Anouncement
Anouncement
Karthik was kind enough to invite me as speaker to present a session on Fluent NHibernate. If you are around the area, I would love to meet you there.
Here is the detail from NDDNUG site.
Topic: Journey to Fluent NHibernate
NHibernate has always been preferred ORM tool for DDD community in .NET land. However one area of NHibernate where people struggled most is its xml base configuration. This is where Fluent NHibernate was born giving Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated, convention-based mappings for NHibernate. Rather than writing XML documents, you write mappings in strongly typed C# code....
Moving on with our series of virtual learning, here I present next one.
Schedule Time: April/1/2010 10:30 PM (Central Daylight Time) [April/2/2010 9:00 AM IST]
Session Name: Deep dive into OOP - Beyond basic concepts
Abstract: In our college days, We have already learned core Object-Oriented Programming concept like Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. However since then, lot has been written and spoken about it. While you feel confident about OOP after mastering those core part, soon you realize those cool folks are talking about Single Responsibility Principle", "Open/Closed Principle", "Dependency Inversion Principle", as well as Inversion of Control containers. This session...
As the month of October proceed, 1 billion people from all around the world are busy preparing for their grand festival; The Diwali. It’s bit of misfortune for some of my friends here in America, that they have no idea about what 1 in every 6 person on the earth, is busy celebrating with. Why not to take this as opportunity to tell them about social as well as spiritual significance behind the festival? There is my 2 cents :)
Diwali, which is also known as Deepavali, is a festival of lights. These light signifies enlightenment,...
Over this weekend, I facilitated workshop on Refactoring. My company was kind enough to host the screencast for me. Earlier I posted link for ppt and demo application download here.
If you rather prefer to watch it directly at screencast site, here is the direct link
http://www.screencast.com/t/gI7XXQMQ95S
Thanks to Jeffrey Palermo, for the big favor and editing and uploading the screencast.
Fascinated about terms like unit testing and TDD? Praying to work for green field project so that you, too, can do unit testing and TDD?
If these questions sounds familiar to you then let me tell you that you are not alone. While hype of automated testing, TDD, BDD is in air, not everyone is fortunate enough to work on green field project with cutting edge tools and techniques. For years, business has invested lot of money in developing and maintain those “Legacy” system, that everyone seems to hate today. Management is not ready to invest in building new system...
Thanks to the setup guidance I received from my buddy and Mentor, Eric Hexter, my blog is up and running here.
My earlier feed at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MahendraMavani has been redirected to point to this new blog. Alternatively you can also subscribe to direct feed at http://www.mahendramavani.com/blog/rss.aspx
Other part of the Website is still in planning phase so I don’t know when it would be ready but I am hoping for sooner than later.
With the site and blog running smoothly, now my personal goal is to beat Jimmy Bogard, very talented buddy of mine. (I am shooting for high, you see:) )...