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

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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: Which frameworks do you use in .Net projects?

Benefits and pitfalls of using frameworks

In short, during this talk I will address both the benefits and pitfalls of applying frameworks to your projects. Be it Microsoft frameworks, open source frameworks or even self developed frameworks, there’s always a catch.

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What if you require additional features that aren’t implemented in the framework? What if you decide that another framework would have been better and want to switch halfway your project? What if the author of your favorite open source framework suddenly stops developing? What if the framework contains bugs or omissions? And what if a new version of the framework is released that is implemented totally different? These and many more everyday problems will cause your project to come to a halt, or at least make you perform serious refactoring.

So, I will address some pragmatic software architectures and patterns that will help your projects to stay away from framework problems, and how to make your code less dependent of framework choices.

Which frameworks do you use?

This brings me to my question to you. I’m curious to which frameworks you use – Microsoft, open source and / or own developed, and what your experiences are with these frameworks. Where they helpful, challenging or just plain crap?

Please fill in the little survey I’m conducting at
Survey: Which frameworks do you use in .Net projects?

The days are just packed. My talks in May and June 2009

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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 estimation seminar for Community of Practice Methods & Tools.
  • May 13. Achieving business flexibility with smart use cases. Keynote at seminar on  business flexibility at Synobsis, Castle Lage Vuursche, Baarn. See www.synobsys.nl.
  • May 14. Estimating with smart use cases. Half-day seminar for Array Seminars, NBC Nieuwegein. See www.arrayseminars.nl.
  • May 25. An introduction to smart use cases. Presentation at Capgemini event for large customer, Utrecht.
  • May 26. Agile requirements and smart use cases. Half-day presentation at Capgemini BAS, Apeldoorn.
  • May 28. Navigating through the hypes. Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash. Interactive talk on frameworks and how they can kill your projects at Microsoft DevDays, Congrescentrum Den Haag. See www.devdays.nl.

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  • 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 Nieuwegein. See www.arrayseminars.nl.
  • June 15 & 16. Smart use cases from front to back. Custom two-day interactive workshop for information and business analysts of large Capgemini client at Capgemini Papendorp, Utrecht. Includes introduction of smart use cases, estimating smart use cases, smart use cases in service oriented architecture, testing smart use cases, domain driven design, agile, Smart / Scrum.
  • June 18. Mission impossible? Introducing agile in service oriented SAP projects. Talk at Integrate Agile Conference with Twan van den Broek, Topforce, for the Agile Consortium Benelux, Claus, Badhoevedorp. I didn’t notice that I have a double booking until now… trying to solve it.
  • June 18 & 19. Pragmatic modeling using UML and beyond. Fully packed two-day workshop on UML, modeling, smart use cases, requirements, domain driven design, model driven development and modeling in agile projects for IT Works, Hotel Crowne Plaza, Antwerp, Belgium. See www.itworks.be.
  • June 26. Agile anti-patterns. Yes, your agile projects can fail too. Entertaining talk on how to make your agile and Scrum projects fail, at the SDN Event in Hotel Houten, Houten. www.sdn.nl

Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash – this year’s DevDays talk.

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Good to hear that I’ve made the program of this year’s Microsoft DevDays. Will be a challenging talk on software architecture and patterns, titled just like this blog post. Here’s the description. Hope you like it.

Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash

When it comes to .Net software development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and in open source. Just think of all the very useful frameworks, such as ASP.NET MVC, Castle, WF, Entity Framework, Unity, Linq2SQL, ADO.NET Data Services, WCF, nHibernate, Spring.NET, CSLA, NUnit, Enterprise Library or ADF.

Once a project chooses to apply one or more frameworks, trouble begins. What if you require additional features that aren’t implemented in the framework? What if you decide that another framework would have been better and want to switch halfway your project? What if the author of your favorite open source framework suddenly stops developing? What if the framework contains bugs or omissions? And what if a new version of the framework is released that is implemented totally different? These and many more everyday problems will cause your project to come to a halt, or at least make you perform serious refactoring.

During this highly interactive talk Sander Hoogendoorn, principal technology officer at Capgemini, chief architect of Capgemini’s agile Accelerated Delivery Platform, and member of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Advisory Board, will demonstrate pragmatic software architectures and patterns that will help your projects to stay away from framework problems, and how to keep your code independent of framework choices. In his well known slightly ironic style Sander will present different models of layered architectures, and explain and use bridge patterns, managers, dependency injection, descriptors, and layer super-types.

Of course, the speaker will illustrate these insightful patterns with lots of demo’s and (bad) code examples using blocks from Microsoft’s Enterprise Library, nHibernate, Log4Net, and the Entity Framework. Delegates will benefit from this talk by learning how to improve the structure and quality of their software architecture and code, and how to avoid the pitfalls of applying frameworks to .Net software development.