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Aug 25

Written by: jbonnie
Saturday, August 25, 2007 1:42:06 PM 

The week long Nothing But Dot Net course at Wenatchee Washington is now over. The impact of this week will stay with me for a while.

The week long Nothing But Dot Net course at Wenatchee Washington is now over. The impact of this week will stay with me for a while.

First, this course is seriously intense. JP is not kidding, when he says the days may by longer than your typical training class. We typically went 14+ hours, with the friday class going to close to 1am, for a more than 16 hour coding marathon.

JP was not kidding when he said it will take months to digest all of the material that he presented. I knew that I was weak on OO programming and TDD, but the class made it so clear how this impacts your ability to use the .net framework and design clean testable solutions.

It truly was amazing to see JP build out clean interfaces to layers of the system, and buld up our own logging and IOC functionality, and then to be able to switch from our own implementation, to another one such as Log4net.

JP gives practical advise for learning the techniques that he shows and building the solid core of knowledge that will help you be able to keep on this exciting technology ride.

Just Hold on tight!

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Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jim Bonnie and I have been writing software for over 20 years. After building financial data systems for Reuters for nearly 18 years I have started doing contract work and am excited about technology and currently focus on Microsoft solutions. DotNetNuke has helped provide a good introduction to ASP.NET web application development, and I am now starting to branch out into other areas. Data Access techniques and SubSonic is something that I am looking into now. This has helped me get an invitation to speak at Las Vegas at DNN Open Force 07. it was a great time. And I am looking forward to OpenForce08, where I wil be presenting on TDD for DNN.

 

Reading the codebetter blogs and attending a nothing but .net training class with JP Boodhoo helped spark my interest in ALT.NET. I attended the first conference in Austin Texas, and it was amazing to see Scott Guthrie introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.

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