November 2008 Entries

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Wrap up

Over the past few days I have been honored to be at the Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp in Philadelphia, PA. I have also been posting updates every day. A few people have asked me if this course is worth it. I would say if you want to be passionate about what you do (or if you already are), then the answer is a resounding YES!! The sheer amount of benefit you get from knowledge and participation, you may feel like you are a bandit making out with only having had to pay the extremely reasonable...
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Posted On Monday, November 24, 2008 12:28 AM | Feedback (4)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day 5

Friday was the last day of the training course and today we went over a couple of patterns and had a discussion on Domain Driven Design. After the discussion, we were released to continue working on our end to end solution. The team I was on (Go Conquistadors!) got all the way down to the database second out of four teams. We were first to have all parts vertical though. Then we started to refine our design even more. And that is where we left the solution on Friday night. People Bowing Out As the...
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Posted On Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day 4

So you may notice this post is a little late. The course moved to an open format today and the last people left for the night at 4:30 AM. That's 9 AM to 4:30 AM. Basically today we got direction from JP and then formed groups that we worked with all day to implement an end to end solution from the point that we were already at. One of the things you will push yourself for today is understanding fluent interfaces to whatever extent that you can. The other part is how to build them. They are much harder...
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Posted On Friday, November 21, 2008 4:49 AM | Feedback (0)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day 3

Today the most important thing is Coffee! When you take this course (not if *grin*) you definitely need to get coffee after lunch. Some things of note today: Group Interaction There is a lot more group interaction with tasks and the tasks are getting to a point where they take quite a bit lot longer to complete. Group dynamics has definitely picked up and come into play a lot more because by the third day you are much more comfortable with everyone. I am seeing personalities coming out as we get...
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Posted On Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:04 AM | Feedback (1)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day Two

Today has been awesome! More of what we learned yesterday, plus more. We got more in depth into certain patterns and have had a huge helping of BDD all day long. The format has been that JP has written the specs and we get the tests to pass. The format looks like it will start to shift to JP doing less and less code and us doing more and more of it. Three Project Solution So one thing I immediately picked up on is the 3 project solution. One of the projects holds all of the automation and automated...
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Posted On Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:39 PM | Feedback (0)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day One EOD Update

Today I learned I have a lot to learn! Patterns, Delegates, Lambdas, PSake, Extension Methods, etc, etc, etc. Photo credit to Hikako. So far we have went through patterns and principles. Ones that come to mind are the Strategy Pattern, Static Gateway Pattern, Decorators, and Specification Pattern. We also got into SRP (single responsibility principle), OCP (open closed principle), Composition over Inheritance, BDD (behavior driven design), DDD (domain driven design), and then we talked a little about...
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Posted On Monday, November 17, 2008 10:19 PM | Feedback (0)

Nothin but .NET Developer Boot Camp - Day One Midday Update

My brain hurts. That is all. Delegates FTW
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Posted On Monday, November 17, 2008 3:50 PM | Feedback (2)

Going Back to Boot Camp

In 1998 I went through Basic Combat Training for the United States Army. It was 9 weeks of grueling, awesome and exhausting training. It was training that definitely pushed the limits of your body and mind. I learned quite a lot and the training forever shaped the person I am today. Next week, I will have the opportunity to go to Boot Camp again, but this time it will be for .NET development. JP Boodhoo, a great guy who I met at Alt.NET, conducts a course known as Nothin' But .NET Developer Boot...
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Posted On Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:02 PM | Feedback (4)