Oliver Sturm's weblog http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/ en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 sturmnethttp://feedburner.google.com My Pluralsight F# Introduction class is available http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/EugvFHXre4A/my-pluralsight-f-introduction-class Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:27:00 +0000 Oliver Sturm General .NET 563@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>I almost (well, actually - for a while) forgot to blog about this, but was prompted by the Pluralsight newsletter that came out yesterday. So here goes: my Pluralsight class <strong><em>Introduction to F#</em></strong> is available now! Please follow the link below to check it out, and of course feel free to get back to me with any feedback you have!</p> <p><a href="http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=fsintro">Introduction to F# @ Pluralsight</a></p> I almost (well, actually - for a while) forgot to blog about this, but was prompted by the Pluralsight newsletter that came out yesterday. So here goes: my Pluralsight class Introduction to F# is available now! Please follow the link below to check it out, and of course feel free to get back to me with any feedback you have!

Introduction to F# @ Pluralsight

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/03/21/my-pluralsight-f-introduction-class#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=563 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/03/21/my-pluralsight-f-introduction-class Class Expert DevExpress XAF, Europe 2012 http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/XhORLiDO9ik/class-expert-devexpress-xaf-europe Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:03:00 +0000 Oliver Sturm General .NET Developer Express 562@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>Great news: In June 2012 I&#8217;ll do a five-day class on <a href="http://devexpress.com/Products/NET/Application_Framework/">DevExpress eXpressApp Framework</a> in Bad Ems, Germany. This class will be held in English language.</p> <p>For all the details about the class, please follow this link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.oliversturm.com/expert-xaf.html">Expert DevExpress XAF Bad Ems, Germany, June 2012</a></p> Great news: In June 2012 I’ll do a five-day class on DevExpress eXpressApp Framework in Bad Ems, Germany. This class will be held in English language.

For all the details about the class, please follow this link:

Expert DevExpress XAF Bad Ems, Germany, June 2012

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/03/14/class-expert-devexpress-xaf-europe#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=562 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/03/14/class-expert-devexpress-xaf-europe Free DevExpress Day in Bad Ems with Seth Juarez http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/I0wcLVkkI74/free-devexpress-day-in-bad Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:46:00 +0000 Oliver Sturm General Programming .NET Developer Express 561@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>A quick update on my recent announcement of the free DevExpress Day in Bad Ems, Germany - Seth Juarez, Technical Evangelist with DevExpress, will join us on the day. He&#8217;ll do some presentations around DXv2 and Reporting, and of course he&#8217;ll be available to answer all the questions you bring.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the link again, if you missed it the first time: <a href="http://www.oliversturm.com/dxday.html">http://www.oliversturm.com/dxday.html</a></p> <p>I hope I&#8217;ll see you there!</p> A quick update on my recent announcement of the free DevExpress Day in Bad Ems, Germany - Seth Juarez, Technical Evangelist with DevExpress, will join us on the day. He’ll do some presentations around DXv2 and Reporting, and of course he’ll be available to answer all the questions you bring.

Here’s the link again, if you missed it the first time: http://www.oliversturm.com/dxday.html

I hope I’ll see you there!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/02/16/free-devexpress-day-in-bad#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=561 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/02/16/free-devexpress-day-in-bad Free DevExpress Day - 25th February 2012 - Bad Ems, Germany http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/gGXXnip5_aA/free-devexpress-day-25th-february Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:58:00 +0000 Oliver Sturm General .NET Developer Express 560@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>This I have just announced: <strong><em>Free DevExpress Day &#8211; 25th February 2012 &#8211; Bad Ems, Germany</em></strong></p> <p>As you may have guessed, it&#8217;s free! There will be some technical presentations, and there will be enough time to discuss your own questions, issues and consulting topics. Just turn up and take advantage!</p> <p><strong>Sponsored by <a href="http://www.devexpress.com">DevExpress</a> themselves, I can also announce there will be a raffle of a DevExpress Universal Subscription license, a value of $2199.99!</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.oliversturm.com/dxday.html">You can find lots more details by following this link, including an agenda with the main points of the day.</a></p> This I have just announced: Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany

As you may have guessed, it’s free! There will be some technical presentations, and there will be enough time to discuss your own questions, issues and consulting topics. Just turn up and take advantage!

Sponsored by DevExpress themselves, I can also announce there will be a raffle of a DevExpress Universal Subscription license, a value of $2199.99!

You can find lots more details by following this link, including an agenda with the main points of the day.

