Rants Tagged with “Speaking”
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I had a great time tonight talking about all things XAML at the Atlanta Visual Basic Study Group. There were plenty of interesting questions and it's clear the Cider and Sparkle have come a long way, but still have a way to go. It was interesting to see how many people seemed to still tie WinFX with Vista and machine upgrades. I am glad to see how well everything runs on my XP boxes.
I was also a bit perplexed at the XAML code that we could generate with Sparkle (including samples) but Cider simply choked on. But since this is Cider's debut I can't be that hard on it.
Overall I think it was a good night to get people thinking about the next gen of smart clients.
For attendees looking for a copy of the presentation, see this link:
http://wildermuth.com/presentations/avalon.ppt
Last night I was interviewed by the .NET Rocks guys for this Tuesday's edition. It’s normally a Monday show, but with the holiday it will be released on Tuesday. Get your Podcast Aggregators ready for my usual curmudgeonly view of the work of development. I'll add a link the actual episode once it is available.
Some might not say that Greenville is much like Camelot, but I visited the Greenville Developers' guild last night to give a talk on what is Avalon (i.e.
Microsoft Presentation Foundation). I had a good time talking with the folks and showing off some interesting demos.
Just got back from an INETA talk in Sarasota, Florida. Great bunch of people down there. I had some very interesting discussion with David Hayden at the bar after the talk about Code Generation, OR Mappers and the relative merit of DataSets in the real world. While we don't quite see eye-to-eye, it was a great discussion. The group's organizer, Stan Schultes, handled the group like a pro. He also got most of us to go out to a great pub with a spectacular beer selection. Nothing as good as a great Hefe on tap!
I love being an INETA speaker...
It looks like I am going to be busy this summer with talks throughout the southeast:
- Sarasota, FL: 6/23
- Greenville, SC: 8/16
- Orlando, FL 9/21
I will probably be talking in Atlanta sometime during the summer too, but i'll let you know when that happens!
I am getting prepared for the Atlanta CodeCamp this weekend. I'll be doing a chalk-talk with the illustrious
Mark Dunn on
ADO.NET 2.0. I'll also be giving a new talk on the Extending the
SQL Server 2005 Type System with Typed XML. Be sure to stop by and say hi!
Just got back from presenting at the Atlanta MDF User Group (SQL Server et al for those not in the know). I had a blast talking about hte SQL Server 2005 CLR Integration. The presentation is available at my site here.
One first theme came out of the night: "The CLR Integration is just another tool. Please don't push your business objects into the database..."
So to sum up what I said at the talk. In my opinion, there are several sweet spots for CLR code to be used in the datbase:
- Stored Procedures/Functions where T-SQL falters; like string manipulation or computationally intensive code.
- Managed User Defined Types for small pieces of data that would be helped with behaviors (SqlMethods).
- Custom Aggregations: Writing your own MIN/MAX/COUNT. This is huge IMHO.
I want to thank everyone who attended....
I'll be doing the tutorial section at the Atlanta .NET User's Group Monday night. Stop by if you're interested in seeing how SmartPhone development works!
I've updated the list of presentations (and links to all the ppts/zips). If you've been looking for the source of a presentation i've recently given, take a look here!
For all those in the Atlanta area, I will be doing a new talk on Data Access with the Compact Framework. I hope to see you all there!
