The Progressive .NET Tutorials have now started, featuring 12 intensive hands-on .NET Tutorials on various modern .NET technologies.



Unfortunately Scott Bellware had to cancel last moment, but luckily, Gojko Adzic was able to step in for Scott...Ayende, Rob Pickering, David Laribee, Gojko Adzic and Ian Cooper have all arrived. Hammett is delayed and is going to do his talk on Wednesday rather than Tuesday, but other than that everything should be fine!

We are filming all sessions and will publish (bits of) this as webcasts... You will be able to find these (post conference) by clicking on the "more..." links below next to each session synopsis.

In the mean time, here are some pics of the first day already!

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PROGRAMME

Monday 11th May 2009
Track 1 PANEL DISCUSSION Panel Discussion more...     09:00-13:00    SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE & AGI Gojko Adzic: In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing to improve the communication between stakeholders and software implementation teams. Learn how to distil the specification and how to write and manage acceptance tests efficiently. more...     14.00-18.00    FITNESSE.NET WORKSHOP Gojko Adzic: This practical workshop teaches participants how to automate acceptance tests and connect them to the domain code efficiently with FitNesse.NET, covering topics such as basic fixtures, mapping to domain services and classes and best practices for FitNesse.NET. more...	Track 2     09.00 - 13.00    WRITING INTERNAL DSLS IN C# Ian Cooper: Ian Cooper introduces the ideas behind Internal DSLs and shows how C# 3.5 helps to write them. Get a grounding in the elements of writing a fluent interface such as expression builders and method chaining, as well as looking at how lambda expressions help us do parse tree manipulation. more...     14:00-18:00    OPENRASTA - AN MVC FRAMEWORK Sebastien Lambla: This tutorial shows how OpenRasta embraces web technologies, whilst providing for a very large amount of extensibility. You'll also learn what resources are, how to design your code around them and how to leverage REST. more...
Tuesday 12th May 2009
Track 1 09:00-13:00    INTRO TO NHIBERNATE WORKSHOP Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this NHibernate workshop, we will cover the first nhibernate application, basic mapping, using Fluent NHibernate and how to properly use NHibernate within your application. more...     MAGNUS HENOCH - TFL JOURNEY AN : Magnus Henoch gave a talk on TFL Journey Angel more...     14:00-18:00    ADVANCED NHIBERNATE WORKSHOP Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this Progressive .NET Tutorial on Advanced NHibernate, you will see how you can utilize an ORM in untraditional ways to get an additional, better, approach to solving complex issues. Some of those ways include business rules, localization, state transitions, inversion of control, etc. more...	Track 2 09:00-13:00    CASTLE WORKSHOP Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira: Hammett, lead of the Castle project, will run this 1/2 workshop on the Castle Framework more...     14:00-18:00    WINDSOR WCF INTEGRATION Mike Hadlow: In this workshop Mike Hadlow will go in depth with the Windsor IoC container's new WCF integration facility.Come and learn how it allows components built with the Dependency Injection pattern to be published as WCF services and remote services consumed as windsor components. more...
Wednesday 13th May 2009
Track 1 09:00-13:00    TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECT David Laribee: Manufacturing companies like Toyota have realized the key to a successful organization was in defining work, eliminating waste, and producing just what's needed, when it's needed... more...     14.00-18.00    DEFINING AND IMPROVING STANDAR David Laribee: Working as a team can be a challenge. It's easy to fall into the trap of owning "your feature" or succumb to ego or deadline pressure and live as the specialist; that person that knows, inside and out, the esoteric dark matter of a codebase. more...	Track 2 09.00-13.00    F# TUTORIAL Robert Pickering: F# is succinct, efficient and an enormously productive foundational language. In this tutorial you'll learn the basic building blocks for using F# productively and to start having fun with it. We'll show you the language basics and look at how composing functions and immutable data types make programming simpler. more...     14:00-18:00    MEF - MICROSOFT'S MANAGED EXTE Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira: Half day workshop on Microsoft's MEF - Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework, presented by Hammett, programme manager for MEF more...

	Scaling with RavenDB Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien : 15th May 2012
	Developing with Couchbase John Zablocki : 9th May 2012
	Document Databases Chris Harris : 9th May 2012
	MongoDB performance David Mytton : 9th May 2012
	The Couchbase Server Tutorial John Zablocki : 9th May 2012
	Hands-on MongoDB Chris Harris : 9th May 2012
	CouchDB at the Hut Group Tom McMillen : 9th May 2012
	Neo4j Highly Connected Data Jim Webber : 9th May 2012
	Neo4j Tales from the Trenches Nicki Watt : 9th May 2012
	RavenDB Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien : 9th May 2012
	RavenDB: challenges & rewards Phil Jones : 9th May 2012
	RavenDB Crash Course Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien : 9th May 2012
	Neo4j Intro Ian Robinson : 3rd May 2012
	Moving Beyond Objects Brian Sletten : 3rd May 2012
	Connecting to Neo4j using Spring Data Anirvan Chakraborty : 3rd May 2012