Roadies online!
3/17/2008 9:01:48 PM
The day-by-day feature rollout continues with the Roadies section going live on the Code Trip site. We will soon be adding individual bio pages for each roadie, but we wanted to get this up at least so you could see who is rolling on The Code Trip.
The Roadies page also displays who is currently on the bus. You can also find this out with the home page map by hovering over the bus icon... it shows the current riders and their Twitter updates.
While on the subject of roadies, a few words about some of the people who have participated in the trip thus far.
Kelly White
Kelly is very active in the Portland developer community. He is the founder of the Portland User Experience user group (PDXUX), which is the first Silverlight-focused user group, and the first group in the local area to be inclusive of both developers and designers. He's also working on starting up a local XNA user group, found at http://pdxna.org/.
Kelly was the first roadie to join us on The Code Trip, rolling with us from MIX in Vegas up to Boise Code Camp. Once we hit the road we looped him in to present at our first event in Salt Lake City. (The first night on the road was spent building code and plowing through MIX samples until about 3:30am when we made it to SLC.)
Craig Berntson
Craig is a Microsoft MVP, and hitched a ride on The Code Trip in Salt Lake City up to Boise for Boise Code Camp. Craig presented at Code Camp on Continuous Integration (CI) using free tools such as CruiseControl.NET and NUnit. Craig has some posts about his adventures on the bus and at Code Camp on his blog. We'll be seeing Craig again at the MVP Summit when the Code Trip wraps up in Seattle in mid-April.
Lance Fisher
Lance is a developer/database administrator for Missoula County in Missoula, MT. He contacted us shortly after we announced our schedule and helped us organize our visit to the University of Montana, which was a great time. (They even let us park the bus in the middle of their campus!) Lance was also at Boise Code Camp with the rest of the Code Trip crew, presenting on JQuery and the Intellisense docs he built for it.
Lance is starting up a .NET user group in Missoula. If you're in the area, definitely check out the Yahoo! group and find out how you can participate.
Wanna ride with us?
We have several more people who will be joining us in the weeks ahead, and you can be one of them by contacting us at crew@thecodetrip.com. Check the schedule and see when we're rolling through your area. If a road trip with a bunch of developers geeking out sounds like a fun time to you, pack up your laptop and come join us out on The Code Trip!