The next Augusta Developers Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, January 29th, at 6PM at Augusta State University. Kathleen Dollard will be our speaker. Kathleen will be presenting "Block Based Development". Please RSVP by sending us an email so we know how much food to order.

Meeting Summary
When: Thursday, January 29th, 2009 @ 6PM
Where: Augusta State University, University Hall, Room 170 ( Directions )
Who: Kathleen Dollard
Sponsor: INETA ( http://www.ineta.org )

Agenda
6:00 Food and Networking
6:20 Announcements and Sponsors
6:30 Presentation
8:00 Closing and Giveaways

Block Based Development
Applications run today in chunks. They reside in thin and thick layers on intelligent devices, web servers, and application servers. We chop up applications across logical data tiers, physical location, and ownership.
This session focuses on the human scale engineering behind these chunks and how these blocks work together to manage the broader picture of your application-comparing and contrasting services, workflow activities, and plug-ins/add-ins. You'll see how these three differing approaches are synergistic and apply in many deployment scenarios as well as how interfaces define the relationship and free each block to significantly change internal implementation. Whether you're background is Windows or Web, you'll leave better prepared to choose the right tools to build application ecosystems developed and maintained in manageable blocks that can be individually prioritized and completed by reasonably-sized teams in response to business requirements.
 

Presenter - Kathleen Dollard
Kathleen Dollard is a consultant, author, trainer, and speaker. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years and has spoken about .NET in 28 states and 5 countries. She’s written dozens of articles including the “Ask Kathleen” column in Visual Studio Magazine. She also wrote “Code Generation in Microsoft .NET” (Apress). Her passion is helping programmers be smarter in how they develop by learning to better use .NET languages, libraries and platforms. She works with WPF, WF, as well as core technologies including System.AddIn. She’s currently creating template infrastructure for code generation using VB XML literals. After working on the problem of capturing business intent in metadata and test definitions for years, she’s working with industry improvements in these areas. She’s also working on full life cycle improvements, such as unit testing, better debugging and static analysis (FxCop). When not working, she enjoys woodworking, snowshoeing, and kayaking depending on the outdoor temperature.