Portland Code Camp v2.0 was held this past Saturday (7/22) on the WSU campus in Vancouver and man, what an event! If you didn’t have room in your schedule to attend it this year, start writing “Portland Code Camp” in your day planner for every day of next year just to make sure you don’t make that stupid mistake again.

I just want to say to all the people involved in making it happen, awesome job guys. You really pulled it off and code camp was a total success in my opinion. The code camp was cut back to just one day this year (due to lack of presenters, not lack of attenders), but what a day it was. Coffee in the morning, an quick opening session, 2 awesome sessions, a great box lunch outside near the WSU fountain, followed by 3 more awesome sessions, a nice catered dinner with good conversations with fellow technology enthusiasts in the community, live music, Frisbee golf, geek karaoke and croquet on the lawn. Quite a day.

The sessions were varied and covered a wide range of topics from ASP.NET to Ruby to AJAX to Use Cases to.. well, let’s just say you could get a LOT of information about many technologies in just a single day.

While the sessions were awesome, the true power of the code camp is in meeting other members of the technology community. If you didn’t take the time to introduce yourself to at least one new person, you really missed out on some serious networking opportunities.

Well, that’s my little blurb about the Portland Code Camp v 2.0 in general, I’ll try and get some of my session specific observations up in just a little bit. Throughout the day it was possible to attend five sessions, but I only went to four of them. During the third session, I took a little Code Camp break and went home to give my wife a little break with the boys (we have 3 of them), but I’ll make sure to post my coverage of the sessions that I did attend.