Are you ready for ArcReady.com events!?!
Session 1: 9:00am to 10:15am
An Introduction to Software Architecture (or “What do architects do, anyway?”)
In this session, we’ll take a look at the role of architecture from a historical perspective and learn how to apply this perspective to the modern practice of Software Architecture. We’ll examine the three major roles that a software architect assumes and how those roles interact with business users to create an architecture plan. Finally, we’ll examine how architects deliver a plan to produce a quality solution while dealing with the constraints and the availability of resources.
Session 2: 10:30am to 11:45 am
Architecture Assets – Patterns and Frameworks
In this session, we’ll examine the common packaging for architectural assets including Patterns, Frameworks and Reference Implementations. In order to help aspiring architects to begin using these assets in their current projects, we’ll look at specific examples of these assets implemented on the .NET Platform. Through demos, scenarios and customer examples we’ll help attendees understand how they can use and learn architectural principles from key architecture assets like Enterprise Library, the Composite Applications Block and the Web Services Software Factory.
I have registered and plan to attend the ARCReady sessions in Dallas on 2/26/07, unless something unexpected happens as with anything else, these last few weeks of my wife's pregnancy - seven weeks or less!
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.