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Welcome!
This group is based in Fresno and surrounding
areas. The purpose of the group is to be a
resource for developers, designers, architects, and managers with a
specific interest in Microsoft .NET Technologies. Presentations will be
given by world-class speakers from Microsoft, from leader software
companies, and also, by the group's own members.
We meet every second Thursday of every month (exceptionally on the 3rd Thursday
of February), at the California State
University, Fresno (Business Center, room 192). On
non-sponsored meetings attendees are asked to contribute with $5 to cover pizza
and drinks. If you plan to attend
please send an email to
rsvp@centralcaldotnet.com.
This will help us choose a room according to the attendance.
(Click
Here for a detailed map )
More
information about the meetings...
6:00-6:30:
Pizza, drinks, networking
6:30-6:45: Introductions, announcements
6:45-8:45: Presentation
8:45-9:00: Raffles
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July/08/2010 |
Brad Irby
(Alobria Systems)
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Best Practices in Software Re-engineering
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This presentation will focus on Best Practices in Software Re-engineering, and will briefly review the business case for re-engineering as opposed to rebuilding. It will include an in depth discussion of technical best practices for quality injection and re-engineering of an existing system.
Re-engineering an existing system is more cost effective than a complete rewrite for several reasons. Some estimates say a 30% savings can be realized over the cost of building the system from scratch. However, re-engineering a system to update the architecture and inject current testing and structure methodologies requires a different approach. The new infrastructure must be put in place in such a way that the system is continually available and no new bugs are introduced in the process, while allowing both old and new code to benefit from the updated architecture.
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Brad Irby is the President and CTO of Alobria Systems, a software development firm that builds Enterprise Microsoft Solutions. Brad has been a developer since 1989, and specializes in re-engineering of large enterprise systems. You can find his personal bio on LinkedIn here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradirby
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