A Retrospective look at the PRIO09 Conference
This year’s PRIO took place in Munich and was entitled with the rather general term “UI”, which seemed more than convenient for me, being a UI Developer ever since I wrote my first homepage back in 1997. Taking a look at the program for day one , I knew right away that I wouldn’t get far by following one of the predefined tracks. On the other side, it contained a whole Silverlight track, which I have no use for and could thus discard without further consideration (Same goes for the partner sessions). As a result I hopped between practical and conceptual talks, with a result that was way above my expectations. To mention the day’s hightlights : Mr. Urs Enzler shed some light on how he and his folks implement the single responsibility paradigm in combination with established patterns like M-V-VM, a both informative and important issue. After that I went (or rather stayed) to see and hear Bernd Marquardt, who brilliantly explained what’s currently in stock for writing Multi-threaded UIs