Adam's Wonderblog

Code and Demos from my KCDC Talks

adam — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:38:00 +0000

I had a great time this weekend speaking at KCDC this weekend. Thank you to everyone who attended my sessions. I gave two, and I’ve included links to the the slides and demos for each below. They were recording the sessions this weekend, too, so if I can find a link to the recording, I will post that as well.

Caliburn.Micro.Awesome

The debate over which presentation layer architecture to use in WPF and Silverlight applications was over before it began: MVVM is the clear winner. The subsequent discussion about which MVVM Framework is best was a bit more contentious. It shouldn’t be. I believe the only people who don’t choose Caliburn.Micro for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone applications either don’t know about it, or don’t realize how amazing and simple it is. In this session I’ll show you what Caliburn.Micro is capable of, and how easy it is to get started!

Slides and demos: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27019465/Talks/Caliburn.Micro.Awesome.zip

From the Steps of the Ivory Tower

Writing code in the real world is a never-ending set of tradeoffs, most of which involve trading performance, elegance, maintainability, etc… for decreased time to market. We could spend a lifetime perfecting a code base – writing code from our Ivory Tower. But that won’t get us far with our employers, who need to get a product to the customer. In this session, I’ll give you some tips on coding from the steps of the Ivory Tower. That is, writing code that’s close to the impeccable quality of Ivory Tower, without spending a lifetime writing it.

Slides: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27019465/Talks/Caliburn.Micro.Awesome.zip

I will be giving the Ivory Tower talk again next weekend at Iowa Code Camp! Hope to see you Iowa folks there!

Using MVVM Frameworks – Slides and demos

adam — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:53:21 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came to my “Using MVVM Frameworks” talk at Iowa Code Camp and South Dakota Code Camp.

Using MVVM Frameworks – Slides and Demos

Code Camps

adam — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:50:17 +0000

Wow – last post was about the April Iowa Code Camp. Shame on me.

I just spoke at the Iowa Code Camp this past weekend. Great event, as usual. My topic was “Using MVVM Frameworks”. I spent time discussing both the MVVM Light and Caliburn.Micro MVVM frameworks. I’ll post the slides and demos from that talk soon.
I will also be giving the same talk this weekend at the innagural South Dakota Code Camp!

Please visit http://www.SouthDakotaCodeCamp.net for more information and to register.

Taking Your OOP Skills to the Next Level

adam — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:27:30 +0000

Thanks to everyone who showed up for my session at Iowa Code Camp. I had a great time, I hope all ICC attendees did as well, and hopefully you learned something today.

Here are the slides and demos from my talk:

IowaCodeCamp-OOP.zip

Iowa Code Camp

adam — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:17:22 +0000

I’ve been selected to speak at the upcoming Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids, IA. I’ll be talking about “Taking Your OOP Skills to the Next Level”. Check out the schedule and register to attend if you’re interested!

I’ll post slides and demos on my blog after the session is over.

Hope to see you there!

I’m back!

adam — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:01:46 +0000

I recently learned the hard way that my hosting company does NOT back up user SQL databases. Not sure if I’m way off in assuming that they would – maybe I am. Anyway, my first fairly decent attempt to blog more was wiped out a couple months ago, and I just haven’t had the time to care.

But now I’m back, and hopefully better than ever! I’m pretty busy the next couple weeks, but fully intend to start blogging regularly soon.

And I’ve set up nightly backups of my database this time.