GIDS Day 1

GIDS Summit on its Day 1, had some fantastic sessions, for beginners we had the enhancement on input devices and how to optimize the way we code from Mark Miller from devExpress. He showed some really handy tools to optimize the way we code by using short codes. That was followed by a awesome demostration of witing code using his toy guitar which we could all get used to :) .

we had a another very interesting session on Test driven development (TDD), really efficient way of writing features.

Azure caching API's were an eye opener regarding the scalability of windows azure apps. can wait for the API's to come out later this month. Already working on implementing then on my ongoing project.

Design patterns in .NET and how to efficiently use them was a highlight of the day with interesting use of lambda expressions, creating restricted classes and so on.

Rounding it off were couple of interesting session on NOSQL by Gary short. Is NOSQL the way in the future was answered very tactfully by Gary with a short yes and a no. hats off to the guy , holding the audience for a complete hour. looking forward to have chat with him later on NOSQL.

Finally some basic application of facebook hosted on Windows Azure, really interesting way to look at scalability with respect to social media sites. hope i can do something on it soon. Though .NET is not quite as flexible as PHP when it come to facebook . Will try to get a sample app soon.

Looking forward to Day 2 of GIDS and hope it will be as awesome as the last one.