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Explore how to use auto-

mocking containers to improve

and streamline your unit

tests, and to exercise your IoC

container in a testable fashion.

Using Ninject and the Ninject

Mocking Kernel package as

an example, this demo-led

session will take you through

the problem space that auto-

mocking containers address,

covering lessons learned from

a large-scale development.

Starting from a simple project,

Courtenay will demonstrate

the fragility of existing unit

tests and how developers can

be discouraged from making

comprehensive tests because

they can be an inhibitor to

refactoring processes. He will

then introduce the idea of

auto-mocking containers by

demonstrating the use of the

Ninject Mocking Kernel.

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WHAT ARE AUTO-

MOCKING CONTAINERS,

AND WHY SHOULD YOU

USE THEM?

Ed

Courtenay

SQL Server has a complete

set of transaction isolation

levels, providing any of the

four pessimistic and two

optimistic locking levels.

In order to achieve a good

compromise between data

integrity and performance

suitable for business needs,

it is essential to choose the

right one. A developer needs

to thoroughly understand

the possible problems that

can be caused by selecting

an inappropriate isolation

level. So in this session,

Sarka will demonstrate how

they all work, explaining the

infrastructure behind each

one, and leave you with an

understanding of which

levels are best suited to which

problems.

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SQL SERVER

TRANSACTION

ISOLATION LEVELS

Dejan

Sarka

In this session, Milner will

explain the importance of

brokered messaging and

the various tools you can

use to implement it. He will

discuss MSMQ, Service Bus

for Windows and Windows

Azure, and RabbitMQ. You

will learn about core brokered

messaging concepts and

how each of these tools

supports them. If you are

building distributed systems

and aren’t using a message

broker in some fashion, you

need to come to this session

to learn why you should.

Demonstrations will cover

simple queued messaging with

all frameworks, scale out with

multiple receivers, integrating

RabbitMQ with Service Bus

using AMQP, and much, much

more.

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DID YOU GET MY

MESSAGE? BROKERED

MESSAGING ON

WINDOWS AND

BEYOND

Matt

Milner

Full-day workshop

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REFACTORING SKILLS

FOR TDD

Roy

Osherove

In early 2013, a skunkworks

team of designers, developers

and strategists came together

to rethink the website of one

of Canada’s largest telcos.

Beta.telus.com was the first

project to come out of the

TELUS Digital Labs, and

there were many lessons

learned along the way, such

as how to implement Lean

methodology in an Enterprise-

loving company, how to get

designers and developers

rapid prototyping together,

and more. What worked

and what needed re-work

in this large mobile-first,

responsive redesign? Get a

behind the scenes look into

some of the processes, tools

and technologies used to get

beta.telus.com off the ground

in only four months, with

updates almost every week.

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BETA.TELUS.COM:

RESPONSIVE,

ITERATIVE,

COLLABORATIVE

Pearl

Chen

Many developers have seen

the Task Parallel Library APIs

for concurrent applications,

but have only played around

with toy examples. In this

session, Goldshtein will

demonstrate how to extract

concurrency and parallelism

from seemingly impossible

situations, how to gain

scalability from lock-free

code, and how to analyse

real-world parallel

applications with profilers

to see the precise benefits

gained from parallelisation.

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TASK AND DATA

PARALLELISM: REAL-

WORLD EXAMPLES

Sasha

Goldshtein

Perhaps you’ve heard about

the next generation of

databases roughly classified

as NoSQL databases? These

databases are generally much

better than RDBMS at scaling,

performance and ease-of-

development (for instance, in

NoSQL the object-relational

impedance mismatch usually

disappears). Unfortunately,

many talks on NoSQL are

very academic and general.

Not this one. In this session,

Kennedy will explore the

NoSQL landscape and look

at the various options out

there. Then he’ll demonstrate

how to leverage MongoDB (a

popular NoSQL DB) to build

.NET applications using LINQ

as the data access language.

From there he will build a

.NET application using LINQ

and MongoDB in a series of

interactive demos using Visual

Studio 2012 and C#.

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APPLIED NOSQL

IN .NET

Michael

Kennedy

Everybody is doing it; nobody

wants to talk about it in public

• uniqueidentifiers that are

used as clustered keys in SQL

Server. They have a lot of pros

for devs, but DBAs just cry

when they see them used in

this manner. In this session,

Aschenbrenner will cover the

basics about uniqueidentifiers,

why they are good and bad, and

how you can find out if they

affect the performance of your

database. If they are affecting

your database negatively,

you will also learn some best

practices how you can resolve

those performance limitations

without changing your

underlying application.

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UNIQUEIDENTIFIERS

AS CLUSTERED KEYS

IN SQL SERVER

Klaus

Aschenbrenner

Full-day workshop

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REFACTORING SKILLS

FOR TDD

Roy

Osherove

There are certain types of

requirements that necessitate

developers thinking in four

dimensions. Specifically,

dealing with the passage

of time in various business

processes. In this session,

Dahan will take you through

some common scenarios

that will show the kind of

business problems that

are created by traditional

programming techniques, as

well as solutions from the field

of Event-Stream Processing

(also known as Complex Event

Processing). Although there

is foundational support for

these patterns in most queuing

technology, we’ll see why more

supportive debugging and

visualisation tools are needed.

You, too, can be a Time Lord.

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PROGRAMMING IN

THE FOURTH

DIMENSION

Udi

Dahan

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