PDC Birds-of-a-Feather

We had some great sessions on Tuesday, opening day, many of which were SRO so arrive early today.

Wednesday 11/18

• 11:30 am-12:30 pm Developers on Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters Co-Hosts: David Kelley and Jason Beres
• 1:00-1:45 pm BOF @Lunch ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches Fishbowl Panel
• 2:00-3:00 pm Shoud I Use Silverlight, MVC, or Web Forms for Web User Interface Development? Co-Hosts: Ben Hoelting and Todd Anglin
• 3:15-4:15 pm Is Open Source Old News? Co-Hosts: Miguel de Icaza, Joseph Downey, Sara Ford, Peter Galli, Jackson Harper, Joseph Hill
• 4:30-5:30 pm Exception Management – Handling and Reporting Exceptions Effectively Host: Paul Sheriff

See the complete list of sessions for all the PDC09 BOFs.

PDC is just getting started and we kick off w/ the following BOF sessions today.

Tuesday 11/17

• 11:00 am-12:00 pm How to Build and Enrich Your Technical and Local Communities Co-Hosts: Joseph Guadagno, Chris Woodruff
• 12:30-1:15 pm BOF @Lunch Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? Co-Hosts: Simon Guest, David Pallman, Eugene Shustef, Aaron Skonnard, and Michael Stiefel
• 1:30-2:20 pm Agile — Tales of Triumph, Tribulation, and Teams Co-Hosts: David Starr, Mike Vincent
• 3:00-4:00 pm Tooling on Agile Teams Host: Joel Semeniuk
• 4:30-5:30 pm Behavior-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development: What’s What? Host: Dennis Doomen
• 6:00-7:00 pm Special Event: INETA BOF Community Roundtable
  Join David Chappell, Scott Hanselman, Patrick Hynds, Fritz Onion, Miguel de Icaza, and Sara Ford for an open discussion on anything technology related. Carl Franklin will moderate the discussion and be recording the event as a .NET Rocks show.

See the complete list of sessions for all the PDC09 BOFs.

Announcing another timely and relevant BOF topic, this one on Oslo (renamed SQL Server Modeling after this topic went to press).

DSLs and Modeling Behaviors with Oslo

Oslo provides capabilities for modeling data using “M”, but in addition using the DSL tools available to us with MGrammar should provide a good framework for modeling behaviors and business rules in our applications. Have you tried using Oslo to model behaviors or other aspects beyond modeling data? Or do you hope to do so? In this session we will discuss different approaches.

Host: Kevin D. Wolf

See the latest list of sessions for all the PDC09 BOFs.