Important Tips for Improving Your Architecture and Code Reviews with Marcel De Vries and Terje Sandstrom

11 May
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The Dutch Devs

Adam Cogan sits down with Marcel de Vries and Terje Sandstrom to breakdown the Software Development process. They discuss:

  • Evaluating the process
  • Getting the latest and compiling
  • Making instructions at the beginning of a project
  • Using the best code analysis tool
  • Looking at the architecture
  • Reviewing the documentation
  • Using the best code metrics tools
  • The common design patterns

DDD Brisbane – Damian Brady: ‘Zero to Everywhere with ASP.NET MVC’

27 Apr
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Our very own Damian Brady took the stage at the DDD event in Brisbane to talk ASP.NET MVC

Mobile devices like tablets and phones are quickly becoming the primary way people access the web. So why are so many sites still not designed for them?

With ASP.NET MVC, it’s easier than ever to literally put your website in the palm of everyone’s hand. MVC 3 has many features that allow you to target mobile devices with different layout and even content. The recent developer preview of MVC 4 makes things even easier.

In this demo-heavy session, we show how quick and easy it is to create new MVC sites using the great Visual Studio tooling and Entity Framework 4. We’ll look at some different techniques and third-party libraries that make targeting mobile devices easy, and we’ll touch on ASP.NET MVC 4 and what it brings to the table.

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Walking the Turtle: An In-Depth Look at Pyxis and ‘Urban Turtle’

26 Apr
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Adam Cogan interviews Dominic Danis from Pyxis, a software consulting firm based in Montreal.

Pyxis is a fascinating company. Based on a mantra of ‘it’s all about the people’, we see in this video how Dominic and his colleagues strive to always provide the best workplace conditions for their employees.

It’s easy to see how the great working conditions and relaxed atmosphere have translated into great real world products for Pyxis; Urban Turtle, an Agile plug-in for TFS 2010, is a prime example of this.

From the video, you’ll see:

  • An in-depth look at Urban Turtle for TFS 2010, plus some discussion on possible new features (such as Kinect integration)
  • How the product was almost called ‘Greenhopper’ for TFS

We also have a short video where Adam and Dom walk through the cleverly designed Pyxis office.

Videos past the break.

DDD Brisbane – Mehdi Khalili: ‘Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler’

23 Apr
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In our first presentation from DDD Brisbane, Mehdi Khalili demonstrates advanced web debugging techniques using Fiddler.

Many developers have seen and used Fiddler; but the usage is usually limited to capturing HTTP traffic.

This session includes the fundamentals of Fiddler, how it works, plus some of the more advanced features including setting breakpoints and changing the request and response on the fly, auto responding to requests, using filters and so on.

Some of the topics discussed in this session will be familiar to most developers; but there is going to be a few nice tricks to take away for most.

The topics of discussion include:

  • What Fiddler is and how it works
  • What the alternative tools to Fiddler are
  • The features of Fiddler
  • FiddlerCore and FiddlerCap

Process and Continuous Delivery with Steve Godbold

08 Mar
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Steve Godbold discusses:

  • Looking beyond practices
  • How process impacts continuous delivery
  • How you can improve your process
  • How to get more out of continuous delivery
  • Why you should care about process as a developer
  • Waterfall models
  • Agile models

Protecting your Web Apps from the Tyranny of Evil with OWASP – Troy Hunt

08 Mar
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Troy Hunt discusses:

  • Why we need to talk more about web app security
  • Who OWASP is and what are they doing for us
  • The OWASP Top 10 web app security risks
  • What each risk is
  • Exploiting the risk
  • Protecting against the risk

Cutting Edge User Interfaces with Adam Cogan

26 Mar
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Adam Cogan discusses:

  • General Usability Practices
  • Windows Apps
  • Popups and Message Boxes
  • Controls and Forms (Windows and Web)
  • Reports
  • Web UI
  • Mobile Interfaces
  • Controversy

Scrum at Microsoft: See the TFS Agile Team do a Scrum (aka Stand Up)

06 Mar
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Scrum is a hot topic of discussion for many IT professionals.

The Scrum Guide defines the Daily Scrum (aka Daily Stand-Up) but does not prescribe a way to implement it. Every team is different and not everyone implements the Daily Scrum in the same way.

In this video Adam Cogan shows you how a team at Microsoft, who are working on the next set of Agile project management tools, perform their Daily Scrum.

In the video, you will see:

  • Tips from Adam Cogan on how to perform a Daily Stand Up
  • How the members of the Scrum Team use technology in the Stand Up
  • Why the teams do their Daily Stand Ups in a hallway
  • The role of the Project Manager and the Product Owner
  • Adam discusses the Product Managers’ decision to move an item of the Sprint and swap it with another item

RedGate SQL Compare Demo with Adam Stephensen

17 Jan
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Adam Stephensen discusses:

The ins and outs of RedGate SQL Compare and how to use it effectively. If you need a hand generating your change scripts, watch this video to see how Redgate SQL Compare allows you to analyse two databases, determine the differences and then easily script the changes.

How To Improve Your SQL Server Database with Mehmet Ozdemir

18 Dec
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A chance to watch SSW’s latest Webinar broadcasted live on the 6th of October

Are your users starting a report and going for a coffee or a smoke while they wait? Are your users constantly complaining about timeouts when using your application?

If you find yourself with a sluggish database, stop pulling your hair out! In this webinar SSW will show you the top 8 methods we use to reduce the time it takes to run queries from minutes or hours to seconds.

This webinar will provide the viewer with:

1. Top 8 ways to improve the performance of your SQL Server Database
2. How to prevent performance issues from occurring
3. How to resolve these issues after it goes into production
4. How write code that ensures your SQL server remains healthy
5. Steps an administrator can take to return your SQL server to optimal health