Matias Woloski’s Blog

When: September 20th, 2007
Where: Paseo La Plaza, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I’ll be presenting about "user experience" and what could be achieved using WPF in a scenario where offline is required. This is a preview…

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I finally found the time to write 5 things about me after being tagged by Andres Aguiar, Pablo Galiano, Eugenio Pace and Diego Dagum.

1. My first computer was a 386DX. Since there was nothing to do I decided to learn the DOS help side by side :) After knowing everything about DOS and hacking autoexec.bat and config.sys I moved to do Quick Basic simple games… cool.

2. I've played piano since I was 10 years old. That's my wire to earth (in spanish “mi clabe a tierra”). Play tennis and footbal are the sports I like to do. I'm living with my girlfriend for 2 years now, but still not married…

3. I live and love Argentina. I believe there is no better place to live than here despite of everyday problems and the unstable situation, politically and economically speaking.

4. I've worked since my high school graduation at 18 years old. I've been always fan of the latest technology and I am always willing to learn new things. I'm working at Southworks and this company and the people working here allowed me to do this kind of things and always pushed me to the next level.

5. I'm 26 years old and currently I'm developing my thesis exploring “Software as a Service” to get my engineering degree in the University of Buenos Aires.

Now, I pass the ball to: Mariano Szklanny, Johnny Halife, Angel “Java” Lopez, Ariel Schapiro and Juan Pablo Garcia.

I’m presenting SaaS with Roberto Schatz, Ramiro Iturregui and Ariel Schapiro at Microsoft Argentina headquarters. The talk will be oriented to ISVs and architects who wants to know about the business model and the architectural technical challenges.

We will explore the LitwareHR application published on february.

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It was the last week during the Strategic Architecture Forum (SAF) here at Redmond.
More than 250 architects from all over the world assisted to this event where Billg gave a 90 minutes Q&A session among other great presentations by the Architecture Strategy Team. Wojtek from patterns & practices presented CAB and the Smart Client Software Factory. Also there was lots of Software as a Service content

From left to right: Matias Woloski, Bill Gates, Eric Rudder (behind) and Mariano Szklanny

Southworks is a place where people learn all the time. For example, one of the developers, Jony Menasches, is certifying MCAD for .NET 2.0 and as part of this process he is blogging the new things that he is learning.

http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/jony/

Pablo “Lito” Damiani AKA Liztalk did a very intensive training on Biztalk the last year and now he is doing consulting services in a huge project. His blog is full of tips applied to Biztalk in enterprise projects (MSMQT performance, NLB, etc.)

http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/lito

Ezequiel Bella lately has been working heavily with TFS and MSBuild to set up our build environment, including Continuous Integration, FXCOP rules, Check-in policies, and what not.

http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/ebella

What? TechNight:
Fábricas de Software
When? 11 de Agosto / 18:30 a 21:30 hs.
Where? Microsoft Argentina, Bouchard 710,
4º piso, Buenos Aires.
Who? Angel Lopez (Microsoft MVP), Alejandro Jack (Microsoft MVP, Southworks S.R.L.),
Matias Woloski (Dev team Patterns & Practices, Southworks S.R.L.), Juan
Maronese.

Together with Angel and Alex we will be talking about
software factories and the concepts around them and finally we will go deep into patterns & practices software factories.
See
you there!

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What? How To: Programación en capas arquitecturas y patrones
When? 27 de Julio / 9 a 13 hs.
Where? Microsoft Argentina, Bouchard 710, 4º piso, Buenos Aires.
Who? Ángel López (MVP Visual Developer - Visual J#) y Matias Woloski.

Together with Angel we will be talking about architecture in general, going through each layer and finally showing the software factories initiative from patterns & practices.
See you there!

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I’ve arrived to Redmond the last week. So far, it was a great week working in the Smart Client team from patterns & practices

We are implementing the Smart Client Software Factory and tackling common problems that happens when you develop Smart Client applications using CAB
- How to handle multiple modules (UI; Services; Layout) and use a new IModuleLoaderService, IModuleEnumerator written by Brad Wilson
- How to manage authentication, authorization, impersonation and roles
- How to handle multiple layouts for a single shell
- How to design for multiple Workitems
- How to share domain model objects on the workitem using ComponentDependency
- How to write a new Workspace, CommandsAdapters and UI Elements
- How to work with Databinding an MVP
- How to write a reusable presenter
- How to unit tests CAB applications

… and more stuff coming like loading on demand modules with ClickOnce, Profile Catalog in a central location, etc.

BTW, so far working with the team was a great experience and of course the new patterns & practices space rocks for collaborative teams!

The first public drop of Service Factory is available on the workspace.

Download it and give feedback on the message boards! If you want to
keep updated with this project, here you have a list of Service Factory
bloggers:

• Don Smith
• Jason Hogg
• Tom Hollander
• Pablo Galiano
• Pablo Cibraro
• Christian Weyer
• Edward Bakker
• Beat Schwegler
• Matias Woloski

I will post more about this exciting project in the next weeks.

Last week Roberto Schatz, DPE Architect, and Ramiro Iturregui, ISV Developer, organized an
Architects meeting at Microsoft,
Argentina. Eugenio Pace, Product Manager for patterns & practices, and me,
talked about many exciting things including:

• The
  current status of the patterns
  & practices group. Patterns
  & practices won’t be an isolated group anymore; they will be part of a
  product team that will enroll Visual Studio Team System, p&p and MSF
  together.
• What
  patterns & practices been working on? In the UX area CAB was broadly
  adopted and now the SCBAT
  (Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit) is what the developer needs to
  create a Smart Client application. Including guidance right into Visual
  Studio 2005 using GAT (right-click
  -> Add Cab Module, etc), documentation, hands on labs, and two
  reference implementations showing how to manage offline scenarios,
  multiple modules, role-based UI, among other things.
• There
  is news also in the services area (everything that goes from the proxy to
  the database). The SVCBAT (Service BAT) now renamed to Web
  Service Software Factory, has been launched and the first
  drop is available. I encourage you to download it and give feedback
  about your needs in this space.

 Finally, we did some Q&A and gathered some feedback. There
were interesting questions about the past, the present and the future of p&p
deliverables. Thankfully, some attractive croissants entered the room because I
was starving already. J

Angel Lopez who was there and blogged
about it