DevWeek 2010

Just got back from DevWeek 2010.  Here is a list of things I need to follow up on from the sessions I attended:

A Day of ASP.NET 4.0 : Fritz Onion

• MemCache
• Chart Control
• GridView/ListView ‘remembers’ selected
• Query Extender
• Html Encode syntax and HtmlString class
• AJAX 4.0
  • Script Loader/Manager
  • Sys.Require
  • Sys.onReady
  • CDN
  • Extender Controls.js
  • Client Templates {{propName}}
  • .sys-template class
  • Sys.create.dataView(“#id”, { data : data })
  • sys: prefix on attributes
  • Sys.bind(Sys.Get(“selector”))
• Routing in ASP.NET Forms
  • RouteValue, RouteUrl, RouteParameter
• Web Application rather than Web Site
• Deployment:
  • Package/Publish, XDT in config files
  • IIS Import on farm
• .svc services /js to get client proxy
  • [DataContract] [DataMember]
  • live binding {binding Title}
  • Sys.Observer.makeObservable(itemsArray);
  • Sys.Data.DataContext
• ADO.NET Dynamic Data

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know : Kevlin Henney

• Bought the book

Objects of Desire : Kevlin Henney

• Parameter Objects
• Pass in Context
• Interpreter / Aggregator Patterns
• Getter/Setter problem
• Keep object valid at all times
• Privatize
• LSP
• UML Inheritance Hierarchies
• Layering: Concept <– Realisation
• Layering: Domain –> Services –> Infrastructure
• Apathy, ignorance, selfish
• Names based on client usage not implementation

VSTS 101 – a beginner’s guide : Brian Randell

• Project Collection (single db) > Team Project
• Static Code Analysis
• Code Metrics
• Check-in policies
• Team Build
• Test impact analysis
• VS Profiler?!
• Mostly MS marketing

Agile DB techniques using VS 2010 : Giles Davies

• Build Screen Saver, Brian the build bunny
• Extension Properties for schema version number
• Data Transfer Plan, Data Generation Plan
  • Data bound generator
• Got to use this!

Intro to Sharepoint 2010 from ASP.NET devs : Fritz Onion

• VS 2010 makes it easier.  Needs huge buy in.

Entity Framework in .NET 4 and VS 2010 : Eric Nelson

• Entity Data Model (EDM)
  • Conceptual
  • Mapping
  • Storage
• Lots of new goodness in 4.0
• Insert Key
• Foreign Key surfaced
• ExecuteStoreQuery
• EntityFunctions
• Extension Manager
• Feature Pack (POCO, code only, self-tracking)
• Persistence Ignorance
• http://bit.ly/ericnelson 

Code contracts and design for testability : Dino Esposito

• Preconditions
• Postconditions
• Invariants
• Interface contracts
• Tools (rewriter, static checker, asm ref gen)
• Contract Failure handling (in UT or logging)

Are singletons evil? : Andy Clymer & Kevin Jones

• Singleton
• Repository
• Factory
• Dependency Injection

Objects of value : Kevlin Henney

• aka Attribute Object
• No/insignificant identity
• Create Value Objects that exist in the domain and ‘wrap’ simple types
• Systems of Values
• POVO
• Patterns of Value : Immutable Value, Copied Value
• Three finger rule: Identity, State, Behaviour
• Smells: Anaemia and Multiple Stereotypes
• Anatomy: Construction, Comparison, Classification and Conversion
• Domain specific
• Equals
• My MonetaryAmount example

Programming with GUTs : Kevlin Henney

• Things not to test in UT (perhaps in Integration tests)
• POUT, TDD, DDT
• Test per proposition not per method
• Naming:
  • proposition not implementation
  • Underscores
• Example based
  • Simple cases
  • Common cases
  • Boundary cases
  • Contractual error cases (rainy day)
• Better roughly right than precisely wrong
• Black box

Patterns dartboard : Andy Clymer & Kevin Jones

• Adapter / Proxy
• Null
• Active Record
• Strategy

Is the free lunch over? : Andy Clymer

• Fork/Join (Parallel.Invoke, Tasks)
• Pipeline (Queues, production line, stages)
• Geometric decomposition (Break down the data)
• Use Sequential version as UT?
• Parallel Loops (loop of loops, Barrier)
• Monte Carlo (educated guesses, best result in time T)

Use threads effectively to build responsive & scalable software : Jeffery Richter

• Threads are bad
• Threads are good
• Async Programming Model (APM)
• ThreadPool and Tasks
• AsyncEnumerator