Tim Barcz

The sweet feeling of success

Each Friday we have an in-house training session.  Topics vary from how we do things interally to new idea such as NetTiers, CodeSmith or ActiveRecord/NHibernate.  Really it's quite cool that our company does this.  If nothing else it gets the developers together once a week in a room to learn something together.

Today was my day to teach on the provider model design pattern, something I've been a proponent for internally as we are having scaling issues while also offering customization.  I prepared and wrote some code to explain the concepts and printed some flow charts and what not.  All of it came together wonderfully!!!  In fact afterwards I felt like everyone in the room, even some non-developers (design guys) could understand what was going to be going on in the development camp in the future.

The kicker for me is when I asked for comments/questions, I had just one comment from one of our more stringent attenders.  He said, "Great job, I've actually watched a Microsoft presentation on the topic and this was better/made more sense"

I wonder if I'll finally be promoted in rank in the Ze Frank's League of Awesomeness 

Tim