I have been doing Code Camp for over a year now (that may not seem like a lot but this will be my 3rd time presenting there).  Code Camp is awesome!  It's a full day of free training in a verity of topics that most developers find interesting. 

Topics Include:

• Silverlight 2.0
• Building websites with the ASP.NET MVC framework
• C# 3.0
• Writing Manageable Services in .NET
• Database Performance tuning  Part 1
• IronRuby + C# = Awesomeness
• Game Development in XNA for the Xbox360
• Introduction to Mac OS X programming using Cocoa and Objective C
• Developing For Windows Vista
• T-Sql Querying
• Why C# Namespaces are not the same as Java Packages
• An Introduction to CakePHP

You can visit http://www.utcodecamp.com for more information (Yes, I know I put the Microsoft technologies first -- I'm an unpaid unofficial self-proclaimed Microsoft Technologies Evangelist!).  Wither you are just starting out in your career or have been doing this stuff for years you will get something out of Code Camp!  It's not one of those Microsoft "For developers" class sessions where it's just a giant power point and you didn't get any real substance!  In fact, that is part of the Code Camp Manifesto (http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2004/12/12/280181.aspx)

Information:

Date: April 26, 2008 (This Saturday)
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Please register here.

I will be doing the Silverlight 2.0 presentation so please come!! 

Thanks!
Nathan Zaugg

I was creating a payment form recently and I wanted to disable the submit button after the user had clicked it so that there was no chance of them clicking it twice on accident. 

This seems like one of those things that just ought to be a slam dunk!  Back when I was doing ASP, this was one of the easiest things I ever did.  I have done it with asp.net before, but I never needed validation to work as well.  It took me a long time, many searches and trial and error but I found a solution that will disable the button and doesn't get in the way of validation.

The javascript is pretty straight-forward.  We are simply calling the validation function ourselves, if it validated we disable the button and change the text.  What does the rest of the code do then? Well, normally when a control is disabled it doesn't post data on postback.  Fortunantly, ASP.NET makes it easy to override that default behavior.  Without this data our button click event would never fire!

You can also do this in the HTML as well.

I hope this is useful to someone!  If you end up using it on one of your sites, please leave a comment!

Thanks!
Nathan Zaugg

I do a lot of tech interviews.  If I'm really into it that day I'd say I give one of the better Interviews your likely to receive.  I can honestly say that no one has what I would call a decent resume, but this one takes the cake for the worst objective ever!

Objective:

Secure wealth and comfort for my family and employer in an orderly, organized fashion, using my current expertise and learning new

technologies to maximize profits and reduce bad stuff.

I have been looking for a long time for someone to secure wealth in an orderly fashion.  My three favorite parts are 1) Organized acquisition of wealth. 2) The hard return inside of the sentence. and 3) "reduce bad stuff". (my favorite!)

--Nathan Zaugg