Torkel Ödegaard

Torkel Ödegaard is very passionate software developer who always strive to learn something new and improve.

He spends his time consulting as a .NET developer, architect and coach. Torkel places a lot of his focus on how to deal with complexity in software and how to write maintainable code. This focus has led him down the path of test driven development, domain driven design and in later years CQRS.

Torkel has previously presented at conferences and events on topics like NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, SOLID principles, CQRS and Convention over Configuration.

Session

Build Real-Time Apps with Backbone.js and SignalR

Rich web applications often end up with tangled piles of jQuery selectors, callbacks and html riddled with hidden fields and data attributes. Backbone.js can help in providing a more structured approach for client-side development.

In this session we will build a web application using ASP.NET MVC on the server and Backbone.js on the client. We will also use a new framework called SignalR to push data from the server to the client to provide real time notifications and view updates.