Gojko Adzic

If you are in London on Thursday and are not yet registered for the opensource .net exchange, here’s what you’ll miss:

• Dylan Beattie: JQuery and ASP.NET MVC
• David Ross: Aspect oriented programming with PostSharp
• Sebastien Lambla: Fluent NHibernate
• David de Florinier: ActiveMQ and NMS
• Mike Hadlow: Implementing the repository pattern
• Russ Miles: Spring .NET best practices

We start at 6:30 PM in the Crypt on Clarkenwell (near the Farringdon tube station). We have about 200 people registered so far, but as we have a bigger venue this time there are still open places. The mini-conference is free, but you do have to register upfront. For more details and to register, see:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange

Here’s the video from the talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor that Mike Hadlow and I did last month at Skills Matter.

in the first part of the talk, Mike introduces Dependency Injection and explains how to apply that pattern in practice with Castle Windsor. Then he talks about Castle component lifestyles and implementing common architectural and design patterns using Castle Windsor component model. In the second part of the talk, I present strategies how to manage component configuration effectively for production. After that, I explain how to use Castle facilities to extend the framework, integrate third-party services and manage components easier.

download the slides and the source code from the talk.

Mike Hadlow and I will present the principles of dependency injection, show how to implement them with Castle Windsor and then talk about some more advanced stuff such as Windsor facilities and
implementing custom functionality with them.

This session is aimed at .NET developers at all levels, it is free but upfront registration is required for capacity planning. We have only about 15 seats left in the room so if you were planning to attend, now is the time to sign up.

Here is the video from the Testing Web Applications with Selenium and Selenium Remote Control talk that Milan Bogdanovic, Ivan Sanchez and I organised last week at Skills Matter. The first part of the talk introduces Selenium and some related tools that allow us to use Selenium easier. In the second part, Milan demonstrates Selenium IDE and talks about Selenese language. In the third part, Ivan talks about Remote Control, how to make tests easier to manage and introduced the Page Object pattern. Download links and slides from the talk.

We have worked out the schedule for opensource .NET talks at Skills Matter in London for the next few months. Here are the dates to note in your calendar – more detail on sessions will follow:

• 25th September: Script #, .NET response to Google Web Toolkit.
  Registration is now open
• 23rd October: Dependency injection with Castle Windsor
• 27th November: Asynchronous enterprise .NET applications with NServiceBus
• 17th December: Test driven development in .NET

We will probably do another Alt.NET evening in January like the one this July. This time we’ll have more time and hopefully a bigger venue. At the moment, we have a slot on 13th Jan available for this. If you attended the July talks, please let me know what you thought of the way that we organised it, what you liked, what you disliked, and what we could do to make it better next time.