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/02/08/free-devexpress-day-25th-february#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=560 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/02/08/free-devexpress-day-25th-february New DevExpress classes announced for Europe 2012 http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/At6KzR-3vlE/new-devexpress-classes-announced-for Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:35:00 +0000 Oliver Sturm General .NET Developer Express 559@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>I have announced two new public classes for DevExpress technology for 2012 - well, at least for the first few months. They both take place at the well-known venue in Bad Ems, Germany, but they&#8217;re both targeted at an international audience and it&#8217;s very likely they&#8217;ll be held in English! (That&#8217;s unless only German attendees should be there.)</p> <p>Here you go (click the links for all the details):</p> <p><a href="http://www.oliversturm.com/expert-dxaspnet.html">Expert DXperience ASP.NET</a> - March 1-2 2012 (2 days) - <strong>Early bird pricing available until February 1st 2012!</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.oliversturm.com/expert-dxwinforms.html">Expert DXperience WinForms</a> - April 25-27 2012 (3 days) - <strong>Early bird pricing available until March 14 2012!</strong></p> <p>Happy New Year!</p> I have announced two new public classes for DevExpress technology for 2012 - well, at least for the first few months. They both take place at the well-known venue in Bad Ems, Germany, but they’re both targeted at an international audience and it’s very likely they’ll be held in English! (That’s unless only German attendees should be there.)

Here you go (click the links for all the details):

Expert DXperience ASP.NET - March 1-2 2012 (2 days) - Early bird pricing available until February 1st 2012!

Expert DXperience WinForms - April 25-27 2012 (3 days) - Early bird pricing available until March 14 2012!

Happy New Year!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/01/09/new-devexpress-classes-announced-for#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=559 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2012/01/09/new-devexpress-classes-announced-for Slides and sample doc from Software Architect 2011 http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/bFH0rRxlhd0/slides-and-sample-doc-from-software-arch-2011 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:07:11 +0000 Oliver Sturm .NET 558@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>I had a great time at my Pragmatic .NET Architecture workshop yesterday at <a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/">Software Architect 2011</a> in London - thank you very much to everybody who was there!</p> <p>As promised, I&#8217;m putting up the slides and the concept document, as far as we developed it during the day. Here you go:</p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/PragmaticNETArchitecture-SA2011.zip">PragmaticNETArchitecture-SA2011.zip</a></p> <p>Have fun!</p> I had a great time at my Pragmatic .NET Architecture workshop yesterday at Software Architect 2011 in London - thank you very much to everybody who was there!

As promised, I’m putting up the slides and the concept document, as far as we developed it during the day. Here you go:

PragmaticNETArchitecture-SA2011.zip

Have fun!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/10/19/slides-and-sample-doc-from-software-arch-2011#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=558 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/10/19/slides-and-sample-doc-from-software-arch-2011 Slides and samples from Basta 2011 - finally! http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/94uq4qQNIYc/slides-and-samples-from-basta-2011-final Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:33:54 +0000 Oliver Sturm .NET 557@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>This is weird&#8230; I had entirely forgotten about putting up the slides and samples from last week&#8217;s <a href="http://www.basta.net">BASTA! 2011</a> conference - because I was completely convinced I had already done so! I had some trouble getting proper internet connectivity in the days following the event, and I abandoned several attempts to upload the files to my server, and then somehow my mind auto-applied a great big DONE to the task. I apologize for the delay.</p> <p>BASTA! was a great event again &#8211; larger than ever, apparently &#8211; and here&#8217;s a <strong><em>thank you</em></strong> to those of you who made it to one of my talks. Like I said during my presentations, if you have any thoughts you&#8217;d like to discuss, or questions of any kind, <a href="http://www.sturmnet.orgmailto:oliver@oliversturm.com">send me email!</a></p> <p>Here are the files with slides and samples now:</p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/Basta2011-PragmaticArchitecture.zip">Pragmatic Architecture Workshop</a> (these include the concept document as created during the workshop, as well as the slide changes made there)</p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/Basta2011-Async.zip">Async in C# 5.0</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/Basta2011-ExpressionTrees.zip">Expression Trees</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/Basta2011-ExceptionPatterns.zip">Exception Patterns</a></p> <p>Have fun!</p> This is weird… I had entirely forgotten about putting up the slides and samples from last week’s BASTA! 2011 conference - because I was completely convinced I had already done so! I had some trouble getting proper internet connectivity in the days following the event, and I abandoned several attempts to upload the files to my server, and then somehow my mind auto-applied a great big DONE to the task. I apologize for the delay.

