaching, and writing since 1980, including more than a decade’s experience with Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo!Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.

http://corepython.com

Kim Greenlee

Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing successful applications. Deborah has authored several books, including the "Doing Objects in Visual Basic" series (Addison-Wesley), "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" (Apress) and "Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques" (Apress). Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country as a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau (http://www.ineta.org/) and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. After a hard day of coding and taking care of her family, Deborah enjoys blowing stuff up (on the XBox of course).

http://www.insteptech.com

Robert Eisenberg
Robert Eisenberg has 20+ years of experience, is a BizTalk MVP, and authoring a book on WF due out at the end of the year.

http://

Dick Wall
Dick Wall is a co-host on the Java Posse podcast and also works at Google in the Developer Programs division

http://javaposse.com

Freeman Jackson
Freeman is founder of the start-up company INNOVATIONFEED.COM, an Intellectual Property Tracking and Reporting service. His company uses Java/InfoGlue portal components to monitor and track patent activity for major corporations, universities, and R/D organizations. He has been certified as Java Architect and Programmer since 1999. He holds a M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science. After spending a ½ year in the United Kingdom, where writing SOAP services to datamine the European Patent Office, and developing IPSCOREKEEPER.COM, last July he moved to the Silicon Valley area and is relaunching with InfoGlue at INNOVATIONFEED.COM.

http://www.innovationfeed.com

Robert Hope
Robert currently owns San Luis Technology Consultants (http://www.sanluistech.com), a consulting firm located in San Luis Obispo, CA., providing web and software design and development services. He recently founded the San Luis Obispo .NET User Group (http://www.slodotnet.org) with the hopes of bringing together the development community on the Central Coast. He has over 10 years of experience designing, documenting, and developing web- and windows-based applications from the UI level down to the database level. These applications have been high-volume and high-performance, including LoopNet.Com, a website that serves more than 2 million page hits per day to a user base of more than 1.5 million active users. His roles have included Technical Consultant, Senior Web Developer, Systems Architect, and Information Technology Executive.

http://www.sanluistech.com

Van Riper
Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Van has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Krillion in Mountain View, California. He is also the founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/

Peter Kellner
Peter Kellner founded 73rd Street Associates in 1990, where he successfully delivered systems for university clinic scheduling, insurance company management, and a turnkey physician office management to more than 500 customers nationwide. Ten years later, in 2000, 73rd Street Associates was purchased by a large insurance company, and Peter started a new career as an independent software consultant. Among the technologies he currently is involved with are ASP.NET, Oracle, Java, VOiP, and soon, SQL Server. When not working, Peter spends most his free time biking. He has ridden his bike across the globe. Most recently he and his wife, Tammy, rode across the U.S., from California to Georgia, in just 27 days.

http://peterkellner.net

Jon Galloway
After working hard as a submarine lieutenant, Jon Galloway was amazed to find that people would pay him to goof off with computers all day. Jon is an ASP.NET MVP and spends most of his time with ASP.NET and SQL Server, but likes to keep involved with a variety of other technologies, including Silverlight, Mono, vector graphics, web technologies, and open source .NET development. He co-founded the Monoppix project and has contributed to several open source projects, including SubSonic. He regularly releases open source utilities (late at night, when his wife and three daughters are fast asleep). He's a Senior Software Engineer at Vertigo Software, and blogs at weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway.

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway

Dave Nielsen
Director, Partner & Developer Programs Strikeiron Web Services As founder of the SDForum Web Services SIG, Dave is obsessed with Web APIs. At night, he counts them instead of sheep ... Prior to joining Strikeiron, Dave was the Technical Evangelist and Manager of the PayPal Developer Network. He also co-authored PayPal Hacks, an O'Reilly book, with a marraige proposal in the acknowledgement section.

http://safari.oreilly.com/0596007515/payhks-PREFACE-2