I hold this morning at the University of Applied Sciences in Bern during a presentation course a short presentation. The topic was fluent interfaces. I created the presentation not specially for this event, but I had to shorten it to 3 minutes. It was a good training and I received also feedback. Presentation Resources Martin Fowler Wikipedia
I currently started on codeplex.com an open source project. It was inspired by my last project. In this project I was a lead developer and software architect and the domain was about a social assurance. I was responsible about several developers and also for a product of the assurance-suite. This product was about retirements benefits in case the insurant died, retired or become invalid. The project was an success (finished in time, all requested features were implemented) and it is…
During a whole day several speakers spoke about NHibernate and related topics. This conference was in Bologna and was very well prepared and organized. You could watch the slides and the videos of the sessions here. I joined the following sessions: Keynote Simone Chiaretta opened the conference and showed during his keynote how the day is organized. But he couldn’t resist to make a little joke about us Swiss folk which isn’t part of the European union, so basically we…
During the last big project, duration more than a year, we used scrum. But it was a tailored scrum process. The reasons for the tailoring were: No scrum/agile experience in the company Small team (4 developers) Knowledge of tailoring RUP or Hermes First project with agile methods Normally I was the Scrum Master and mostly also the Product owner. The role of the Product owner should be fulfilled by the customer, but in our project, there were several customers with…
I hold in August two presentations at the .Net User Group Bern together with René Leupold. In both presentations the topic was object relational mapping in the .Net world. So we showed Microsoft Entity Framework 4.0 and NHibernate. My part was NHibernate and Rene showed EF. In the first presentation which was on 16th August 2010, we presented the following stuff: Introduction into ORM Theory (ORM impedance mismatch, persistence ignorance and ORM isn’t a silver bullet) Approaches how to map…