On Thursday October 16 the Victoria .NET Developers Association welcomes Donald Belcham from Edmonton.
Donald Belcham is an independent contractor in Edmonton. He has worked with .NET for the last 5 years and currently works with both web and smart client applications. Donald is an avid practitioner of agile development methodologies, pragmatic coding practices and delivering quality and value to the business. A Microsoft MVP in C#, Donald is active in the community as the President of the Edmonton .NET User Group, an organizer of the Edmonton Code Camp and a speaker at User Groups and Code Camps across Canada and in the United States. His thoughts on software development, .NET and C# can be found at http://www.igloocoder.com
Title: Introduction to ORM Fundamentals
Description:
What is ORM (Object Relational Mapping) and what does it have to do with your applications? Come to this session to find out. We'll explain what ORM is meant to do, and go over the available tools like Entity Framework and NHibernate. If you've ever wondered what all the buzz is about with ORM, this is the session for you.
Topics:
- What is an ORM...really...what is it?
- Persistence Ignorance
- Persistence By Reachability
- Unit of Work
- Lazy Loading
- Re-usabilty
- Where do ORMs start to cause pain
Intended Audience Skill Level: All
Date/Time: Thursday, October 16, 2008 from 6:30-9:30pm (talk starts at 7)
Location: University of Victoria, New Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room ECS124 see map
Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Oct 16th Event"