Teched - Day 1 - Continued 

Recap of day 1

14:00 Keynote

After a short introduction by {a suit guy with a strange french accent} Jason Zander General Manager Visual Studio gave us a demo of VSTS 2010 in short WOW. All 'new' featerures planned for us as developers combined into one tool, we saw a alot of handy developer must haves which are currently only available in tools like NDepend and Reshapener and even some extras.

 

 

16:00 ARC203 Architectures: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

People say those that one learns from experience and you learn from your own mistakes. When I comes to building a piece of software and doing the wrong way, you can ussualy start over. Wtih architecture mistakes cannot easily be undone let alone start over from  scratch, architecture should be well balanced and thoughout. So learning from other peoples mistakes can save you a lot of time and you will gain the expierence without bumbing your head.

Well so much for what I was thinking before I went into the presentation. Now for what I understood from the session and can take me.Well although I liked the speaker and the session was actually very good for a 200 type session, I was let down. Why you may ask? Well the session was filled with anti-patterns that were a feast of recogonizion. Luckily Miha Kralj gave some examples of successfull architecture where simplicity is the BIG word.

17:45 ARC303 When You Have Too Much Data, “Good Enough” is Good Enough

The new trend in building application is doing it Domain Driven in which the datastore is just what the name says it is "just a datastore". In classic applications you will see a lot of business logic concentrated in the datastore itself. I hoped the session would go in to this, but no. Instead Pat Helland was speaking his mind about the traditional forms of database strucure and schemas not being a  necessity in current large scale applications and when a solution is good and bringing in the money Good is Good Enough. Demanding strict schema on data is it really neccesary if we understand each other?

Community lounge & fun stuff

Well lots of partners here, I expected more, but appertally there aren't that many;-)  What more I found out that being a musician is not my cup of tea; Playing guitar hero with Wim, well let's just say he rock I did not:'(

Dinnertime

On sunday I had dinner at great place with some old colleages, so I thought well lets go to dinner with my current colleage, but what we didn't expect was the waiting time of around 1,5 hour. The food though was to die for ;-)