Applying useful testing patterns using TestStack.Dossier

• When: Fri May 29 21:30:00 2015

The Object Mother, Test Data Builder, Anonymous Variable/Value, equivalence class and constrained non-determinism patterns/concepts can help you make your tests more readable/meaningful, more terse and more maintainable when used in the right way.

This talk will explain why and where the aforementioned patterns are useful and the advantages they can bring and show examples in code using a library I recently released called TestStack.Dossier.

About Rob

Robert is a Principal Consultant and Technical Specialist (Microsoft Azure) for Readify. He specialises in leading and mentoring software teams to deliver business value. He has had a range of experience working with organisations to introduce and/or improve the use of Agile, Lean and continuous delivery approaches and this is an area he is particularly passionate about. While Robert has experience in a range of technologies, he specialises in C#, ASP.NET and Microsoft Azure.

React, another JavaScript UI framework?

• When: Fri May 29 20:45:00 2015

React is still a relatively new player in the JavaScript UI framework but it’s been gaining a lot of traction and popularity. What makes React different to the others that are out there? Do people actually want to write HTML inside their JavaScript files

About Aaron

By day Aaron works as a Senior Consultant for Readify, but night he is an IE MVP, battling to save the world one line of JavaScript at a time. Having spoken at a number of conferences in Australia and around the world on the web it’s time to take the shenanigans to the virtual conference world and look at the state of front-end web development.

IoC in ASP.NET 5

• When: Fri May 29 20:00:00 2015

In the last few years IoC became a de facto part of the modern application structure, especially with the interesting features the IoC containers bring along. The ASP.NET team realized this from the beginning and baked the IoC within the products (MVC, WebAPI, SignlarR), but each web product ended up having its own IoC infrastructure, making it difficult to use a unified IoC for all the different products on the new single stack with OWIN.

So with the recent changes brought forward with ASP.NET 5, IoC is now deeply integrated within this single stack, providing the same infrastructure for all. In this session you will learn how the new IoC infrastructure works, what all these new “UseService” API’s are all about, and how the different IoC containers can be integrated.

Working Distributed - How Does It Even Work?

• When: Thu May 28 21:30:00 2015

I’ve been fortunate enough to work for a distributed team for the past 18+ months. But for developers or teams who are considering this option, what does this actually involve? How can you maximise your chances of success? How can you actually be productive and happy no matter where you are?

In this talk I’ll cover a few topics that are near and dear to my heart:

• Actually being remote - is it really all about the lack of pants?
• Timezones - are they really that bad?
• Communications - can you be inclusive without drowning in noise?
• Inter-personal stuff - have they synthesized the human touch yet?
• Vision and strategy - how do you keep everyone on the same page?

Sitefinity CMS

• When: Thu May 28 20:45:00 2015

I would love to talk about Sitefinity CMS and how powerful is it, I might share more than case study for big brands like “Budget Rentals” where we have used Sitefinity CMS as a powerful backend, Html, Jquery for mobile front end and little API layer to communicate

About Bishoy

Bishoy has a Bachelor Degree in Engineering and Microsoft .Net Certifications [MCPD, MCTS, MCAD and Sitefinity Certified Developer] as well as 10 years of professional experience in the field of Software engineering.

10 unusual tips & tricks for .NET

• When: Thu May 28 20:00:00 2015

In this talk, we’ll highlight 10 less well known features of .NET. Features that may not be used by most developers very often. But if you know they’re available, then it’s good to know that they’re sitting in your toolbox, ready for action!

About David

David Gardiner has been creating software for over 20 years and has a passion for continual learning and improving quality. He helps run the Adelaide .NET User Group and works as a Senior Software Developer at RL Solutions on healthcare software. He blogs at http://david.gardiner.net.au and tweets at @DavidRGardiner.

The Secret of Transactions and Async/Await

• When: Wed May 27 21:30:00 2015

Did you ever ask yourself, when using async/await together with Entity Framework and transactions to load data from your database, what kind of black magic Entity Framework is pulling off behind the scenes? Or do you need to write custom code which participates asynchronously within a transaction? Together we explore the inner workings of transactions. We learn how to leverage transactions with asynchronous code and get to know why there is no way around async void when working with transactions. After this session there will be no more black magic.

About Daniel

My name is Daniel Marbach. I’m from the beautiful chocolate country Switzerland. I’m the CEO of tracelight GmbH in Switzerland and also working as a Solutions Architect for Particular Software. I regularly blog on http://www.planetgeek.ch, I’m a Microsoft MVP for Integration and founder of the .NET Usergroup Zentralschweiz.

Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning 101

• When: Wed May 27 20:45:00 2015

Terms like big data and its close cousin, predictive analytics, get thrown around liberally these days. But what are they actually about? And why should we care? In this presentation we will go over the very basics of predictive analytics and machine learning, various approaches to them, challenges in their implementation, and some of the many applications.

