John Papa [MVP C#]

.NET Code Samples, Data Access, and Other Musings

August 2007 - Posts

Mentoring Anyone?

Recently I have had an increase in interest in the mentoring services and architectural design services that I offer. I think the reason for this is that software development is changing so rapidly now that many shops that have been coding as fast as they can (some with the bleeding edge technologies) have at times lost sight of building a solid architecture. Solid practices are crucial to the long term success of a software product now perhaps more than ever.

I have seen many applications of late using the coolest and latest that our industry has to offer. Yet many of these apps was built without much thought for performance, extensibility, scalability, nor maintainability. Perhaps this is one reason why there has been an increase in the mentoring demand. Perhaps its all just chance.

Posted Aug 31 2007, 10:08 PM by John Papa with 2 comment(s)

4 Sessions in Vegas @ DevConnections

I've been so busy of late I can't believe the summer is almost over! I recently completed relocating my family to South Florida, getting ready for the new school year, writing a ton of articles and sessions for conferences, and a bunch of other .NET jobs. I need to slow down :)

Anyway, this year at DevConnections in November in Las Vegas I will be presenting 4 topics. 2 of them will be on the Entity Framework and how it has evolved. It has really changed for the better over the past year and a half! The latest betas were just released a few days ago for EF, of which I will be working har dto make sure I get all of my sessions up to date on the latest bits.

The other 2 sessions I willbe presenting are on mobile development. Of course since I am a data guy i could not resist making one of the sessions all about design considerations for data centric mobile applications :)

The Las Vegas DevConnections has added a data centric mini track. There will be some great speakers in this track ... oh and me too. The Julia Lerman, DonKiely, Kathleen Dollard, Bill Vaughn, Dino Esposito, Dave Sussman, Alex Homer, and more!