Hibernate / nHibernate

Sander’s talk at TechEd US 2010. How frameworks can kill your projects and patterns to prevent getting killed

By shoogend at 20 June, 2010, 12:48 pm

Last week, the Microsoft TechEd North America 2010 took place in the great city of New Orleans. I was lucky to be invited to do a talk on how frameworks can kill your projects. When it comes to Microsoft .NET-connected development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and from open source. [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

Slide deck on Pragmatic model driven development at J-Spring

By shoogend at 15 April, 2009, 12:39 pm

Model driven development has a promise of high productivity. However, many approaches fail to deliver. Sander Hoogendoorn (Capgemini) and Rody Middelkoop (Avisi) will present a very pragmatic approach to model driven development, based on modeling smart use cases and domain models in UML. The speakers elaborate enthusiastically on this approach and the techniques used, and [...]

Talk at J-Spring conference. Pragmatic model driven development using smart use cases and domain driven design

By shoogend at 15 April, 2009, 8:51 am

Today Rody Middelkoop, senior technology consultant at Avisi and lecturer at the HAN and I will do an amusing talk at the J-Spring Conference in Bussum on model driven development, using a highly pragmatic approach. Talk includes a live demo where we will build a Java web application on stage in a few minutes (the [...]

Pragmatic model driven development in Java with smart use cases and domain driven design

By shoogend at 3 March, 2009, 11:33 am

In our Accelerated Delivery Platform we generate code from our standardized smart use cases and the domain model, using our Tobago MDA tooling. See www.accelerateddeliveryplatform.com for more details. In our daily practice we generate for a variety of architectures in the .Net space. For instance, we apply our own frameworks, or combine these with open [...]