Second place for the Internal RAD Race 2006

Published Sun, Jan 22 2006 7:53 PM
As your could read on Mike Blaaks blog, LogicaCMG organized the Internal RAD Race 2006 last weekend.
It’s a game between 10-12 teams. Each team exists of 2 persons and basically are using Oracle, Java or Microsoft software.
The assignment for the teams is known on the day we begin but comes always near to a real-life business case.

In short: This year we had to build a webapplication for licenseplate registration in the EU.

Teams are allowed to use all software, tools and libraries you can think of, but during the Race no Internet access is allowed (USB keys are not allowed also)

Fijsjan Heijkoop and I were team 7 and used the following toolset: 

- VS.NET 2005 
- SQL Server 2000 (2005 was way too slow for a RAD race :-( ) 
- NHibernate 1.0 
- MyGeneration Code templates (custom build) 
- And our own code libraries specially build for this RAD Race.  

With 6 weeks preperation in our spare time (and some days of LogicaCMG) we took the 2nd place !
(after an Oracle team, but before all Java & other Microsoft teams)

 It was really fun (and exhaustive. )

Hope we can kick Oracles ass next year...;-)

 

 

 

by Pascal Naber

Comments

# Erwyn van der Meer said on Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:17 PM

Congratulations on winning second place!

# Patrick Wellink said on Monday, January 23, 2006 12:12 AM

Guys....

very good, but next year MS should be number one.

Btw i am very curious what you guys used MyGeneration for ?

# Pascal Naber said on Monday, January 23, 2006 4:29 AM

We used MyGeneration with 3 templates, (we could only use 2 templates in the race)

We used a NHibernate template (http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/TemplateLibrary/Archive/?guid=1b04fa85-da91-4b42-9e39-58ef31dcb8ec
) but soon there were shortcomings.
The most important thing we added is nullable types.

We made the plumbing to connect Windows forms and ASP.NET 2.0 object datasources to the Domain Model generated with this plumbing.

Finally we made custom templates in MyGeneration to generate CRUD screens for ASP.NET 2.0 & Windows Forms.
We can generate ASP.NET for 100% and generate Windows forms for at least 80% (the only manual thing needed here was to drag the controls from the datasource window to the screen, we even generated the xml for the datasource so we immediately had the correct control to bind to)

# Dennis van der Stelt said on Monday, January 23, 2006 5:27 AM

Pascal & Fijsjan, congrats to both!

Question, if you had to build a webapp, can Oracle people do that as well?!?!?! I thought they could only build winform apps. And if so, why did you not build a winform app?! :)

Regards,
Dennis

# Chi Wai Man said on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:30 PM

good job! Congratulations man:)

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