BASTA! was a great event again – larger than ever, apparently – and here’s a thank you to those of you who made it to one of my talks. Like I said during my presentations, if you have any thoughts you’d like to discuss, or questions of any kind, send me email!

Here are the files with slides and samples now:

Pragmatic Architecture Workshop (these include the concept document as created during the workshop, as well as the slide changes made there)

Async in C# 5.0

Expression Trees

Exception Patterns

Have fun!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/10/06/slides-and-samples-from-basta-2011-final#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=557 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/10/06/slides-and-samples-from-basta-2011-final Pluralsight C# 4.0 Course - Webcast Coming Up! http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/DKMw430Kxew/pluralsight-c-4-0-course-webcast-coming- Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:02:56 +0000 Oliver Sturm .NET 556@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>I have recently completed my first course for the Pluralsight on-demand library: <a href="http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/courses/tableofcontents?courseName=cs40-whats-new">C# 4.0 New Features</a>. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the Pluralsight library, I recommend you check it out - it&#8217;s a brilliant resource!</p> <p>On September 1st, I&#8217;ll also deliver a webcast for Pluralsight, called <strong>Being dynamic with C# 4.0</strong> &#8211; currently on <a href="http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/webcasts/index">the list here</a>. See you there!</p> I have recently completed my first course for the Pluralsight on-demand library: C# 4.0 New Features. If you’re not familiar with the Pluralsight library, I recommend you check it out - it’s a brilliant resource!

On September 1st, I’ll also deliver a webcast for Pluralsight, called Being dynamic with C# 4.0 – currently on the list here. See you there!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/pluralsight-c-4-0-course-webcast-coming-#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=556 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/pluralsight-c-4-0-course-webcast-coming- "Pragmatic Architecture" at .NET User Group Braunschweig http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/qqfYR_Bq-_g/pragmatic-architecture-at-net-user-group Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:58:19 +0000 Oliver Sturm .NET 555@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>On September 29, I&#8217;ll be in <strong>Braunschweig, Germany</strong>, to deliver a talk called <strong>Pragmatic Architecture</strong>. This is a short version of my popular workshop, which I&#8217;m currently doing at various conferences in Europe. Unfortunately for my English language readers, the talk will be in German - but you may be able to see the whole thing in English at this year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/sessions/preworkshops.asp">Software Architect conference in London</a>!</p> <p>Here are the <a href="http://www.dotnet-braunschweig.de/termindetails.aspx?id=70">infos about the event in Braunschweig</a>. I hope to see you there! Thanks to the user group organizers and to INETA Europe for making this happen!</p> On September 29, I’ll be in Braunschweig, Germany, to deliver a talk called Pragmatic Architecture. This is a short version of my popular workshop, which I’m currently doing at various conferences in Europe. Unfortunately for my English language readers, the talk will be in German - but you may be able to see the whole thing in English at this year’s Software Architect conference in London!

Here are the infos about the event in Braunschweig. I hope to see you there! Thanks to the user group organizers and to INETA Europe for making this happen!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/pragmatic-architecture-at-net-user-group#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=555 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/pragmatic-architecture-at-net-user-group Electric Editing compatibility update for CodeRush/DXCore 11.1.7 http://feeds.sturmnet.org/~r/sturmnet/~3/Tbz66Nglvi8/electric-editing-compatibility-update-fo-7 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:40:06 +0000 Oliver Sturm .NET 554@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ <p>Here&#8217;s a new version of my Electric Editing plugin. Did you know the first version came out in April 2005? Unbelievable how time flies!</p> <p>This version is built against DXCore 11.1.7. Here&#8217;s the download:</p> <p><a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/download/CR_ElectricEditing-1.2.6.1.zip">CR_ElectricEditing-1.2.6.1.zip</a> (22654 bytes)</p> <p>Of course, as ever, if you don&#8217;t know what Electric Editing is, please check out <a href="http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/04/24/cr-electric-editing">this page</a>, the various linked blog posts and the comments for the background info!</p> <p>Have fun!</p> Here’s a new version of my Electric Editing plugin. Did you know the first version came out in April 2005? Unbelievable how time flies!

This version is built against DXCore 11.1.7. Here’s the download:

CR_ElectricEditing-1.2.6.1.zip (22654 bytes)

Of course, as ever, if you don’t know what Electric Editing is, please check out this page, the various linked blog posts and the comments for the background info!

Have fun!

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/electric-editing-compatibility-update-fo-7#comments http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=554 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2011/08/23/electric-editing-compatibility-update-fo-7