As a member of the Telerik Insiders Team, Telerik can help facilitate my delivery of talks at your user group or software development event. If your request is approved, Telerik can provide me financial assistance for my related travel and lodging costs.
View my list of talk abstracts here and click the image above to send a request for me to Telerik!
I’m very excited to be able to announce that as of this past Monday July 12th, 2010 I have officially begun work in my new position as a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. This opportunity represents the next (interesting) step in my software development career and I’m looking very forward to the kinds of things [...]
Who is Wendy Friedlander?
This is a post that’s a bit off-topic but I hope that you will find value in it all the same. Let me take a moment to introduce you to Wendy Friedlander.
Wendy Friedlander is a software developer, loving mom and wife who turned into a cancer-survivor-in-training on 8/14/2009.
It was the weekend of [...]
In case you care (and if you’re reading this I’ll have to assume that either you’re terrible at using search engines to find relevant content on the Internet or else you’re here on purpose and so you probably DO care), my interview on the Community Megaphone Podcast is now published and can be downloaded from [...]
Every day I have a bus commute in and out of Manhattan from Staten Island that takes anywhere from between 45 minutes on the low side to about an hour and a half on the high side (well, that’s not entirely accurate—I’ve had some commutes that have taken over three hours, but fortunately only when [...]
Well, the event evaluation forms for last weekend’s NYC CodeCamp are IN and have been tallied. And the winner is…
Just kidding. There is no winner because this year we decided to do a few things differently than in years past:
Eval forms didn’t contain numeric scoring for pre-defined categories (e.g., “Speaker was knowledgable about their topic”, [...]
>Whew!< After a pretty crazy January and February of preparation leading up to the event, I’m really pleased to announce that the 4th Annual NYC CodeCamp is officially OVER (Thank God!). This past Saturday March 6th, 2010 we held the actual event and I have to say that based on just about every metric I [...]
Last evening (Thursday) I had the pleasure of being asked to speak at the monthly meeting of the Philadelphia Alt.NET User Group. As mentioned previously in this post here, I delivered my “Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for Domain Driven Design in .NET” presentation to an enthusiastic audience of about 40-50.
A big thanks to everyone who took [...]
Next Thursday evening (2/4/2010) from 6:00pm-9:00pm I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia Alt.NET user group on real-world Domain Driven Design implementation patterns in .NET.
The full title of the session is going to be “Lessons from the Trenches: Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for DDD in .NET” and the overview synopsis will be:
In this session, we’ll take a [...]
Its time for the semi-annual “What is ALT.NET and what does it mean to me?” introspection merry-go-round.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: introspection is a healthy form of self-review and an expression of self-awareness for both people and organizations/movements/shared-value-systems/whatever ALT.NET might be. The last time this theme surfaced (to my knowledge) [...]
This is a public call for greater community participation in the Virtual Alt.Net online community for 2010 and beyond.
What is Virtual Alt.Net?
Virtual Alt.Net is an online community that met weekly over the past year or so utilizing Live Meeting as a platform for exposing as many people as possible to software development concepts and [...]
