Frameworks

Simple little things. The 42 extension method anti-pattern

By shoogend at 2 September, 2010, 4:49 pm

Extension methods are a powerful feature in .NET, and have been increasingly adopted by the developer community. Also, LINQ and other framework features rely heavily on extension methods. In fact, extension methods were originally invented to be able to implement LINQ without having to change a lot of .NET framework base classes. Basically, an extension [...]

Spring 2010 speaking engagements

By shoogend at 15 March, 2010, 12:44 am

Again doing a lot of talks this spring on a wide range of subjects, from new technology, via enterprise agile to model driven development, but also about smart use cases, domain driven design, UML, and software architectures, design patterns, frameworks and .NET. This season’s highlights? Not a difficult choice: doing talks both at Microsoft DevDays [...]

October 19. Talk. “Do’s and don’t in implementing and applying extension methods”

By shoogend at 19 October, 2009, 1:38 pm

SDC Conference, Papendal, Arnhem (www.sdc.nl) Next week the annual SDC conference will take place at Papendal, Arnhem. As usual the organising SDN community has put together a long list of international appraised speakers, and challenging subjects on the matter of software development and software architecture. A bit to my surprise, this year I was invited [...]

Writing better software faster

By shoogend at 5 October, 2009, 10:53 pm

Published in my Interesting Things column in SDN Magazine, November 2009. Looking back on twenty years of software development, I must have spent most of that time trying to improve the quality and productivity of software development. Ever since I started to write small applications in Turbo Pascal in 1988 I got infected with the [...]

September 10, 2009. Keynote “Building better software faster”

By shoogend at 10 September, 2009, 12:14 pm

Customer event Capgemini, at Capgemini Papendorp. Together with a large customer Capgemini organizes a number of (non-public, sorry) knowledge sessions on Microsoft technology – aimed at developers, architects and project management. September 10 will be the first of those knowledge sessions, with talks on Microsoft Duet, Surface and Cloud / Azure. Preceeding those interesting stories [...]

Extension methods. The overlooked language feature

By shoogend at 18 August, 2009, 1:30 pm

This post was published in .NET Magazine. I recently did a talk at the SDC Conference at Papendal, Arnhem, discussing this topic. As you’re probably have been made aware of in abundance, in .Net 3.5 Microsoft introduced a little language feature called LINQ. Although LINQ has been demonstrated at all major and minor conferences, the [...]

June 2009

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:33 am

My talks in June 2009. June 3. Agile software development in everyday practice. Full-day seminar on doing agile projects for IT Works, Hotel Pullman, Diegem, Belgium. With guest speaker Stefaan van Royen, Mediamine. See www.itworks.be. June 9. Pragmatic .Net development. Full-day seminar on software architectures and patterns for .Net software development for Array Seminars, .NBC [...]

May 2009

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:29 am

The months May and June are notorious for the number of talks – as Rick van der Lans describes: May and June are speaker’s season. Just to remind me not to forget any of my upcoming talks, here’s a list: May 12. Project estimation with smart use cases. At Capgemini, Utrecht. Presentation at internal software [...]

SDN software architecture event 25 juni [in Dutch]

By shoogend at 16 June, 2009, 11:10 pm

Speciaal voor Software Architects organiseert het SDN op donderdagavond 25 juni een SDN Event met twee hoogstaande sessies die architectects zeker zullen aanspreken. Het event vindt plaats in Hotel Houten (in Houten). Sander Hoogendoorn doet zijn sessie: Navigeren door een woud van frameworks. Edward Bakker en Clemens Reijnen presenteren: Architectural Inspections with VSTA2010 and Application [...]

Survey. Which frameworks do you use in .Net projects?

By shoogend at 25 May, 2009, 12:24 am

Later this week I will be doing a talk at the Microsoft DevDays conference at the Congrescentrum in Den Haag. This talk is titled Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash. Read more about it at www.devdays.nl. Please fill in the little survey I’m conducting at Survey: [...]