Everything actually went pretty well. Sure, it wasn't without it's glitches, but I think everyone had a pretty good time and learned a lot. At least that's what people told us... :)

My presentation seemed to go over pretty well - I got a few compliments afterwards (and applause), but in my glimpses of evaluations as they were turned in, there were a couple of 3's and 4's (out of 5), so I know I have some work to do. Still I'm pretty happy with my first presentation in front of a large crowd (BADNUG usually has less than a dozen, and back in my MCT days my largest class was 16 - 60 or so people is definitely more than I've spoken to before).

We had 200 people signed up, and including walk-ins, ended up with probably 160-170 people in attendance, so I'd say turn out was pretty good. Many talks had people lined up along the back wall - each room had seating for 50, and we had three rooms going. We'll definitely need more speakers for the next code camp - I can only imagine that there will be a few more people attending.

One speaking tip - coffee is not an effective means of curing a dry mouth. Sure, it helps for a minute, but then it only makes it worse. My presentation was the first one in Room 1, so I hadn't yet finished my morning coffee, and just used that instead of getting a bottle of water. Now I know.

From previous experience, though, tea can work, especially if you are fighting an illness...

One other tip - try to break your code lines as much as possible (probably won't help those using VB for their demos, though) and crank up the font size. And then take a walk to the back of the room to make sure that the text is readable. Works especially well if your eyes are little worse than average, like mine.

So, if you're still reading, let me be the first to start the rumor that we are planning to have another Code Camp in the fall, probably late September or early October.