Day 2 at the BASTA! On Tour was dedicated to different kind of small workshops.
Web 2.0 Applications with ASP.net MVC, Entity Framework and jQueryFirst
of all to the session itself. What has been presented was mainly the MVC framework and very little to the usage of
jQuery itself. The session did not contain much new information for me personally, as I have watched already a couple
of ASP.net MVC video tutorials. Moreover, having worked with J2EE and the Spring MVC framework you don't have a lot of
difficulties as the concepts are nearly identical. When I then started working in the .Net environment with ASP.net
WebForms it just felt strange. I understand Microsofts core idea behind the ASP.net WebForms design decision about
hiding away the web's request/response paradigm, making it more similar to the WinForms desktop development but that's
the wrong way and now they seem to finally have understood it.
I just love the MVC concept. It again brings the
developer much nearer to the actual web, making it easier to integrate modern Web 2.0 technologies like jQuery or equip
your webapps with HTML5 features. Finally the MVC paradigm is popular for being in favor of unit testing.
JavaScript Patterns: OOP & Co.I'm
currently taking a deeper look at the JavaScript language and was therefore curious of what the speaker would going to
present at such quite promising session title. In my opinion, the session was too introductory, but that may have been
just my personal impression. The speaker presented some of the peculiarities of creating objects in JavaScript and its
notion of "object" inheritance mechanism.
What I lacked was a bit of an outlook onto some of the popular patterns
such as the module or singleton pattern.
Entity
Framework: Tips, Tricks and Best PracticesPersonally this was the best session in terms of new
information I got. The main content was about using the Entity Framework in a layered architecture, how to properly
separate entities and the EF configuration and context and some of the drawbacks and advantages of each alternative.
RIA Best PracticesThis session concentrated
most on ASP.net Ajax, the ScriptManager and UpdatePanel. Wasn't so much what I expected, as I consider MS Ajax to be
somehow obsolete, given MS's official support for jQuery now. Moreover there wasn't anything new to what I had already
worked with.
Generally speaking, the two days at BASTA! On Tour were quite good and revealed some
interesting things I did not yet know. At least they did lead to discussions which is always a good sign :)
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