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.

 

 ECC #9 Ward Bell [40:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

 

 ECC#4 Scott Nicols [42:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download