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Anyone knowing me, knows how passionate I am about architecture and how long I was working in last two years on getting architect title. So, when I've been told that I would be a Solution Architect of the Monster employer platform I was literally knocked down from excitement, because employer code base is impressive amount of code and different architecture concepts mixed into one unique system. Felt like dream coming true :)
I'm 100% sure there would be a lot of tough challenges in upcoming period but I am looking forward to each one of them!

I had a session for the Prague .NET user group about design patterns usage in real world.
I spoke about patterns not usually presented: Composite, Service stub, singleton, lazy load, mono state, and dependency injection.
I believe most of the attendees had a good time and found something useful there.

Have you ever ask yourselves what really design patterns are, when to use them and when to run away from them? How composition can find you a good job? How stubbing can help you getting promoted? How laziness can save your project? How injection can be pleasant thing?
All those questions and maybe some more Nikola Malovic would try to answer for you on this session, so in case you care for a cup of architectural talk with some pattern biscuits, stop by.

Antonin Jelinek (webmaster of Bohemians FC web site) and I had a session about Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 for the Prague .NET user group.
Antonin presented logging and data block on the examples from his web site and I've presented exception, validation and policy injection block
Session was more than 3 hours long but I beleive it was well spent 3 hours for most of the attendees

Cílem přednášky je seznámit s použitím Enterprise Library a její základní architekturou a jednotlivými aplikačními bloky. Kromě toho popíšeme, jak sami v praxi EntLib používáme, jak komunikujeme s vývojovým týmem a kde vidíme její silné a slabé stránky. V neposlední řadě se podíváme na její vývoj a chyby v minulosti a budoucí rozvoj směřující do integrace s velmi zajímavými projekty jako je např. WCFS. Akce bude přednášena v angličtině.

I've been in Microsoft HQ in Redmond, USA on 3 day of intensive Commerce Server 2007 training.
It was really unique opportunity to see how Microsoft campus looks, to visit Microsoft store :) , to listen Max Akbar himself presenting 3 whole days

Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelism division was so kind to invite all the developers (and others) interested in Commerce Server 2007 to came to 3 day training boot camp in Redmond, from June 12th - June 14th.
The training material are presented by the Max Akbar, which blog is one of the most useful source of information on Commerce Server 2007.
The boot camp is organized into the modules with the hands on labs at the end of the module and all the presented material is recorded on a DVD so the participants could watch them after the boot camp.

I had a session about "Extreme" Test Driven Development (AKA Behavioral Driven Design) for the Prague .NET user group.
The first part of presentation was focused on the ways how TDD can help in increasing quality of the produced code, decoupling the teams working on dependant blocks of code and increase quality of communication between the team members.
Second part has been related to more practical things: MVP design pattern and mocking with Rhino mocks

Session agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Making an example of Word “Functional Requirement (FR)” which would be used through the whole session
3. MVP related section of the session (as an introduction to TDD)
4. TDD related part
5. “Crossing the worlds” part
6. Q/A