At the end of next week I'll be in San Pablo presenting in TechEd Brazil.
I won't be able to exercise my newly acquired Portuguese skills in the presentations as they'll be in Spanish but I guess I'll find plenty of opportunities for that during the 3 days I'll stay there.
I'll have two sessions. One about MVC/Entity Framework and another one about Architecture Tools in VS2010.
The event site is not very link-friendly so if you want to see the details about the presentations, you'll need to open the sessions page and filter by Palestrante = 'Andres Aguiar'.
If you are interested in talking about Infragistics products or in playing with the Build Win8 Tablet I'll be carrying, please contact me through the blog and we'll surely find some time to talk.
You probably heard about Win8 today.
The short story is that they showed a touch-centric shell on top of Win7. Microsoft want us to start building touch-centric apps for that shell using HTML5.
I don’t have any doubts that existing apps will still run with no changes in the old shell.
The main question from a developer point of view is if the only way to write apps for the new shell will be HTML5 or not. IE will keep supporting Silverlight/WPF/Flash, but those won’t be apps in the new shell but apps inside IE.
For me it’s hard to believe that they won’t support a Silverlight flavor for the shell, but I don’t know the answer.
In any case, it’s clear that with this strategy Microsoft is accepting that they’ve lost the war for the developers’ mind with .NET for client applications. They are still fighting it in the server, but not in the client. Silverlight was the last proprietary technology MS used to try to achieve that, and they failed when “multiplatform” changed from Windows-OSX to Windows-OSX-iOS-Android-AndMarketPlaceRulesThatTheyCannotControl.
They need developers writing apps for Windows. Most of client-side developers today are building HTML apps, another big number are writing iOS and Android apps. Learning XAML technologies is difficult and unappealing for them. As they are losing the battle with iOS/Android, going HTML could be their only option if they want to regain the developer’s love.
The tablets with Windows 8 will be very attractive for Windows users, and it’s the OS with more users on Earth. It wouldn’t be surprising if some developers start targeting that as the main platform, in particular if building those apps is easy. I don’t know if there will be a good story for sharing code between web and native apps, but I guess it will. This means it will be much cheaper for developers to support both platforms (tablet win apps and web).
If Microsoft is successful, it would end up killing native development for Android and iOS, because it could force Apple and Google to come up with similar solutions. They won’t own their developer platform as they used to, but at least nobody will own it.
Of course, if they succeed in making HTML5 the main technology for native client-side apps in all Operating Systems, it will also mean we’ll be able to use that technology for building native apps for Windows Phones…
Does all of this means client .NET is ‘dead’? Depending on your definition of ‘dead’.
I'll be presenting on Entity Framework 4.1 today (yeah today, actually in 45 minutes ;), in Microsoft's Uruguay Offices in our first yearly meeting. You know, we say that in Uruguay the year starts after Easter.
Jorge Corral and Sebastián Beceiro from Arkano will be talking about real-world experiencies with Azure.
Given that if you are reading this is highly unlikely that you can stop what you are doing and run to today's meeting, I'm posting the powerpoints
Next Tuesday, October 26th, there will be a new CUMUY meeting. This time, Helena Muñoz from Infragistics Uruguay will be talking about mocking in general and Moq in particular.
Later, Victoria Rodriguez from Arkano will be talking about customization of Sharepoint Libraries.
See you there!
I'll be presenting on Entity Framework at the next CUMUY meeting, next Tuesday, September 28th. Fernando Machado will be talking about Visual Studio LightSwitch.
It won't be the usual introductory or what's new session. I'll dig into our experiences using it while building Quince, show some tricks, and discuss different performance issues.
If you are starting to use EF or evaluating it, you'll get a lot from the presentation. If you've been using it for a while, you'll probably also get some tricks but I hope you can provide the rest of the attendees and myself with some more!
You can register here
Posted from BuqueBus with my IE9
For fourth year in a row Infragistics will be sponsoring the Buenos Aires CodeCamp, and I'll be presenting on our experiences with the Entity Framework while building Quince.
We've been using EF for 2 years and learned what works and what does not, how to architect applications around it, how to (ab)use expression trees to maximize code reuse, how to monitor roundtrips, etc. It’s hard to pick what to show as there are a lot of fun things to talk about.
CodeCamp BA is always a great event and the number and quality of speakers increases every year. Check the Agenda!
Cumuy is organizing a RIA OpenSpaces meeting next Tuesday June 29th at 6.30 PM at Montevideo Microsoft's office.
We'll have @leovernazza from Himalia ;), @lmolfino from d2B, Alex Bonjour / @vertexray from VertexRay, Pablo Panedas from Innicia and whoever wants to show up sharing a conversation about the present and future of RIA technologies.
Please register here .
Everything is coming into place for the Montevideo CloudCamp. GeneXus is also sponsoring the event so we'll have the pleasure of having @gmilano talk about GeneXus and the Cloud or whatever he things is relevant ;).
Make sure you register soon!
On May 4th there will be a TedX Montevideo and a Montevideo CloudCamp. Guess where all the cool kids are going to be? The CloudCamp, of course!
It will be the first ‘Unconference’ in Montevideo, and the brightest minds of the UY Software Development Industry will be there. We’ll be discussing as pairs the challenges and opportunities that the Cloud brings to this corner of the world. Check the list of attendees here and add yourself to that exclusive list before we run out of spots. Entrance is free.
We’ll also have a couple of celebrities from Redmond like @eugenio_pace and @scottdensmore, in addition to the one and only @davenielsen, co-founder of the CloudCamp.
Thanks Microsoft and Infragistics for sponsoring it!
Next Wednesday Dec 16h at 6.30 pm we'll have the last meeting of this year.
I'll be sharing my thoughts and showing some demos of what was announced at PDC 09, and Gabriel Lopez is going to talk about Windows Workflow 4.0.
You can register here. We'll be giving away a free license of NetAdvantage 2009.2!
See you there.
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