Devdays 2009

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It has been a few days since we held developer days conference here in the Netherlands. I Must say I was quite pleased to see there where so many attendees especially with the current economic situation.

Devdays is always this special week in the year for me since I tend to always give sessions on the latest greatest technologies and they also happen to ship a CTP or beta drop just a week for such a conference. This year again I had to work day and night to get all demo’s working on the latest available bits since that gives the best impression for the attendees in terms of the current available feature set. This year I presented a Pre Conference session on Visual Studio Team System 2010, together with Adam Barr, who is a Test lead at Microsoft on Team foundation sever. Adam Arrived on Monday and we spend two days getting all the demo’s working correctly. Also Edd Glas from the Team Test Team got over and presented part of the preconference. We decided it was great for the preconference audience to have two people straight from the trenches telling about what they are building. The total content for the Pre Conference covers over 6 hours of content and demos on what is all in the product, and the feedback received during the session was very positive.

On Devdays day 1, I got my personal 2 Minutes of fame during the Keynote Session. (aprox. 1800 people attending). Begin of January I have been selected to become a Microsoft regional Director for the Netherlands together with Anko Duizer. During the Keynote I was asked to talk in maximum 2 Minutes on my vision on ALM and what people should expect to happen in that space the coming year. I Got an picture of a Colleague of mine that has me on stage during the Keynote.

I must say it really looks different from the other side when you are on stage 🙂

The second Day I gave my Last session that is called “Modeling that works with code” where I show what you can do with all the great new Modeling and DSL stuff shipping with Team Architect Edition 2010.

This is where I showed the value of modeling up front and Bottom up by generating UML Sequence Diagrams and DGML Diagrams based on the code you have. One of the demo’s I gave was something I was able to craft up with the Help of Edward and Clemens. This is a Demo where you can create new DGML Models using the available .NET API’s. This is very powerful if you e.g. use this in a Daily build and generate diagrams that show stuff like: Classes with a Code Coverage below a certain quality bar, Hot Maps in terms of code Churn mapped to all projects in your product, Lines of code expressed in the size of DGML Nodes, etc. It is amazing what the possibilities are. Clemens and Edward are working e.g. on Architectural Inspections based on the archetypes described in the Patterns And Practices application architecture guide.

If you are interested in the slides from this session, you can download them here.

In a Next Post I will show you how easily you can create a new Diagram based on the available API, and some fixes on visual Studio 2010 I needed to make for all the demo’s to work.

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