Chris Weldon

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Chris Weldon is a Consultant for Improving Enterprises based out of the rural sourcing office in College Station, TX. A Fightin' Texas Aggie, Chris has 10 years of software development experience with expertise in PHP and .Net. As an avid agile enthusiast, Chris has lead teams of software developers using variants of Scrum and XP, encouraging the practice of unit testing with automation and continuous integration through tools such as (N)Ant and MSBuild on a variety of different build systems including Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Atlassian Bamboo, and countless others. He’s also played the roles of ScrumMaster, configuration manager, analyst, and product owner. Most recently, Chris has become an avid SharePoint technology enthusiast, developing unit tested SharePoint solutions for customers that leverage many parts of the .Net stack, especially WCF and WIF.

Sessions

IoC with PHP

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Day: 1
Room: Credera 2

PHP developers have not been known for their savvy use of design patterns. One such design pattern that's been woefully underutilized in PHP projects is that of Inversion of Control (IoC). However, the smart fellas over at Sensio Labs have finally built a Dependency Injection Container for our PHP projects.

For many PHP developers, IoC is rather foreign to them. Thus, I plan to show them the ropes by giving a brief overview of object-oriented patterns, what IoC is, and how a dependency injection container helps implement IoC. To drive the point home, I'll present a couple of common development problems with your typical monkey wrench challenge where IoC (and the Symfony DI container) helps solve the problem.

Unit Testing in SharePoint 2010

Level: 200
Track: None
Time: 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Day: 2
Room: Credera 2

With SharePoint 2007, it was notoriously difficult to write unit tests for your SharePoint logic. In SharePoint 2010, you'll find that not much has changed in the API and still leaves it difficult to to unit test logic dependent upon the SharePoint APIs. However, a recent free tool unveiled by Microsoft Research called Pex & Moles makes unit testing both possible and easy! In this session, I will briefly demonstrate how Pex & Moles works, then run through several samples of how to unit test logic that's dependent upon SharePoint 2010 logic.