Ernst Kuschke

Brad Abrams in Cape Town

As Hilton's blog indicates , we'll have the pleasure of chatting with legendary Brad Abrams soon, right here in Cape Town! He will be doing a talk on the planned ASP.NET MVC Framework for SADeveloper.net. Scott Guthrie explains the MVC pattern nicely over here . This is an exciting framework that might(!) remind you of Ruby on Rails . Some open source efforts to bring the rails mentality of CoC and DRY to the .net platform has been attempted before, most notably with the Castle Project ....

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Continuous Integration: Slide Decks

Thanks for everyone that made it out to the Continuous Integration talk ! It was great to have a former employee of Thoughtworks (the guys who developed CruiseControl) in the audience, and it seemed as if many people derived value from the event. Thanks to FoschiniDATA for the venue and the snacks! The slide decks I used for the talk can be found here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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September SA Developer meeting: Continuous Integration

I'll be chatting about Continuous Integration (yes, once again!) next week to the SADeveloper crowd, and it would be great to see you there! Details are as follows: When: 19th September 2007 18h30 - 20h00 Venue: FoschiniData Lefic Building 340 Voortrekker Road Parow East Cape Town (right next to Sanlam Shopping Centre) Topic: Continuous Integration RSVP: Please RSVP here The Extreme Programming (XP) Development Methodology defines many concepts, one them being Continuous Integration , which will...

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SADeveloper.net session, Cape Town

SaDeveloper hosted a developer-session on Saturday on Developing SharePoint Solutions and Office Business Applications (OBA) using .NET at Microsoft Cape Town , which was very well received. It's the first of a series of in-depth enterprise-related sessions you can expect, and because of the length of these, they will take place on Saturdays. (The session received excellent ratings and in general it seems that events on Saturdays might become more popular than some might have anticipated). Thanks...

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SaDeveloper.net LINQ Talk

I think people really enjoyed our LINQ Talk last night! The slide deck I used (containing C# 3.0 language innovations) can be found here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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SADeveloper Talk: Linq

I'll be doing yet another talk on Linq tomorrow evening, this time joining up with Hilton . For those who haven't seen Linq yet, come along and check out this revolutionising new concept. And more importantly: snacks will be provided by the kind folks at Microsoft. Date: 19th April 2007 18:00 - 19:30 Venue: Microsoft, Mowbray, Cape Town ( directions ) Presenters: Ernst Kuschke & Hilton Giesenow Topic: LINQ Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply...

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Linq-to-Sql - what are the implications?

Craig has been posting on the topic a bit lately, and innitially I wanted to respond to his latest post with a comment; it got so long that it warranted a post on itself. For those uninitiated ones, Linq-to-Sql is what used to be called DLinq - this will replace the ADO.NET code we currently use to access data in a relational database. It's important to note that Linq-to-Sql only supports SQL Server as a database . There are many reasons for this, one being that SQL code is generated by the framework...

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SADeveloper UG October Meeting

The next SADeveloper meeting takes place tomorrow night: When: 19th October 2005, 18:00 – 19:00 Venue: (NB!) Torque IT, Rivonia ( Map ) Presenter: Michael Tocik Topic: Crystal XI and .NET Level: Intermediate Objective: At October's Community meeting we'll be exploring the new features in Crystal Reports XI and working with reports in Windows Forms and ASP.NET. Since this is the week before Tech-ED it is also an opportunity to meet up with other people who are going, get into the spirit of things...

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September SADev Meeting: Johannesburg

I'll be talking on Continuous Integration at the next Johannesburg SADev meeting in September: When: 14th September 2005, 18:00 – 19:00 Venue: Torque IT, Rivonia ( Map ) Presenter: Ernst Kuschke Topic: Continous Intergration Level: 300 ( levels ) Objective: The Extreme Programming (XP) Development Methodology defines many concepts, one them being Continuous Integration, which will be discussed in this meeting. Knowledge of the following concepts will be useful, but isn’t compulsory: ·...

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SADeveloper UG Meeting: Issue Tracking in the SDLC

The next SADeveloper meeting is taking place this Thursday. Details are as follows: Topic: Issue Tracking through the SDLC Speaker: Sean Preston Venue: Marriot at Kingsmead Date: 19th May 2005 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 I hope to see many of you there! Please RSVP here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Durban UG Meeting: ASP.NET 2

So, I was driving home after a hectic day at work last night when my phone rang. It was none other than Ruari Plint from Microsoft SA - apparently he will be in town, and how can we let this opportunity slip? He will be talking to us on ASP.NET 2 on Thursday night. Sure, it is a mighty short notice, but there's no way that you can miss this one guys - his ASP.NET 2 sessions was rated the best of all sessions at Tech Ed Africa last year. Date: 14 April 2005 Time: 18:00 for 18:30 Venue: Conference...

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Continuous Integration Session

Last night's session was pretty interesting - thanks to everyone that attended! I've uploaded the presentation (containing links to most tools we discussed) to here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Durban SADeveloper Meeting: Continuous Integration

The next SADeveloper meeting in Durban is scheduled for the 23rd of March - see you all there!!! Date: 23 March 2005 Time: 18:00 for 18:30 Venue: Conference Room, Marriott-at-Kingsmead Topic: Continuous Integration Speaker: Ernst Kuschke I'll post a map to the venue ASAP. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Agile Domain Driven Design

Armand and myself will start a few online Agile tutorials and discussions soon - keep your eyes on SADeveloper .net for details. We plan on having an online, guided Agile project, for members that are keen on learning the Agile processes, to participate in. The most important concept to understand regarding DDD is that everything in your solution is driven by the business domain. Everything in your application can be seen as services to the Business Layer, which is where the real intelligence of...

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Patterns & Practices - Part 2

Tomorrow's session: A: Domain Driven Design and Application Frameworks B: Architecture of a Distributed Application C: Design of a Distributed Application D: Specialized .NET Technologies Required: i) Reflection ii) Remoting iii) Enterprise Services iv) Multi-Threading I hope to see you there tomorrow. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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