Claudio Lassala in Software Development

My interview for the Deep Fried Bytes Podcast came out last night. You can check it out here. We talked about composited WPF applications, prism, and all that fun stuff.

Also, this week I’m at TechEd Europe. I’ll be doing my “Building a Composite WPF Application” session. I’m also helping out at the “Ask The Experts” Visual Studio booth here at the conference.

Some of you may remember I’ve presented three sessions at the MS TechDays virtual conference a couple of months ago. Out of 80 speakers, I’ve been fortunate to have had both the “highest number of attendees” and “most scoring” sessions. I’d like to thank everybody who attended to my sessions, as well as those who took the time to rate it. My big prize out of that was the chance to speak at TechEd Europe, and a nice travel certificate covering costs. Ain’t that pretty cool?  :)

Quick band updates for those who care…   :)

• Gig on Friday, October 23: We’re playing another gig at the BFE club in Houston. We’ll be going on stage around midnight. You can get more information about the gig here.
• New material: we’re currently working on 3 new songs that are starting to sound really good. We may even be playing one of these news songs at the gig on the 23rd.
• Videos: I’ve spent some time editing videos from 5 cameras off of our gig back in July. It was an interesting learning experience for me because I had not done much video editing before. It was kind of hard in the beginning because I got the videos in very different formats from each one of our buddies who filmed the show, so first I had to find the right software to convert them all into a standard format, and then edit the whole thing. I think the result was pretty good, considering that there was no professional camera crew working there.  :)  I’ve uploaded most of the videos to YouTube (listed below). I’ve made a DVD out of it, which has much better video and audio quality. We’re considering packing it up and maybe making it a available through our website. If we do so, I’ll post details about it later.

Here’s a list with links to the videos. Enjoy it!  :)

• Children of War
• Faithless
• Century of Lies
• Fool’s March
• Chains of Cruelty
• Boundaries of Corruption
• Legacy
• By My Grace
• King of the Blind

Thanks everybody for coming out to my presentation at the HDNUG last night. It seems like everybody had a good time, so staying up until 3:30am the previous morning preparing for the presentation has seemed to pay off.  :)

I’d really appreciate if you took the time to rate the session here.

As promised, here’s the material from the presentation.

CORRECTION: I meant October 8th (not 9th…).   :)

I’m speaking at the HDNUG next Thursday, October 8 (meeting starts at 6pm). The topic is listed below. Hope to see you there!

Be a Professional Developer and Write Clean Code!

Poorly written code can be created quickly, but it comes at a cost of high maintenance. Most of the time, code can be improved easily by following some simple practices. Professional developers should know these practices and tools and apply it to their work every day. In this session we'll cover the importance of writing clean code, the kind of attitude all developers should have towards the code they produce, as well as the practices and tools that can be used to aid you become a better developer.

NOTE: The HDNUG site is currently under maintenance, so it may be missing some information when you look there. The meeting is still at the Microsoft office as usual (One Briar Lake Place, 2000 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. S. #350, Houston , TX 77042)..

EPS Software Corp (www.eps-software.com) is currently accepting resumes for a full time Software Project Manager and C#/WPF Developer. The position will be on-site at the EPS Software headquarters in Northwest Houston (Spring), Texas. Primary responsibilities include acting as both a PM and a Developer on a medium sized, multi-year project.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Expert in Agile Development Methodologies
- Proven PM track record with teams building both Windows and Web Apps
- Knowledge of various PM methodologies and when to use each type of process
- Lean experience a plus
- Kanban experience a plus
- SCRUM experience a plus
- Waterfall experience a plus
- Experience in teaching/leading teams with members who aren’t familiar with the various development processes
- Expert in VS Team System
- Overall knowledge of general .NET Architecture |
- 5+ years delivering successful Microsoft .NET solutions using C#
- WPF
- MS SQL Server
- Silverlight a plus
- VSTS a plus
- Test Driven Development a plus
- Strong client facing skills

EPS Software Corp provides leading edge software solutions and services for clients worldwide. We employ world-class talent who continuously research, evaluate and use the latest development methodologies, tools and techniques around Microsoft .NET and SQL Server. In addition EPS is the publisher of CODE Magazine (www.codemag.com) - the Leading Independent magazine for .NET Developers and offers training classes for .NET Developers (www.code-training.com) and conversion services for companies looking to upgrade their Visual FoxPro applications to .NET (www.vfpconversion.com).

We offer a competitive compensation package including medical benefits, retirement plan (with generous match), life insurance, long term disability, vacation, sick and holiday pay, casual atmosphere and more.

EPS Software is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

If you are interested, please send your resume to jobs@eps-software.com

I’ve just uploaded the material from my presentations at the Houston TechFest 2009. It was a great event once again, and I’ve had a great time presenting there. As usual, I’ve a chance to get together with old buddies, got to meet new ones, and heard great feedback on my sessions.

If you attended any of my sessions (or all of them, like some stalkers did ;) ), I’d *really* appreciate if you could take a minute or two and rate the sessions in the links below. Any feedback you provide would be great so I know what I need to improve next time:

• Rate “Building Composite WPF Application”
• Rate “Isolating Dependencies in Unit Tests Using Mocks and Stubs”
• Rate “Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP”

The material (slide decks and source code) for my three sessions can be downloaded here.

If you’re in the Houston area, I’ll be speaking at the HDNUG in October, so I hope so see some of you again over there!  :)

Thanks once again.

Just got back from Frederick, MD, where I spoke at the FredNUG last night. I’ve had fun with the presentation (Refactoring, TDD, Command design pattern, delegates, lambdas, fluent interfaces, extension methods, clean code…). According to the feedback I got, it seems like everybody learned a little something, so that means mission accomplished.  :)

As promised, here’s a link to the material presented there. And of course, I’d like to thank everybody who came to the presentation.