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Friday, October 08, 2004

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Patterns and Practices Summit 2004 Report

I was fortunate enough to spend the last three days at the Patterns & Practices Summit which was held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA.

In a word, Awesome!

We had a great lineup of speakers such as:

Jim Newkirk (Father of NUnit) on Test Driven Development
Ron Jacobs (Shadowfax Guy) on Patterns for SOA
Chris Kinsman on Designing for Security and Perf and Scalability
Fernando Guerrero on Data Access
Ted Neward on Platform Interoperability and Instrumenting Applications
Billy Hollis on Smart Client Architecture
Rocky Lhotka on the Middle Tier
Tom Hollander on the upcoming Enterprise Library
Keith Pleas on putting it all together.
and more...

On top of all of those there were also various keynotes, the most memorable of which was by Sandy Khaund on where the PAG is going. I would also be remiss if I did not mention that the man who helped to coordinate this from the local side was none other than our own Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman. Excellent job all around.

Beyond the pure technical knowledge that was imparted, it was also a chance to connect in person with people who I had, in some cases, "met" only online. The other great thing was the ability to leverage their knowledge. Chris Kinsman helped me solve a configuration issue that I had been having with Log4Net and Jim Newkirk was a great source of information on some things I am currently looking at regarding Unit Testing, Daily Builds and more. Tom Hollander as ever was patient in taking some of the "feedback" I have regarding some of the deployment scenarios for the Enterprise Library :-)

All in all, a great, great event and I have to give big kudos to both Sandy and Keith for putting this together!

Category:: Architecture

10/8/2004 7:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time | Comments [2] | Disclaimer | Permalink

Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:06:43 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Thanks for the summary on the event. Unfortuanlty, I was not able to make it down there eventhough I would love to.
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<br>Maxim
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Maxim V. Karpov

Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:06:43 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hopefully you will be able to make it to the next one Maxim.. Regards - Anil

Anil John

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