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Agile Architecture: Linking Requirements and Architecture to Solve the Right Problem
Mario Cardinal explains how to use agile practices to incrementally introduce non-functional requirements into the architecture in order to reduce the complexity of the solution.
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F# and Mono, Best Friends Forever
Richard Minerich shows how to use F# in Mono with MonoDevelop, detailing some of the features that make it attractive to programmers.
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Test First Development v.Next with Pex and Moles
David Starr demoes Pex –a parameterized white box unit test tool- and Moles –an isolation framework-, two .NET tools useful for test-first development.
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Next Generation Mashups
Erik Renaud talks on building mashups with OData and normalized schemas to create solutions for mobiles devices in a distributed Internet and how to deal with existing architectural constraints.
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Case Study: Large-scale Pure OO at the Irish Government
Richard Pawson discusses a case study of a large pure OO project for the Irish government, presenting the challenges met, the reason for choosing pure OO, and lessons learned implementing it.
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Mobile Data Access Patterns - Cross Platform Action with Mono
Travis Smith presents the challenges – inconsistent feature support - and advantages – code reuse - of developing cross platform mobile applications with Mono, focusing on data access patterns.
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Using APIs to Connect People to Your App and Each Other
John Sheehan discusses web hooks and explores 3 cloud services: SendGrid’s Parse API for processing email, Twilio’s API for making phone calls and SMS, and Tok’s OpenTok API for web video conference.
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Event Aggregator: Solving the Problem of Event Coupling
Donald Belcham presents the Event Aggregator pattern and the event problems it solves: tight coupling, refactoring difficulty, object chaining, memory leak, showing how to build one.
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Introduction to Android Development Using .NET and Mono
Greg Shackles introduces Android, Mono and Mono for Android, explaining the fundamental components of programming for Android with Mono accompanied by demos and code samples.
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Factories-in-the-Small: Raytheon Experiences using the Software Factories Methodologies
John Slaby and Jezz Santos explain how Raytheon has created Factories-in-the-Small useful to rapidly build new tooling such as the Pattern Automation Toolkit developed in cooperation with Microsoft.
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Presentation Patterns: MVP – MVC – MVVM
Erik Lebel explains 3 presentation patterns used in Windows applications –MVP, MVC, MVVM-, demoing how the model, view, and control layers interact with each other.
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LINQ, Take Two: Realizing the LINQ to Everything Dream
Bart De Smet presents LINQ’s origins, its current status, and plans for the future which include LINQ to Everything, plus discussions on theorem solving, reactive queries, and query optimization.