July 17, 2010 LvivNetUserGroup, Personal 4 comments
Few bestowals
Being software developer is often pleasure, except of money it sometimes could even bring gifts.
VS 2010 Bag I’ve got at 3rd Lviv .Net User Group meeting. This bag isn’t really of good quality, but it brings me pleasure to use it, since now Visual Studio 2010 covers my back :)
Working Effectively with Legacy Code came to me from USA and I’m really looking forward to read it soon. It looks that this is going to be my first non-electronic book in English that I will read full-length.
Book on Silverlight 4 (also got at Lviv .Net UG) isn’t something that I hurry to read, because I’m sure that I will start with articles on Silverlight when I’ll get to it.
Lviv .NET User Group: My presentation on NHibernate
July 15, 2010 LvivNetUserGroup, NHibernate, Presentation No comments
Hello, as many of you know yesterday I spoke to NHibernate at local .NET User Group.
I won 20 beers, because we’ve got > 30 attendees
It was group’s 4-th meeting and it went extremely well. Above 40 people participated and for me it was biggest audience I ever had to talk to during one hour or so. For another speaker – Derik Whittaker – I’m sure that this is not biggest audience he had, but maybe the biggest foreign language speaking audience. If I’m wrong please correct me.
Audience asked questions
People were asking me lot of questions and I tried to answer quickly and easily, but keeping in mind that I should continue and be in time, since it is bad practice to overtime speech.
I asked questions
To my own surprise flow of delivering this presentation was so smooth and harmonic with audience. Asking people simple questions, making them shaking their hands and keeping attention, because maybe another time I’ll ask exactly someone from them.
I’m proud for my presentation skills
From day to day I become better in my ability to talk easily to technical audience. This time I’ve got the most sophisticated audience I ever had. They all had good experience working on different projects. So it was not like talking to university guys, who are very “green” in their understanding of technology and how things should look like.
Presentation itself
You could take a look at my presentation below.
View more presentations from Andriy Buday.
Not enough time to finish my second demo
For my second demo I allocated about 20 minutes, but it turned out, that I got about 10 and also talking to it and coding takes longer than sitting with my own keyboard and typing it at light speed. So sorry guys for not showing what I planned there.
What was planned and I did not show is: demoing lazy loading, chasing, complex Criteria API, and maybe the interesting – implementing own UnitOfWork and NHibernate repositories, approaches to build domain model with NHibernate.
BTW: I’m also going to have another blog post on NHibernate itself.
Really looking forward to get your feedback! Please leave your comments!
