Sunday, June 22, 2003 - Posts
Martin Spedding, Alex Lowe, Dustin Mihalik and Julia Lerman have been commenting on the .NET communities involvement in Academia and the Java bias among young people. There is a fairly large group at Old Dominion University who come to our meetings sometimes and vice-a-versa.
They need better speakers though. The last one I went there was painful to watch. The guy who was presenting (from Microsoft) didn't know how to start Media Player to begin his presentation which drew a lot of chuckles from the students. The presentation on VS.NET Academic wasn't any better. So yes, I believe this is an area we ALL can do better in.
Look Up In The Sky...It's The.......SUN!
We on the East Coast haven't seen that around here in quite a while.
[Now Playing: The Corrs - One Night (04:38)]
Dave Burke had some interesting comments on the N-Tier architecture that I had never thought of and it sparked some more things in my head.
"Again, thanks to Tom, I "got it," and have been building truly logical layers, keeping the UI layer tightly tied to the UI (currently web forms and web controls), building a business class layer for ALL non-UI logic, and a fully separate database layer. In other words, I am building every web app with the idea of replacing it with a winforms front end, so I am constantly thinking how to build it for today's web requirements and yet easily upgrade it to a winforms app. "
That's a good way to think of it. I' develope for the web (right now anyway) so for me the UI is always in a browser. But I can see a time when a requirement may pop up to convert that to a fat client app. But more exciting to me (OK maybe exciting is a bit strong but you grok my meaning) is the fact that the framework is growing. Microsoft keeps adding cool stuff. More security, etc. in v1.1, and who knows what will be in v2. There may be some really cool whiz-bang gadgets in a future upgrade that you want to incorporate into your app.. Having your app. separated into different layers of functionality makes that switch SO much easier.
I guess I "got it" now too. Now if I can only get back to studying for 70-310. Ugh! ;)