I left a comment on JP Boodhoo’s blog recently, and asked if there was any chance of him running a Nothin’ But .NET course in Sydney, Australia. I got an email response from him a short time later:
“As far as the course in Australia!! I will be there next year [2009] to give a course in Sydney!!”
I’ve been really keen to attend this course for ages now, but the commute to Canada each day was pushing it a bit :). In case you don’t know what the course is all about, here’s a review (and links to other reviews) from Kyle Bailey’s old blog. To quote a bit of the blurb from a recently scheduled course:
Nothin’ But .Net is a five day boot camp that will focus on pragmatically applying .Net within the context of developing a working N-Tiered application. Registrants will learn about advanced features of .Net (2.0/3.0/3.5) as they are applied to the task of building a complete application from the UI layer all the way down to the mapping layer.
Core Concepts Overview
- Expanding the capabilities of developing with VS.Net - Enter ReSharper (a productivity add-in for Visual Studio .Net)
- There’s more to life than generated code
- Automation for the developer
- Generics ( they’re not just for collections )
- Back to basics - Rules Of Good Object Oriented Design
- Dependency Injection
- Object Relational Mapping in .Net
- Applying the dependency inversion principle
- Domain Driven Design
- Passive View/Supervising Controller,MVC
- Creating layered architectures
- Driving out functionality and design through testing
- Taking Control Of Databinding
- Behavior (Test) Driven Development
- Core design patterns applied
- Pragmatic Productivity Tools For Developers
It sounds awesome. Hope to see a few like-minded Aussie developers there! In the mean time, if anyone knows of any current course in Sydney that covers any of this stuff please leave a comment or email me, as I’d try and attend that too during the looonnnggg wait ‘til JP visits in 2009.
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