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”, [...]
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 [...]
Episode 23 of the Connected Show podcast has been released! In this episode, host Peter Laudati interviews Andrew Brust about what he saw at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and then proceeds to interview none other than yours-truly about some of the work that myself and others have been doing with the Agile Firestarter [...]
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 [...]
For those of you who missed out on the first NYC Agile Firestarter that the NY ALT.NET User Group and the NY .NET User Group jointly organized in June of 2009, I just wanted to announce that there is a ‘sister’ event coming soon to the Central NJ Area: The Central NJ .NET Agile Firestarter! [...]
As some of you may be aware, yesterday (Saturday 10/3/2009) the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter Event was held here in NYC. This event, hosted and organized by Microsoft, was a free day-long event intended to help .NET WebForms developers begin to come up-to-speed on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework. As mentioned on this blog prior, I [...]
