My three sessions at Tech Ed Berlin 2009 are on line. Here are the tree abstracts:
Building extensible systems in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4
Are you tired of building monolithic style apps? Are you tired of hacking your app to bits to meet just one more requirement. Do you want to enable third parties to provide add-on value to your apps? If the answer to any of these is yes, then come learn about the new Managed Extensibility Framework which ships in .NET 4.0, and in Silverlight 4. Come to this chalk talk and you'll see how to leverage MEF to build extensible applications both for the Desktop and for Silverlight. We'll talk about MEF, the types of applications you can build, as well as various gotchas to be aware of in your MEF development. We'll also discuss our new Silverlight 4 features such as XAML integration and PartCreator.
Flexible Design
It is a greater purpose to develop applications that can be modified as we go from development to maintenance and it is better to build extensible solutions than to code a big ball of mud. But how? Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and POCO. What is all that? Even if you know a lot about design this session just might give you some ideas you have yet to try. This session is about how to begin to believe in fairytales. This session is development magic.
The Role of the Software Architect: Caring and Communicating
The role of the software architect is a subject of much debate. In this session, I will discuss the qualities and personal traits of the ideal software architect. I will discuss why it is critical that the architect be a caring person who values interpersonal communication above all else. This session describes the role of the software architect from the perspective of the ideal nature of a successful architect. My exploration touches the octopus/chameleon/parrot/bull-nature that is the heart and soul of the architect. We need to recognize, as software architects ourselves, that what we do is aimed at changing the lives of many different groups of people.
Here’s one for the scrap book mom! ;~)
Cheers,
M.
posted @ Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:04 PM