Well it's eight o'clock in Boise, Idaho.
I'll find my limo driver. Mister, take us to the show.
— What's Your Name, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Flying in to Boise means getting to see the beautiful surrounding mountains from the air. Boise is situated in a valley basin with mountains all around it. With the winter snow on them they are simply stunning. And the view from the ground isn't bad either.

I got in Friday in time for the presenter party with food, drink, familiar faces, and an agile exercise of replacing the schedule in the attendee packs. Scott Hanselman was in the house, fresh in from MIX08, with his laptop out on the bar evangelizing to the bartender. It was a nice, warm welcome to town.

Boise Code Camp had all appearances of a great success. Scuttlebutt has it that the final attendance at the door was around 375. Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! Boise has just raised the bar for code camps in the northwest. You guys rock.

My talk, The New Programming Model — C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5, was well received. I had 300 slides and a ten minute demo in 60 minutes, and not a single bullet point anywhere. Okay, some slides only had one or three words on them. I got some great feedback on the talk, thanks campers!

I am not going to post my slides since the format leans so heavily on the delivery. And even compressed that is a pretty hefty download. Instead, I am announcing here that I'll be working with a friend at Microsoft to record the session as a series of short videos for your nerd viewing pleasure. We plan to get the first ones in the can this week, and we may need another week or two on production and working out hosting. Watch the blog for details.

In the meantime, here are some great starting points for digging deeper into C# 2.0 and 3.0 features.

• What’s New in the C# 2.0 Language and Compiler, MSDN Library
• Overview of C# 3.0, MSDN Library
• Create Elegant Code With Anonymous Methods, Iterators, And Partial Classes, Juval Löwy, MSDN Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 3

Inspiration for the presentation format came from Dick Hardt's keynote address at OSCON 2005 on Identity 2.0; and he, in turn, was inspired by the lectures of law prof  Lawrence Lessig.

I enjoyed the other sessions that I went to at camp. I am only disappointed that the laws of physics prevented me from being in two sessions at the same time. Mark Miller of Devexpress got crazy passionate about creating great UX for two solid hours, but I had to duck out after the first one to go give my talk.

The afters party was a nice affair, and we toured the fabled and swank Code Trip bus. So that's how rock stars tour! I'll be meeting up with the Code Trip crew again when they hit Portland on April 10 for the PADNUG MIX-A-LOT, and then as they make wind up their tour in Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit.

A great big note of appreciation goes to this year's camp director, David Starr, and to his personal support team and lovely wife, Eleanor Starr. Thanks also to Chris Brandsma, chief session wrangler, and Richard Hundhausen for fine hospitality. Congratulations to everyone on a superlative code camp!