Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 1
1. Keynot Jeff Teper - This guy did an overview of sharepoint and the future of the product.
2. Functional programming - Erik Meijer : I've been looking forward to this talk for a while. Erik M. is one of the architects that works with Anders H.
Erik gave some brilliant insight into the evolution of programming languages and pointed us to a Language called Haskell which is a pure functional language and would be an ideal introduction into this sphere.
A book we were advised to read : Graham Hutton - Programming in Haskell
3. Application Architecture - JD Meier : This was a chat about the new application architecture book comming out by Microsoft. This book look very relevant to all developers.
http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch
4. Enterprise Library 4.1 - This was a talk on the performance improvements as well as how the Enterprise library has been made more extensible.
5. MVC & Dynamic Data : A chat and demo of the ASP.NET MVC framework and HTML Helpers.There seems to be a new way of depicting custom controls in ASP.NET.
6. MEF Framework - Glen Block: This is an extensibility framework which is extremely simple to implement using attributes. Applications can be extended at runtime just by dropping an extension library into a defined folder.
7. Agile Security - Bryan Sullivan: A view on how to ensure your applications are secure and the tools which Microsoft use to verify thier applications are secure.