Defining and Improving Standard Teamwork

Featuring 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.

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MEF - Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework

Featuring Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira

Half day workshop on Microsoft's MEF - Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework, presented by Hammett, programme manager for MEF

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F# Tutorial

Featuring 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...

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Towards a New Architect

Featuring 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...

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Windsor WCF integration: building component based web services

Featuring Mike Hadlow

In this workshop Mike Hadlow will go in depth with the Windsor IoC container's new WCF integration facility.

Learn how it allows components built with the Dependency Injection pattern to be published as WCF services and remote services consumed as windsor components.

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Advanced NHibernate Workshop

Featuring Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien

Watch this SkillsCast and 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.

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Castle Workshop

Featuring Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira

Hammett, lead of the Castle project, will run this 1/2 workshop on the Castle Framework

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Magnus Henoch - TFL Journey Angel

Magnus Henoch gave a talk on TFL Journey Angel

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Intro to NHibernate Workshop

Featuring 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.

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OpenRasta - An MVC framework with strong opinions

Featuring 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.

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