I'm helping organize an Open Coffee in Delft the 4th of September together with dotNed, the dutch .Net usergroup. The event is hosted by QDelft and will start at around 5 o clock.

All .Net devs (or people interested in talking to these geeks) are welcome, so just come over, have a drink and exchange ideas with fellow developers!

For more information visit the dotNed site over here.

Many tools (especially on the Microsoft platform) make it easy to start your new project by just dragging and dropping some controls on a window. Just add some logic to event handlers in the window-class that represents that window and be done with it. Most programmers who have done this a few times will know that the result will probably an unmaintainable and untestable mess. UI patterns solve this problem by splitting up your application in different parts, each with their own responsibilities. The first part of this series will look at how different UI patterns divide responsibilities between their components

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I have never met anyone who could explain the differences between all the Presentation  patterns to me, but new ones seem to spring up almost daily. The last time I checked I found

Model View Controller, Model View Presenter, Document View, Supervising Controller, Passive View, Front Controller, Page Controller, Humble View, Humble Dialog, Model View Viewmodel, Presentation Model and Application Model,

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