November 2008 Entries
Last Monday night I gave a presentation at the local St. Louis .NET user group (www.stlnet.org). My presentation was on some of the new extensibility infrastructures available in .NET. More specifically, I talked about IoC/DI containers, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), and CLR Add-Ins via the System.AddIn infrastructure. While these user group presentations usually range from 10,000 foot marketing overviews of products all the way down to "in the weeds" developer discussions, I intentionally...
I'm finally happy to announce the upcoming St. Louis Day of .NET conference. As some of you may have seen in my recent blog postings, I recently got back from PDC in LA. Unfortunately not everyone gets that opportunity (and I haven't been to a conference since Tech-Ed in 2001 so I know the feeling :) So, as there are no great, easy to get to conference opportunities here in St. Louis and we do have a very active and growing community of .NET developers, myself and a few of my peers from other local...
It's been a three or four days now since I returned from PDC. After seeing all the other bloggers give detailed descriptions of the sessions and parties I didn't feel too obligated to add too much of my own spin on topics heavily covered by others. Instead, I thought I'd wait till the recordings were available and share links to the highlights I was witness too. As to my thoughts on having the recordings available so quickly after the conference and of such a high quality, I can only say I am very...