Architecture
So You Want to Be an Architect
This session is a quick look at all aspects of being a corporate software architect. Whether you are a developer looking to move into the role of architect, needing to have an understanding of what … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Ken Sipe
Topics: Architecture
Behavior-Driven Development: Turning User Stories into Executable Specifications
You’re Agile. You write User Stories. Now what? The next step is often to turn those User Stories into executable tests that can help you validate the proper behavior of your complex … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Steve Bohlen
Topics: Architecture, Quality and Testing
Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud
There is an increasing importance to architect applications for both growth and optimal user experience. Modern development tools allow you to develop fantastic applications, but there are pitfalls … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Clint Edmonson
Topics: Architecture, Cloud
Peering Through the Clouds - Cloud Architectures You Need to Master
Heard of elastic computing? Cloud-bursting? Off-line rendering? Join us in this session where we walk through the key cloud scenarios every developer should be familiar with and when and where each … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Clint Edmonson
Topics: Architecture, Cloud
SOLID Development Patterns for Mere Mortals
Software development patterns have been around long before the MVC Framework gained momentum. In this session we will start with a review of Robert C. Martin's (Uncle Bob) SOLID macronym. After … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Phil Japikse
Topics: Architecture
Implementing M-V-VM (Model-View-ViewModel) for WPF
Now you are writing WPF applications, and wondering – what is all this code in the code behind? Shouldn’t we be doing something different? Our cousins working with ASP.NET MVC don’t … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Phil Japikse
Topics: Architecture, Windows Phone, WPF
Sniffing Out Success: Identifying Smells and Anti-Patterns in Your Code
This will be an exploratory session reviewing some of the most common and dangerous code smells and anti-patterns with some debate about why they should be avoided. There will be many examples in a … more
Level: Session
Speaker: Patrick Delancy
Topics: Architecture
ASP.NET Roadmap: One ASP.NET – Web Forms, MVC, Web API, and more
Interesting new solutions to internet problems continue to emerge. Realtime, Web APIs, mobile, Gmail-style apps in a single page, and hybrids are the norm. Time to abandon .NET? Let's look at what … more
Level: Keynote
Speaker: Mads Kristensen
Topics: Architecture, ASP.NET, MVC, Web
Architectural Katas
Fred Brooks said, "How do we get great designers? Great designers design, of course." So how do we get great architects? Great architects architect. But architecting a software system is a rare … more
Level: Pre-compiler
Speaker: Ted Neward
Topics: Architecture