Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 11th and 12th 2014

David McCarter

dotNetTips.com
About David
David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), C# Corner MVP, solutions architect, speaker, consultant, professional code reviewer and interviewer in San Diego, California. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping software engineers in all aspects of programming since 1994. David has written for programming magazines and has published many books including "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://bit.ly/dotnetdavestore. He is one of the founders and directors of the San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org) for 20 years. In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. Daivd is a featured writer and MVP on C# Corner. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008. His Microsoft MVP profile is located at: http://bit.ly/davidmvp
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Speaking Sessions

  • Community, Career and You: a Microsoft MVP Panel

    3:30 PM Saturday   Room: 4221
    No person survives as an island, and no career grows spontaneously. In this session, we will discuss how to strategically grow your professional opportunities by participating in technical communities. Whether an open source, cross-platform, .NET, iOS, Android or Linux developer (or all of the above), this panel will let you tap into the real-world experiences of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). You will also learn about what it takes to receive and benefit from the MVP Award, and how to get started with the MVP Mentor program. Raucous (or at least mildly amusing) stories guaranteed.

  • Rock Your Code With Defensive Programming

    9:15 AM Sunday   Room: 8401
    This is a companion session to the “Rock Your Coding Standards” that takes writing better code to the next level. Do you enjoy receiving bug tickets from QA? Didn’t think you would, so this session will provide solid practices that I have been using for most of my programming career to check-in only rock solid code. You will learn my #1 mantra that I use while writing code that allows me to write new code (features) and stay out of maintenance mode.

  • Rock Your Technical Interview (Part 1)

    1:15 PM Sunday   Room: SmithWick
    Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? Do you want a big raise? I've interviewed 100's of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from hiring managers, recruiters and engineers that were recently hired at a new company! Maybe some crazy interview stories for fun.

  • Rock Your Technical Interview (Part 2)

    2:45 PM Sunday   Room: 1501
    Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? Do you want a big raise? I've interviewed 100's of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from hiring managers, recruiters and engineers that were recently hired at a new company! Maybe some crazy interview stories for fun.