I just got back yesterday from the Basta! conference in Germany. It was a great event, very busy for me but also lots of fun. My sessions all went very well and I had a great time talking to people at the Developer Express booth. Thanks to everybody who stopped by the booth or came to one of my sessions!
Here’s all the content from my sessions (if you attended Basta!, you should also receive a CD shortly with all the session slides and samples):
I might be late to the party, but I’ll still try to help spread the word: DDD 6 takes place on November 24th this year, and the call for speakers has just been opened. If you’ve always wanted to find good event to do your own session at, this might be it - go here to submit your session proposal!
Another new thing to mention: for Basta! conference Spring Edition 2008, I’m a member of the advisory board as well as the track chair for C#. Should be very interesting, not least because C# will play a very important role in that conference in February. A call for papers is already out - please feel free to contact me if you haven’t received it but you think you should have or it would otherwise be interesting for you.
If you’re in Germany, here’s (hopefully) interesting news: starting from issue 11, my column “C# Corner” will be a regular feature in dot.net magazin. I’m looking forward to writing articles for that, on new and interesting things going on around the C# language, as well as best practices and whatever else comes to mind, really :-).
I’m now at Edinburgh airport, on my way to the Basta! conference in Germany. Yeah, I know it starts only Monday, but I’m staying with a friend for two days first.
Turns out Basta! is going to be extremely busy for me… I already knew I was going to be the Developer Express representative there, and that I was going to do four sessions, and that I’d attend the Basta Innovation Award ceremony as a member of the award jury, but now it turns out that I’m also doing a workshop on Monday morning be …
It’s a problem, when you work with Expression types in any way, to understand the structure of complex expressions and possibly recreate them. After all, there are 46 entries in the ExpressionType enum, many of them corresponding to their own Expression-derived type, all of those with their own specific properties… in other words, it’s not entirely intuitive.
To help visualization of Expressions, I have created the ExpressionDumper, which outputs any expression (by default) in a nice hie …
I’m posting this mainly to remind myself how I did it, when the time comes to do it again. I added some detailed instructions (like where to cd to and so on) in case somebody else is interested in these instructions. So let’s see:
I was at NRW 07 last Friday and had a great time. For Developer Express I did a mini “booth” there and had a chance to demo some of our products to interested attendees. I also did my .NET 3 - The Game Challenge session again, which went fantastic this time — according to the feedback, it was one of the best three sessions at the event! Apparently nobody had a problem with VS 2008 beta 2 crashing at least three times :-)
I also met up with a bunch of people, some of which I hadn’t known befor …