Austin .Net User Group (ADNUG)
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for executable specifications in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
Location: Microsoft's NEW location
Quarry Oaks II
10900 Stonelake Blvd.
Building B, Suite 225
Austin, TX 78759
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I love Fibonacci sequences!
I love Fibonacci sequences! :)
Topic: Functional
Topic: Functional Programming for Everyday .Net Development
Forget the silly Fibonacci sequence examples and abstract math problems, how do functional programming techniques help me do my job with typical enterprise development projects? In this talk I'll look at places where it's advantageous to compose code with first class functions instead of objects. I'll show how to use Continuation Passing Style to achieve lower coupling in your code internals by getting closer to the "Tell, Don't Ask" ideal. Finally, I'll show how passing blocks can be a way to formulate API's that result in less code for the consumer to write, more readable code, and fewer errors.