Austin Code Camp 2010 – Recap

Posted by Rhonda

I attended the 2010 Austin Code Camp and like the previous two years, it did not disappoint. There were six session tracks for a day of learning.

Below are the sessions I attended

Powershell Awesomeness in Your Deployment Scripts

Speaker: Eric Hexter (@ehexter)

High Points

Powershell is basically a command shell on steroids
Great for scripting
MS Deploy
Web PI – Platform installer
PSake – Powershell build automation tool
PStrami – Powershell deployment automation tool
You can bootstrap Powershell via a batch file
Powergui – IDE for Powershell

Introduction to MongoDB

Speaker: Chris Edwards

High Points

NoSQL Movement – A movement promoting a loosely defined class of non-relational data stores.
SQL is not always the best option, nor is it the only one.
MongoDB – Document-oriented database, schema free
MongoDB is commercially supported by 10Gen

Other features of MongoDB

Document-based queries
Map reduce
Grid fs
Geo-spacial indexing

Sites using MongoDB

SourceForge
GitHub
ShutterFly
bit.ly

Supported OS: OSX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD

MongoShell – the grammar of the shell is pure JavaScript

Links: Slides | Code

Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET

Speaker: Keyvan Nayyeri (@keyvan)

High Points

AOP isolates cross-cutting/supporting functions

It is mainly supported by the Java community

Cross Cutting Concerns

Logging
Thread synchronization
Caching
Lazy Loading
Dependency Injection
Data Binding

Principles of AOP

Joint-point – points in the codebase where code is executed
Point-cut – join points using a set theory of advice
Advice

Potential Issues – Debugging, efficiency

Weaving – Object oriented code with integrated aspects

Frameworks

Aspect J
JAC
LinFu
PostSharp
Spring.Net
Loom.net
nAspect

Slides

Advance Your Debugging Skills with VS 2010

Speaker: Rob Vettor

High Points

Data Tip – Hover over variables and objects for drillable tips in VS2010. There is also a way to keep the tips visible during debug mode. Using the Pin Tips, you can build your own custom debug windows.

Breakpoint enhancements – Add labels to breakpoints and filter based on those values.

Intellitrace is only available with the Ultimate version of Visual Studio.

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Twitter hashtag: #austincodecamp

My Austin Code Camp 2010 Photos

I did not realize until I was leaving, how close I was to where the plane crashed into the Echelon I building here in Austin a few months back.