C# is the Future

• When: Wed May 27 20:00:00 2015

The next version of C# is upon us so if you thought that this language was long forgotten by its creators come along on this journey where I’ll prove you otherwise! We will look at how C# has evolved over the years and what we might expect in the future. Are you ready to embrace the programming language of the future?

About Filip

Author of C# Smorgasbord. Speaker. Pluralsight author. Microsoft .NET MVP. Xamarin MVP. Works for @Invoice2Go. Swede living in Sydney!

ReactiveUI - It’s Pretty Neat

• When: Tue May 26 21:30:00 2015

ReactiveUI is an MVVM framework designed to write testable mobile and desktop applications in C#.

But I don’t want to talk about just that. In this talk I will go through what functional reactive programming is, why you should care, the inspiration behind ReactiveUI and how to use Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI in your apps.

Azure Event Hubs

• When: Tue May 26 20:45:00 2015

In this session you will learn about Azure Event Hubs, a tool that developers can use to receive large numbers of events (up to 1,000,000 per second). You’ll learn the core concepts surrounding event hubs, how to send events, how to read events and how to all of this securely.

About Mitch

Mitch Denny is a Microsoft MVP (ALM), ASP Insider and the Chief Technology Officer of Readify. Mitch spends his time working with all kinds of organisations around their technology strategy and is particularly interested in cloud computing, mobility, ALM and DevOps and emerging trends such as the Internet-of-Things.

Yeoman, Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Node – Client side for the new ASP.Net stack

• When: Tue May 26 20:00:00 2015

There’s a new world of web development out there which a bunch of funky sounding tools. If I want to build a new web application today what do I need to know about these tools? What’s the cross-over to what we’ve been doing in ASP.Net for the last 10 years? Let’s take a dive into the world of front-end web tools and see why you not only should know about them but will need to know about them to build web applications in ASP.Net.

About Aaron

By day Aaron works as a Senior Consultant for Readify, but night he is an IE MVP, battling to save the world one line of JavaScript at a time. Having spoken at a number of conferences in Australia and around the world on the web it’s time to take the shenanigans to the virtual conference world and look at the state of front-end web development.

Microservice design patterns for line of business applications

• When: Mon May 25 21:30:00 2015

So you broke up your big, unmaintainable monolithic system into microservices. Good for you. Each piece is now easy to understand and maintain. Except things didn’t get simpler. You’ve got lots of dependencies between your services to implement your business processes. You’re having to modify many services to change your processes and the complexity is exploding. This isn’t any better, if you can’t improve things you’re going back to the old way of doing things.

This talk discusses how you can use just three simple architectural patterns to design and implement microservice systems that can isolate the complexity of changes and support managing the evolution of business logic and processes over time. You will also learn how these design patterns can help deal with the distributed, non-transactional nature of microservice systems. As a bonus it includes other buzzwords like event sourcing and CQRS at no extra charge.

About Colin

Colin has been working with .NET since 2003 and has built and maintained systems for a variety of industries. He tends to focus on the backend in order to maintain a minimum safe distance from pixels (shiny or otherwise). Recently he has been accused of devops. He is currently working on a CQRS Event Sourcing microservices system built on Azure during which he’s written a replacement for the Azure Emulator and considered rewriting all the other Azure tooling as well. He is a mostly recovered overengineering addict and is deathly allergic to PowerShell. Despite its presence in his talk title he doesn’t actually like the word microservices, considering it pretentious. Limit 1 per customer.

Hot Dates

• When: Mon May 25 20:45:00 2015

.NET has System.DateTime, JavaScript has Date - isn’t that all I need?

In simple cases, yes. But as soon as your application needs to deal with people and/or computers in different locations around the world (not to mention daylight saving) it may not be!

This talk will demonstrate some of the approaches you can make to better handle storing, comparing and displaying globally-aware dates and times both on the server/desktop and in the browser.

About David

David Gardiner has been creating software for over 20 years and has a passion for continual learning and improving quality. He helps run the Adelaide .NET User Group and works as a Senior Software Developer at RL Solutions on healthcare software. He blogs at http://david.gardiner.net.au and tweets at @DavidRGardiner.

5 good reasons to move to F#

• When: Mon May 25 20:00:00 2015

In this session Jorge will explain some of the great F# features that are missing in C# and why they are important.

About Jorge

Jorge works as Lead Consultant for Readify and he has extensive experience applying good practices and patterns, introducing new technologies to development teams and refactoring legacy code to make it more maintainable. He also has several years of experience applying agile methodologies, helping teams to estimate, and deliver high-quality software using Domain-Driven Design. He is a regular speaker, organises the F# Sydney user group and frequently runs workshops to introduce F# to C# developers.