Today was the .Net User Group Code Camp that Kirk, Jacqualine and Andre have been working hard on for the last couple of months.

There was a host of great speakers at this years code camps a number of whom are speakers at Tech Ed.

The day has been pretty busy, over 200 people have been at the day of code reasonably consistency and often there have been around 220 in the room.  As far as I know that makes this Code Camp the biggest code camp ever in New Zealand.

One of the highlights for many of the attendees was seeing Scott Hanselman present.  Scott is well known in New Zealand, and well respected as a developer geek.  Scott is a very relaxed, and natural speaker, although there were times when those in the audience weren't quite sure if he was joking or not.

During the Lightening talks, the building caught fire - at least that is what the fire brigade thought as they came running to respond to the fire alarm that went off in the hotel.  Everyone had an impromptu break at that point, but it was only a short interruption and the proceedings weren't delayed too badly.

During the day Kirk also recognized the contributions of Peter Bamberger and Ivan Towlson.  Their contributions to the mailing list ensures that people who ask questions there get timely answers and also make the .Net Mailing list one of the most valuable developer resources in New Zealand.  If you don't already subscribe to the .Net mailing list, you should sign up.