The planning has begun for the next Jacksonville Code Camp. The next code camp will be this August at the UNF campus. If you are not familiar with the Code Camp, it is a free one day development conference put on by the local development community.

One of the things we tried to do last year was to have differing development technologies presented on at the camp. We had a presentation from the Ruby Jax group, as well as several presentations on Adobe Air and Flex.

The conference is still looking for speakers and volunteers. If there is a subject you would like to present on, please submit your presentation subject at the web site.

I added my ASP.NET MVC presentation to my presentations page on Fekke.com. I have not posted my code from the presentation on my site yet, but you download samples from asp.net/mvc.

The registration for SQL Saturday is almost capped for this coming weekend. Go to www.sqlsaturday.com, and click on the registration link for Jacksonville. I am presenting on Linq this year first thing in the morning.

I will be giving a presentation at May's JAXDUG meeting on the ASP .NET MVC framework. The MVC framework is modern web application framework for .NET that shares many popular features with other popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, DJango, Grails and ColdBox.

I am going to be giving a presentation on Linq for SQL at the SQL Saturday at the University of North Florida on Saturday May 2nd. This presentation covers the basics on how to use the Language integrated query syntax inside of .NET 3.5.

There a lot of other good presentations that will be given on the SQL Server 2008 platform. SQL Saturday is a free event. Sign up now before registration for the event fills up.

I am looking for a ColdFusion developer with C# .NET experience here in the Jacksonville, Fl area. If you are available, and have experience with both ColdFusion and C#, please contact me at davidfekke at gmail dot com.

I have been recently approached by two different companies in the Jacksonville, Fl area that are trying to hire ColdFusion developers. If you live in Jacksonville or are willing to relocate, these are good opportunities.

There are three open positions at Taleo. If you follow this link and do a search for "Software Engineer" it will show the open positions. They are also trying to hire Java, C# and Flex developers.

Another company that is trying find ColdFusion developers is called Andromeda Systems.

jQuery has been popular in the ColdFusion community, but it is also popular in the .NET community. It is popular enough that Microsoft is including the jQuery library with Visual Studio going forward.

Microsoft already includes AJAX .NET libraries with Visual Studio 2008 as part of the IDE. The 15k jQuery library will be included now as well. jQuery is an open source library, so it is nice to see Microsoft carrying an open source library with one of their products.

Scott Guthrie has a blog entry about this along with some jQuery examples.

I am thinking about having a presentation on jQuery at the next JaxFusion meeting in October.

The JaxFusion user group is meeting tonight on ColdFusion and .NET interoperability.

The meeting will be held tonight at 6:30 PM at South West Signal.

The next JaxFusion meeting will be on Tuesday, September 16th at 6:30. The presentation for the next meting will be on integrating ColdFusion and .NET hybrid applications.

The Jacksonville Code Camp location has been moved to the East Pointe Church on Kernan Blvd. just north of Atlantic Blvd. The Venue change is due to Tropical Storm Fay.

The address for the East Pointe Church, 270 North Kernan Boulvard, Jacksonville, FL 32225. Please spread the word.