CodeCampEvals.com was created as a team effort by members of the development community, most of which
have been personally involved with CodeCamps as speakers, organizers or both. The following folks were
influential in bringing the site to life:
Bruce Thomas is a very well respected developer and Code Camp presenter who always recieves the highest of ratings
whenever he speaks. Although the site was published in June 2006, it originated in concept back at the November 2005 Alabama
CodeCamp. The CodeCamp was a great event, nice turnout, great speakers.
One of the very nice surprises resulting from that CodeCamp was that Bruce Thomas had created a very nice presentation of
speaker evaluations. It was just a downright beautiful presentation of the evaluations. The CodeCampEvals.com was actually based
on this initial design and it grew from there. Thanks Bruce!
Shawn Weisfeld is one of the developers of the site (as well as a speaker at a number of codecamps). Shawn is an
Orlando FL based developer and president of the Orlando .NET Users Group. Currently he is doing
intranet & smart client development at a local fortune 500 company and teaches at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Shawn started his career at his family business in Port St. Lucie Florida while working on his undergraduate degree in
Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and after a year off Shawn moved to Orlando to pursue
a Masters degree in Management Information Systems at UCF. Before graduating Shawn worked as an intern at the company
he currently works full time for. Currently Shawn is working on a second Masters degree in Computer Science at FIT.
Besides his work, Shawn enjoys volunteering with local organizations. Additional URLs he tried to stuff into his
bio include shawn@shawnweisfeld.com and www.shawnweisfeld.com. http://www.shawnweisfeld.com
David Silverlight is the other developer of the site and also a CodeCamp Veteran speaker. David Silverlight is an
independent software developer with deep knowledge of XML and Microsoft's .NET. An avid teacher and evangelist, he created
and maintains 3 developer communities, each one tying into different facets of the development community.
Here is a little bit about them....
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Community-Credit.com: a development community that rewards techies for their contributions to the development community. Developers get points for things like examples, discussions, blogs, article, etc. At the end of each month, the geeks with the most points win prizes.
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NonProfitWays.com: community of volunteer .net developers that build applications for Not For Profit organizations. Newbies and students can get real hands on experience, more seasoned developers have a chance to mentor others and share their knowldedge.
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XMLPitstop.com: is a great resource for XML and .NET developers at all levels of experience. The site is notable for its appeal to hands-on developers, offering good demo applications that provide a full working, downloadable versions of commonly sought functionality.
Daniela Panfili: designed the site. If you like the look and feel of the site, you can thank her. Daniela is an user interface designer, with almost 8 year of experience in designing and architecting websites and web portals. Her skills set cover all the phases of a web site design, from the initial mock-up, to the XHTML+CSS template, till the deployment on various types of CMS, both private and public or open source, like DotNetNuke or SharePoint Services. And she is also obsessively meticulous about usability, accessibility and user experience.
She is also specialized in "offline" graphics. movie making and illustration. When not designing interface she likes to spread her experience through her blog at www.piyodesign.it/blog or contibuting to OpenSource projects (she revamped the admin interface of SubText). You can reach her via her website
www.piyodesign.it
Joe Healy: has helped to transform the Southeast Development Community into what it is today. Not only has he been
instrumental in organizing a countless number of CodeCamps, but he has really motivated and helped to bring the development
community together. Joe takes CodeCamps beyond mere technical summits and raises them to the level of social networking events.
Russ Fustino: has been a mainstay for the Southeastern developer community. His contributions to the development community
and to CodeCamps in the Southeastern area are undeniable. In addition, he contibutes in a much different way. He has been
running .NET Pub Clubs, which are social events for developers that offer a social environment for developers to chat
following Code Camp events. No CodeCamp is complete without the post-event pub club and no Post CodeCamp event is complete
without Russ.
Daniel Egan was very instrumental in helping to bring the online version to fruition. He offered and tremendous amount of support, guidance
and foresight in the creation of the Online Version. Over the past seven years, Daniel has held a variety of positions in the information technology and
engineering fields. Currently, he is a Sr. Architect\Sr. Trainer at Breakthrough Business Solutions Inc. (http://www.BreakthroughBiz.com) working
extensively in database applications and Web development. Daniel is an MCP and MCSD.