Using Agile Methods to Become Awesome

Featuring David Laribee

This workshop is an experience share: techniques I've found useful in transitioning from "good team" to "great team." The workshop is divided into six pomodoros (25 minutes hard focus followed by a five minute break). Half our time will be spent doing hands on exercises:...

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Advanced Topics of Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow examples

Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Jonas Bandi

Come learn about general practices and patterns of BDD and ATDD ‒ through concrete examples realised with SpecFlow. Come discuss opportunities and pitfalls of BDD and common antipatterns and pitfalls based on concrete experiences with BDD.

specflow bdd atdd

Building Search Engines with Lucene.net, Solr and NHibernate Search

Featuring Scott Cowan

Do you really need a database for that project? Find out about the exciting world of Lucene the fast access datastore. Covering lucene.net and what you can do in the .net port. How Nhibernate Search can give you a quick way to map your model to an index.

lucene.net solr nhibernate-search nhibernate lucene

NoSQL on .NET

Featuring Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien

The buzz is on, everyone is talking about those NoSQL databases, but what ARE they? Do I really need to SQL behind? In this session, we will explore key / value databases, document databases, graph databases and column family databases.

nosql .net

Using Agile Methods to Become Competent

Featuring David Laribee

This workshop is for developers beginning with agile methods or coaches and consultants looking for new ways to introduce agility to their customers. We'll break up into teams of 5-6 people and play a modified version of "The XP Game." I'll share coaching tactics and practice...

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Packaging, with Openwrap

Featuring Sebastien Lambla

Finding great .net code is easy. Using it, managing all the dependencies that can exist between packages is not. In this session, we’ll have a look at an early version of OpenWrap, an package management system for .net, and the challenges that it tries to solve.

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NHibernate stump the expert

Featuring Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien

In this interactive session, you'll have the chance to try to give Ayende all the unanswerable NHibernate questions that are burning within you. Along the way, we'll explore advanced NHibernate features, under utilized options and all the tips Ayende can share after working with...

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Driving an ASP.NET MVC application outside-in with SpecFlow

Featuring Jonas Bandi and Gaspar Nagy

In this tutorial, we'll create an ASP.NET MVC app from scratch with an outside-in approach. Come learn Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) to bridge the gap between requirements and implementation with SpecFlow.

specflow bdd .net asp.net

Introduction to ReSTful architectures

Featuring Sebastien Lambla

Sebastien Lambla ran an amazing workshop on ReSTful architectures! Check out the podcast here:

tags: #prognet

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Advanced Castle Windsor part2

Featuring Mike Hadlow

Are you comfortable with Dependency Injection? Maybe you've started to look at Windsor, or already used it's basic IoC functionality in a production application. Mike Hadlow will present a hands-on version of his popular blog series: 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks.

castle-windsor .net