Last night I had the pleasure of presenting ASP.NET Dynamic Data to the Richmond Software Craftmanship Group. Dynamic Data is a rich scaffolding framework that instantly web enables a database. As you might expect, it creates a database centric website. That was my first demo. My second demo showed how a Dynamic Data website can be customized and extended to become more user centric, perhaps following the user’s normal workflow. The slides and demo projects can be downloaded from my blog. The group discussedsome useful ways to apply Dynamic Data, such as simple reporting site, as a temporary application or perhaps to demonstrate a database.

Recently I gave a teaching demonstration at a local community college. This was part of the process of becoming an adjunct instructor/professor. If all goes well, I’ll start as early as the coming summer semester. I’m not sure what I’ll be teaching yet, most likely an established, introductory computer science class. Some of these classes teach the use of common applications like spreadsheets and word processing. By the end of the semester the students are doing some advanced stuff. Or I may teach an introductory programming class – using java of course. After a little experience, I will propose some .NET classes, either C# or ASP.NET. I’m excited to have the opportunity, wish me luck. I knew all those graduate CS classes would come in handy.

Here’s a link to the lecture I demonstrated: Object Oriented Programming – Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism.