NDC London 2013 – Day Two

Day 2 – Build Real World Cloud Apps using Windows Azure Part I and II by Scott Guthrie (@scottgu)
The first and second talks I attended on day 2 were Build Real World Cloud Apps using Windows Azure Part I and II by Scott Guthrie

Scott gave a two part covering the following:-

•Automating Everything
•Source Control Best Practices
•Continuous Integration/Delivery
•Enterprise Identity and SSO Integration
•Web Development Best Practices
•Data Storage Options
•Data Storage Partitioning Approaches
•Using unstructured Blob storage
•Designing to survive failures
•Monitoring and Diagnostics
•Transient Fault Handling
•Distributed Caching
•Using the Queue Centric Work Pattern

Was a really great insight into the capabilities of Azure and how as developers we can use these features for building applications right now.

Day 2 – Automating Testing in the big, bad Enterprise World by Jeremy D. Miller (@jeremydmiller)
The third talk on day 2 I attended was Automating Testing in the big, bad Enterprise World by Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy discussed how his team has a strategy for faster and more productive manual testing and troubleshooting when using RavenDB and just how easy it is to use RavenDB for in memory creation and deletion of the entire database for unit testing purposes. He talked about how automated testing efforts frequently fail because the tests are too time-consuming to author, too brittle when the underlying application changes and showed examples of how he tried to make this process easier.

Day 2 – Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) (@unclebobmartin)
The fourth talk I attended on Day 2 was Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

Uncle Bob talked about a number of things from the past to the future and was as always very entertaining but also thought provoking – this guys a legend and listening to him talking was a pleasure.

Day 2 – AngularJS Directives And The Computer Science Of JavaScript by Burke Holland (@burkeholland)
The fifth talk I attended on Day 2 was AngularJS Directives And The Computer Science Of JavaScript by Burke Holland

Burke gave us a run through of Directives in AngularJS, what they are and how they work showing code samples.

Day 2 – Test Your Javascript…with the Help of D&D by Tim G. Thomas (@timgthomas)
The fifth talk I attended on Day 2 was Test Your Javascript…with the Help of D&D by Tim G. Thomas

Tim talked about how testing JavaScript—the modern Web’s ubiquitous development language—can be a daunting task. In his session he introduced us to some methods to do just that…but with a Dungeons and Dragons twist.