Tag: NDCLondon

Day 3 – Knocking it out the park, with KnockoutJS by Miguel A. Castro (@miguelcastro67)
The first talk I attended on day 3 was Knocking it out the park, with KnockoutJS by Miguel A. Castro

Miguel’s talk walked you through KnockoutJS, what you would use it for and showed you several demos as he went building upon each one as he covered more and more on KnockoutJS. Miguel is a very good speaker, his talk was very well delivered and flowed excellently – his demos were useful and were very well explained.

Day 3 – ASP.NET SignalR 2.0 and beyond by Damien Edwards and David Fowler(@DamianEdwards)
The second talk on day 3 I attended was ASP.NET SignalR 2.0 and beyond by Damien Edwards and David Fowler

Damien Edwards and David Fowler introduced everyone to a new major version of SignalR and what has been added/updated.
There is tighter integration with OWIN, .NET 4.5 server dependency, full support for self-hosting, new clients, massively improved cross-domain/CORS support, API usability improvements, easier hub unit testing and better error handling. We’ll cover all this and give a sneak peak and new features in upcoming releases in this information packed session. Very informative talk which I enjoyed.

Day 3 – The future of C# by Mads Torgersen (blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/)
The third talk I attended on Day 3 was The future of C# by Mads Torgersen

Mads talked about how the past several years, the Microsoft C# team has been focused on rebuilding the compilers and editing experiences as part of Project Roslyn. He also introduced us to potential new language features are on the designers’ minds. Features discussed included read only auto properties, multiple return values, null checking, structural typing is ‘on the radar’.

Day 3 – Object Oriented Design in the Wild by Jessica Kerr (@jessitron)
The fourth talk I attended on Day 3 was Object Oriented Design in the Wild by Jessica Kerr

Jessica talked about the reasoning behind object-oriented design principles, and how we find their application in the wider world. This session will challenge you to go beyond rules and standards and ask, when is clean code worth your time? Go beyond OO and come back with new insight. Interesting talk all about OO in different languages.

Day 3 – ASP.NET SignalR 2.0 and beyond by Damien Edwards and David Fowler(@davidfowl)
The fifth talk on day 3 I attended was Using ASP.NET SignalR in Anger by Damien Edwards and David Fowler

Damien Edwards and David Fowler What showed off the best patterns for using SignalR in a real application – both guys walked through code samples of how to go about doing such a thing and discussed a number of topics including when best to use SignalR as opposed to other technologies.

KeyNote with Dan North – JackStones: the Journey to Mastery (@tastapod)

Dan’s talk was about how you go about becoming a Master at something and was very insightful, Dan talked about a lot of cool stuff and talked about learning how you learn to become at whatever it is your trying to master.

Dan described some of the many facets of craftsmanship and talks about trying to figure out exactly what the craft is that we programmers do.

Day 1 – Cleaning up Code Smell by Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s)
The first talk I attended was Cleaning Up Code Smell by Venkat Subramaniam – his talk was covering ways to identify code smell, how to clean them up. We will also discuss proactive ways to avoid smells in the first place.

Venkat is a superb speaker and covered a lot within 1 hour, his talk was well delivered and he cracked a few good jokes along the way, very entertaining talk.

Day 1 – Simple.Web 101 by Mark Rendle (@markrendle)
The second talk I attended was Simple.Web 101 by Mark Rendle – his talk was covering his .NET/Mono web framework Simple.Web.

Simple.Web applies the SOLID design principles to web application development, and makes building web applications an experience of the deepest joy. Simple.Web makes keeping your code clean, and building real REST/HATEOAS APIs.

Mark talked about why he wrote Simple.Web, showed us some of the code and then showed off some examples of how to use Simple.Web in an application

Day 1 – Introduction to Windows Azure Part I and II by Scott Guthrie (@scottgu)
The third and fourth talks I attended was Introduction to Windows Azure Part I by Scott Guthrie

Scott gave a two part talk which provided an overview of Windows Azure – including a number of demos, and how you can take advantage of it to build great applications in the cloud. His talk was a superb introduction to what Azure is and how you can leverage Windows Azure to build great applications. As always his talks were very informative, every question was given a detailed answer and was a really great way to learn about what Azure can do.

Day 1 – Windows Azure Essentials by Michele Leroux Bustamante (@michelebusta)
The fifth talk I attended was Windows Azure Essentials by Michele Leroux Bustamante

Michele’s session was aimed at getting you up to speed on the essential features developers should be aware of, and how to apply them in practical scenarios on all aspects of Windows Azure.

Michele showed off the differences between web sites and cloud services, as well as other practical tips for building Azure apps such as storing content, sending email, working with queues and choosing the right technology, and collecting important metrics for visibility into application health.

Day 1 – Why Agile doesn’t scale – and what you can do about it by Dan North (@tastapod)
The sixth and final talk I attended was Why Agile doesn’t scale – and what you can do about it by Dan North

Dan talked about shared guiding principles, a clear vision and a common understanding enable what he called contextual consistency. He also talked about delivery assurance, governance and portfolio management in the enterprise.

Was a very interesting talk and a nice end to the day.

NDC London was last week and I have to say I enjoyed every second of it.

This was my first conference and I will hopefully be back, the content each day was fantastic, the choice of content varied enormously and the people who run it, sponsor it and attend it deserve huge credit.

Having the chance to talk to developers from all over the world working on all sorts of projects and that was probably my favourite part of the conference, hugely grateful to my company for giving me this opportunity.

I will cover the 3 days I attended in a separate blog post but for now I just wanted to take the time to thank everyone involved, I managed to chat with of attendees and met some folks I chat to on twitter which was pretty cool.

Big thanks to the guys at Redgate who I managed to chat to and get a demo of some of their tools which I haven’t had the chance to try out as yet, was really nice to put a face to some of them.

I now have my blogging mojo back and have lots of content to go off and learn about – the next blog post coming soon will cover each of the 3 days I spent learning new technologies.

Thanks once more to all involved – hopefully see you again.