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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

Tech Ed NZ 2008 Day 1

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, September 1st, 2008

Hey hey hey, it’s another tech ed here in Auckland an another three day stint of me writing up my experiences of the talks that I go to and the things that I learn.

Instead of going through the day I’m actually going to start in the middle and work out.

Moving Beyond Industrial Software – Harry Pierson

So, this was possibly the most unexpected gem of a talk today, I wouldn’t have picked the talk on title, but there wasn’t much else on in the slot.

Rather than being about a technology or a specific thing coming out of Microsoft, Harry’s talk was about taking the overview of the whole IT industry, how it’s reflection should be in the post industrial age and how so many of the tools and techniques we have come to use and expect (especially in big it but applicable in all organizations) are starting to get torn apart as we refuse to follow the tenants of the factory work mentality.

His suggestions about how we should look at our role in the future were radical, and I’m sure scary to a number of people in the audience, but I agree with his assessment of the future, the game is changing, albeit slowly, and if people don’t take notice they’re gonna have their lunch eaten. I’ll try and write up a longer overview but for the moment try his blog: http://www.devhawk.net/

AJAX Enable your Windows communication foundation services- Rob Bagby

I have to admit I’m not sure if I got anything new from this one, mainly because I’ve done some heavy work with the WebRequest endpoint in the past, however there was a lot of really useful stuff, and the demos were really in depth, lots of JavaScript

ASP.Net MVC – Scott Hanselman

Ok first off let me say if you’ve never seen Scott talk, and you get a chance, do it. He is one of the most charismatic and engaging tech speakers I’ve seen. He also represents the somewhat new wave of evangelists coming from Microsoft who kind of get the reasons why people have been so actively against ms in the past.

This was the talk that I wish I could have given yesterday at Code Camp, it was engaging an enlightening, it crystallized for me a great deal about how to explain the way MVC is formed and shaped and the why. I love the MS MVC Framework, but i got more inspiration from the last talk of the day