Scott gave a two part covering the following:-
•Automating Everything •Source Control Best Practices •Continuous Integration/Delivery •Enterprise Identity and SSO Integration •Web Development Best Practices •Data Storage Options •Data Storage Partitioning Approaches •Using unstructured Blob storage •Designing to survive failures •Monitoring and Diagnostics •Transient Fault Handling •Distributed Caching •Using the Queue Centric Work Pattern
Was a really great insight into the capabilities of Azure and how as developers we can use these features for building applications right now.
Jeremy discussed how his team has a strategy for faster and more productive manual testing and troubleshooting when using RavenDB and just how easy it is to use RavenDB for in memory creation and deletion of the entire database for unit testing purposes. He talked about how automated testing efforts frequently fail because the tests are too time-consuming to author, too brittle when the underlying application changes and showed examples of how he tried to make this process easier.
Uncle Bob talked about a number of things from the past to the future and was as always very entertaining but also thought provoking - this guys a legend and listening to him talking was a pleasure.
Burke gave us a run through of Directives in AngularJS, what they are and how they work showing code samples.
Tim talked about how testing JavaScript—the modern Web’s ubiquitous development language—can be a daunting task. In his session he introduced us to some methods to do just that…but with a Dungeons and Dragons twist.
