While we as software developers are used to learning lessons and adopting techniques from other disciplines, it is not often that we look to the martial arts for new ideas on development approaches. However, this blog post does just that.
The author end with the following thought:
In the end, follow Bruce Lee’s advice: Examine what others have to offer, take what is useful, and adapt it if necessary. I’ll close with an old quote: “The style doesn’t make the fighter, the fighter makes the style.” Or should I say: The process doesn’t make the developer, the developer makes the process.
I agree with this 1000% – we often try to blindly adopt the latest silver bullet, rather than taking the essential ideas and tailoring them for our particular environment/situation.
What do you think ?
Note the special date of this meeting - Wednesday March 24, 2010
For our March 2010 meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group we have the opportunity for a special meeting with Brad Abrams from Microsoft Corp, who will in Israel for the Developer Academy 4 event. Our user group meeting will be held on Wednesday March 24, 2010. This meeting will focus on building Line of Business applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010.
Abstract: Building Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010
Learn how to build n-tier Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on Silverlight by tapping the power of WCF RIA Services. Walk you through an example of building an application from scratch using the pattern run-time components and tools provided by RIA Services. See how it helps you write application logic to expose data and operations in a carefully controlled fashion using tools integrated into Visual Studio with support for validation, authentication, authorization and handling units of work. We will also cover how to componentize your application so it can be incrementally downloaded using the Managed Extensions Framework.
As always, we'll have our special "Hatzilu" session at our meeting. So please come prepared to discuss your most frustrating problems (or at least some of them!) and to share some of your own techniques and solutions that you have found useful in your applications.
Please register for this event at:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032446300&Culture=he-IL
See you there !!
The March meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developer User Group (IDNDUG)
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Location:
Microsoft Israel
2 Hapnina St,
Ra'anana
(09) 7625-100
Floor 0 , Dekel Room
It is the building across from Amdocs.
Turn right at the first traffic circle and then there is an area for (free) parking.
17:30 - 18:00 Assembly
18:00 - 19:15 “Building Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 – Part 1”
Brad Abrams, Microsoft Corp.
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 – 20:30 “Building Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 – Part 2”
Brad Abrams, Microsoft Corp.
About the speaker:
Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework. Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework.
Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library). Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard.
Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.
Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science. Find recent musings from Brad on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/