Nancy is the web framework that lets you drop the ceremony, cut through the boilerplate and write clear, concise code that expresses your application’s purpose. Simple.Data is the data access technology that gives you ORM-style syntax with no code-generati...

Agile has been around for 10 years and everyman and his dog are apparently using agile in their day to day work. Question is: are they actually agile? In this session we will answer that question by firstly going to look at what we are trying to achiev...

This hands-on tutorial will introduce you to building RESTful web services using the new Microsoft Web APIs (http://wcf.codeplex.com). Over the course of several exercises, we'll develop a simple Fighting Fantasy service for machines to play when they're n...

Asynchrony is becoming increasingly important in an interconnected world. There are many opportunities for writing more efficient code - but until now it's frankly been a pain to do so. Parallel and asynchronous code is difficult to write, understand and d...

As software developers, we face a risky, time-consuming and painful process in delivering software. The solution the delivery of software continuously through build, test and deployment automation. This session will talk about how we can move from CI to co...

WebSharper is a popular and robust web application development framework for F# that provides powerful functional constructs that massively cut down the development time of ordinary client-server and stunningly rich, client-based, mobile and HTML5 web appl...

Have you ever built a software system and your users have complained that it’s too slow? I have; debugging live performance and scalability issues with business sponsors watching over your shoulder isn’t fun! Load testing is an often forgotten and seemingl...

Javascript samurai, Damjan Vujnovic, gives a session for the Progressive .NET Tutorials on using test-driven development to design and implement a simple web application, including how to steer it towards component based micro-architecture.

We all know the value of dependency management, DRY, abstractions and loose coupling when we're building our back-end architectures, but when it comes to writing the UI for our web applications, we often fall back into the habit of copy'n'paste code reuse,...

User stories in the product backlog are just reminders for a discussion. This discussion that clarifies the necessary details takes place shortly before implementation only. But how are these details defined and how can you review after implementation whet...

Have you noticed that whilst everyone is talking about package management, fewer people seem to talking about the patterns and practices of package management, what you need to do to package up your application, and how well the tools out there support tha...