As a member of the Telerik Insiders Team, Telerik can help facilitate my delivery of talks at your user group or software development event. If your request is approved, Telerik can provide me financial assistance for my related travel and lodging costs.
View my list of talk abstracts here and click the image above to send a request for me to Telerik!
At the beginning of this month I had the pleasure of traveling down to Columbia, Maryland to address the August 2011 meeting of the Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals (CMAP). I delivered my talk Introduction to Agile Principles, Practices, and Processes which involves no code whatsoever but focuses in on understanding the differences between [...]
About two weeks ago, on November 13th, 2010 we finished the (re)delivery of the Agile Firestarter content here in NYC to an assembled group of about 80 interested software developers. This is now the fourth delivery of this content, including two prior Agile Firestarters in NYC and one in nearby New Jersey. The team involved [...]
This post is a bit overdue, slightly out of chronological order, and will probably have me rambling a bit too much but I’ve been busy lately – so sue me
Earlier this year I was was asked if I wanted to participate in delivering the Entity Framework Firestarter event here in NYC. I [...]
I’m very excited to be able to announce that as of this past Monday July 12th, 2010 I have officially begun work in my new position as a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. This opportunity represents the next (interesting) step in my software development career and I’m looking very forward to the kinds of things [...]
Who is Wendy Friedlander?
This is a post that’s a bit off-topic but I hope that you will find value in it all the same. Let me take a moment to introduce you to Wendy Friedlander.
Wendy Friedlander is a software developer, loving mom and wife who turned into a cancer-survivor-in-training on 8/14/2009.
It was the weekend of [...]
In case you care (and if you’re reading this I’ll have to assume that either you’re terrible at using search engines to find relevant content on the Internet or else you’re here on purpose and so you probably DO care), my interview on the Community Megaphone Podcast is now published and can be downloaded from [...]
Every day I have a bus commute in and out of Manhattan from Staten Island that takes anywhere from between 45 minutes on the low side to about an hour and a half on the high side (well, that’s not entirely accurate—I’ve had some commutes that have taken over three hours, but fortunately only when [...]
Well, the event evaluation forms for last weekend’s NYC CodeCamp are IN and have been tallied. And the winner is…
Just kidding. There is no winner because this year we decided to do a few things differently than in years past:
Eval forms didn’t contain numeric scoring for pre-defined categories (e.g., “Speaker was knowledgable about their topic”, [...]
Next Thursday evening (2/4/2010) from 6:00pm-9:00pm I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia Alt.NET user group on real-world Domain Driven Design implementation patterns in .NET.
The full title of the session is going to be “Lessons from the Trenches: Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for DDD in .NET” and the overview synopsis will be:
In this session, we’ll take a [...]
Episode 23 of the Connected Show podcast has been released! In this episode, host Peter Laudati interviews Andrew Brust about what he saw at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and then proceeds to interview none other than yours-truly about some of the work that myself and others have been doing with the Agile Firestarter [...]
