On Wednesday 21 October I will be visiting the Kristiansand chapter of NNUG to give two Silverlight presentations. The first will be about the MVVM design pattern, and the second on building business focused applications using .NET RIA Services. After the NNUG meeting there will be a geekbeer get-together at Patrick’s. Details and registration for the meeting is up on the NNUG site.

On Thursday and Friday (22-23 October) I will be attending the Smidig 2009 (Agile 2009) conference in Oslo. This will be my first time attending the Smidig conference, and I’m really looking forward to it. The format of the conference is 4 lightning talks pr hour before lunch, and open spaces after lunch. Judging by the number of submitted talks I think it is going to be a really interesting conference, and I hope to learn allot about how to run successful agile software projects. I’m also a big fan of open spaces and the interaction between conference attendees it enables.

Since I was planning to attend the conference I made a last minute decision to submit a talk on UX prototyping in agile projects using Balsamiq and SketchFlow. The talk got accepted, which means I will not only be attending – I will also be speaking at the conference!

I’m looking forward to doing some presentations again, and I hope to see you in Kristiansand or Oslo next week!

(Time-lapse video taken by @petesamuel from a presentation I gave earlier this year) 

I've uploaded the slides from yesterdays user group presentation in Trondheim. There wasn't really much example code worth uploading, so I just uploaded the Power Point slides. The example code that ships with ATLAS shows most of the stuff I demoed yesterday.

The presentation I gave was about a project me, Gøran and Espen have been working on since early spring. The project is an application that runs in 8 hospitals in the region helping them to track post surgery infections. In the application we used allot of Atlas to improve the user experience. So during the presentation I show cased some of the areas where we used Atlas, and demoed how to implement stuff such as the update panel, the auto complete textbox and the modal popup extender.

I also talked about contentious integration and Cruise Control .NET and how that was a success factor in our project. It turned out that very few knew about CC.NET, so I spent some time discussing it.

After the main presentation I fired up XNA and used the Spacewar starter kit for a friendly competition giving away Francesco Balenas book "Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Base Class Library".

I've added a set of links relevant to the presentations, including a link to the excellent book "Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects", which discuss continuous integration and other techniques to ship your software project on time.

• The Official Microsoft "ATLAS" Site
• ScottGu's post about the new Atlas names and the feature delivery plan
• Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
• The Microsoft XNA Framework
• Martin Fowlers article on Cuntinuous Integration - Great intro stuff if you're new to CC
• Cruice Control .NET

Oh, and I have to mention that the Norwegian .NET User Group just released a brand new site which looks really promising. Now we just have to fill it with content.

We need more speakers to keep NNUG going, so if you'd like to give a presentation at NNUG Trondheim, drop a mail to trondheim@nnug.no.

If you have any questions or comment related to the presentation just add them as a comment to this blog post.

The NNUG Presentation last Thursday went really well. Anders did a great introduction to the Composite User Interface Application Block. My RAS presentation went well, and I talked about how we made the client “smart” by implementing offline functionality and network awareness. I also talked about Web Service compression. The links to the Web Service Compression Soap Extension and the Hans on Lab describing the Network Awareness Component can be found in the Power Point slides. If you have any questions regarding compression or network awareness just post a comment in the blog. Next NNUG meeting in Trondheim is 20.april, and the topic is the Tablet PC SDK and Windows Presentation Foundation. Looking forward to that!

Download Power Point Slides

This Thursday I’m giving a presentation at the local .NET User group. The focus of this user group meeting is smart clients. There will be two presentations. The first one is by Anders Hammervold and is about the Composite User Interface Application Block. The second one will be my presentation where I’ll talk about RAS, a smart client application Abeo developed for field workers at Trondheim Energiverk (an electric power company). The focus of my presentation will be about some of the thinks you’ll have to think about to when planning offline capabilities, deployment, occasionally connected clients and limited bandwidth.

I’ll talk about how we built the RAS application, and I’ll also give a few concrete examples and tips you cane take home with you. I’ll show how to detect network state and implement two-way web service compression.

Sign up by sending an e-mail to nnug@abeo.no.