After the Silverlight Atlanta meetup tomorrow night, I will be driving to Knoxville for Codestock 2010 with Jeremy Likness, Corey Schuman and others.  

I’ll be presenting on Intellitrace early Friday morning and on Advanced Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 development on Saturday afternoon.

Codestock is led by Michael Neel a d has been growing every year.  If you plan to be there, tweet me @jamesashley and we can meet up.

I had every intention of writing the sequel to Reporting Services and WCF, but life has caught up.

I’ve been busy working with Corey Schuman on throwing the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter Event, for which I also need to finish practicing a short presentation on Silverlight resources. 

Besides that, I’ve also been working with several Atlanta software community people on organizing a Leading Edge Microsoft User Group.  The goal of the group is to cover the CTP drops and Microsoft Research bits that do not normally get covered in the standard user groups.  You can find our website here: www.alemug.net .

So it’s been a busy couple of weeks.  During that time, Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad and Robert J. Smith have fed my zombie jones with a mathematical model of zombie outbreaks: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf

I have every intention of continuing with the WCF article.  After that, I also intend to do a walkthrough of the steps required to build a WPF application using the MVVM pattern – I don’t think there are any breakdown articles on the web about this – followed by posts about MVVM in Silverlight and a comparison of various UI design patterns – MVVM, MVP (PV and SC), MVC.  Finally, I want to post about a dream (a vision?) I had about Martin Fowler in the year 2029.

CodeStock, which will be held on June 26th and June 27th in Knoxville, TN, has an interesting way of selecting speakers.  While a speakers committee ultimately decides who will speak at the event, all registrants (it’s $25 this year) also have a say in who they are interesting in hearing.

I’ve submitted two presentations this year but at the moment still have no idea if I’ll ultimately be delivering either.

The first is a version of the pleasantly successful REST-ful WCF presentation I did at Atlanta Code Camp, with additional material covering the release of the WCF REST Starter Kit 2.

The second is an overview of the MVC, MVP, and MVVM UI design patterns.  There are lots of good articles available on the net about how to use each one individually.  I want to give a more synoptic view of how they are related, and their advantages and disadvantages with regard to particular .NET platforms.

I don’t know anyone in Knoxville, so if you are planning on attending CodeStock this year, please drop me a line in the comments so I can make plans to meet up with you.