It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay .. Dre puttin it down for Californ-I-A
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Hard to believe but four years have passed, since I joined the Southern California Codecamp Conference Circuit, speaking a couple times every year on various software technology related topics.
In January 2006, I spoke in Fullerton at the CSUF about "UI-Generation at Runtime with SwixML", covering the SwixML open source project that I had founded a few years earlier. This talk was refined many times, before I would eventually present it again at the Desktop Matters conference in San Jose. Many CodeCamp presentations in San Diego, OCEJUG Irvine, and Los Angeles followed but throughout the years, Fullerton remained my favorite venue. Not only do the buildings remind me of the University of Paderborn, I went to, but also because of the audience, which always seemed a little more open, more diverse, more enthusiastic, when compared to other CodeCamp locations.

This openness and the audience's excitement for new things, made the Fullerton CodeCamps the perfect venue to try a new talk for the first time, and so I spoke about "Arduino Fever - PHYSICAL COMPUTING" in early 2007. In January 2008 it was "Let's have the server call the client", where we took the accepted view that a Web-Client calls (via HTTP GET or POST) a server and turned it on its head, having the server call the client. Just like the Arduino Fever talk, the 2009 Fullerton talk "Turning a WiFi Router into a general-purpose Network Device" had a hardware component, showing off some of the new Fonera FON devices, running an OpenWRT build.

So it's January 2010 and like every year for the last couple of years, the Socal CodeCamp takes place at the California State University in Fullerton. I'm going to take a hiatus from the Southern California CodeCamp Conference Circuit, looking forward to a new exciting adventure, but not before joining the codecamp crowd at CSUF one more time. I hope to see you on Saturday 4:00 PM in lecture room H123. This time it's all about Android: "Writing a Web Service Client Application for Android"