Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category

Code Cast #9 - Ward Bell

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Ward Bell, VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade, talked to me at TechEd about DevForce, his company’s ORM product for .Net developers. It didn’t stop there. Ward dropped knowledge on  several other things including:

  • Entity Framework
  • Silverlight
  • Designing for Testability
  • Data access for RIAs

and of course, qualities of Elegant Code.

 
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Code Cast #8 - Jarod Ferguson

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

This week’s Code Cast is a discussion with Jarod Ferguson, an Elegant Coder who takes us through several topics including:

  • Scrum
  • The Seattle Alt.Net conference
  • Open Spaces
  • The Entity Framework
  • The Web Client Software Factory

and plenty more.

 
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Code Cast #7 - Darrel Carver and Mike Moore

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we talk with Mike Moore of the RubyVerse podcast and Darrel Carver, our last guest. Mike listened to Darrel’s interview and had some views of his own on the state of software development.

This discussion focuses primarily on the familiar question of programming as an art or a science, but touches on some of the promising technologies leading us into the next level of our craft. I hope you enjoy the discussion.

This podcast was recorded with Skype.

 
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Code Cast #6 - Interview Darrel Carver

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

In this Code Cast, we meet Darrel Carver, a 30 year veteran of the software industry, an accomplished software architect, and an Elegant Coder.Darrel gives us a little historical perspective on our craft as we explore things like minimalism, the role of the architect, and Model Driven Architectures. This is a great talk. 

 
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Code Cast #5 - Interview With Matt Milner

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

This week’s Elegant Code Cast is an interview with Matt Milner of PluralSight.

Matt is an amazing presenter and fount of knowledge on WCF, WF, and BizTalk. He drops some great knowledge on these subjects and enterprise SOA, along with some discussion of Oslo, Microsoft’s new Model Driven initiative.

 
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Code Cast #4 - Interview With Scott Nichols

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Today’s interview with an Elegant Coder is with Scott Nichols, a solution architect with many years experience in very large IT organizations. Scott shares his wisdom on several subjects including:

  • The role of prescribed architectures and different kinds of architects
  • A look into large systems and companies and scaling development into the hundreds of developers
  • Why to stay in touch with the technical community
  • Microsoft’s CAB framework
  • Practical uses of CSLA in team environments and a deeper look at how to use CSLA
  • Optimizing systems for performance
 
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