Brian H. Prince

As many of you know I am on the board of CodeMash . We are now working on updating the site for this year's conference.  We just pushed v1 live, and are now working on the attendee registration features. Last year we had a great site. It was ASP.NET, web services built with the service software factory, and SQL Server 2005. It worked great. One of the features for the site was a news channel that was on the homepage, a news page, and an rss feed. In order to manage the news content we also had an admin tool, and some supporting tables and so on. This worked fine. But this year, as I was refactoring, I just didn't want to deal with remote DBs, and upgrading the admin interface. So, one day while I was talking to local WSS bad boy (amongst other things), I came up with the idea of having the news content come from a WSS list that was on our planning portal. Sounded easy to me; wire the news business object to the web services for WSS instead of some EntLib code that I had i...

Last night I delivered my "Applied SOA" talk to developers for the first time. I have given many, many times to technical decision makers (TDMs) before. So it was nice to be in front of a nitty-gritty detail crowd,  instead of 30,000 foot view type people. Not that there's anything wrong with them, of course. I think the session went really well. There were about 40 or so people there. I have posted the slide deck on my skydrive public folder.

I just glanced at my calendar, and noticed I have quite a full schedule coming up. August 21, 2007 - Cincinnati .NET Users Group - I will be speaking on 'Applied Service Oriented Architecture'. I will be discussing the underpinnings of SOA, and how it can be applied to your enterprise.   August 28, 2007 - Findlay .NET Users Group - I will be in Findlay presenting my "Hands on Agile Practices" talk. We will discuss how my company has adopted agile practices. I avoid the theory of agile (since so many talks already do that well), and focus on concrete application. I love giving this talk.   August 31, 2007 - Louisville, KY Day of .NET - Jeremy Sublett came up from KY to speak at the Central Ohio .NET developers group, and he told me they were throwing a Day of .NET event in Louisville. Since I love to speak on almost any topic, anywhere, I kind of invited myself to speak. Jeremy was very gracious in light of my slightly rude behavior, and said he would welcome me...