Julie Lerman's book, Programming Entity Framework, is now available through Amazon or O'Reilly. This book is the result of a lot of hard work by Julie and as one of her technical reviewers, I can say with certainty that it's worth buying if you are interested in knowing more about Entity Framework.
Good job and congratulations, Julie.. how does it feel to get your life back?
February 12th / Bobby Johnson on Dependency Injection: A Beginners Guild to Why Ninjas Are Awesome
This presentation will describe the core concepts of Dependency Injection (DI), first described by Martin Fowler in his article Inversion of Control (IoC) Containers and the Dependency Injection Pattern.
The presentation will highlight the benefits of Dependency Injection including:
* · Creating classes that are easier to unit test in isolation
* · Promotes loose coupling between classes and subsystems
* · Adds potential flexibility to a codebase for future changes
* · Can enable better code reuse
Bobby will also be sharing simple and fun examples on how to use DI along with a real world example of its use in a web-based application.
BIO
Bobby Johnson is a Senior Software Developer at Alliance Enterprises, a performance management software company based in Lacey, Washington. As an avid enthusiast of Agile methods and a self proclaimed code monkey, Bobby is currently focused on overseeing the implementation of Agile techniques like DDD, TDD, CI into Alliance’s software and quality engineering processes. Prior to joining Alliance, Bobby worked at the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries as a Development Specialist.
To find out more about Bobby and his technical misadventures visit his blog at www.iamnotmyself.com.
Pizza will be provided by Alliance Enterprises, bring your own beverage. Thanks, Alliance!