Zi’s Blog

Please note: venue is different for this one!

Credit Suisse
One Cabot Square
London
E14 4QJ

Transport wise:
You can use the DLR or the tube (Jubilee Line towards
Stratford), Canary Wharf station.
Get off the tube at Jubilee exit to the right. Go up the escalators
and exit the station out the main glass domed exit.
Turn right out of the station. Walk past some clocks/bar/restaurants
Go up some steps, to the road level.
Turn left and follow road under a light rail bridge (DLR) You will
arrive at Cabot Square. Look up and look diagonally across the
park/fountain and see our building.
Ask at the ground floor reception for Leslie Muller and they will
direct you to the right floor.

Blurb:
Go With the Flow - An Introduction to Windows Workflow
Changing business requirements are the bugbear of the application
developer. The Windows Workflow Foundation is a new component of .NET
3.0 designed to ease the pain by providing an easier way of modelling
long-running business processes in code.
The engine provides in-built support for transactions, business rules,
and persistence. Extensions to Visual Studio provide a graphical
environment for modelling workflows. All of this can be incorporated
into your applications to make them more adaptable, reliable and
reduce your development time.
This talk is aimed at existing .NET developers who want to understand
Windows Workflow and have enough knowledge to decide whether it will
be useful in their projects. The talk introduces workflows, the
workflow engine and its design tools, looks at compensation and fault
handling, the rules engine, transactions and communicating with
external services.

Ben Lamb:
Ben Lamb has been writing business applications since the days of
Visual Basic 2.0. During the dot-com era he had a brief foray into web
development helping to write the UK’s first online hotel reservation
system, LeisureHunt, and developed geo-location services for a 3G
mobile phone company. Realising that .NET was his platform of choice
he now writes financial trading systems for investment banks in the
City with occasional diversions into Python, Open Source and other
interesting technologies.