I’ve just come back to London after giving a 4 hour seminar on Evolve, at Charles University in Prague. It went really well, and we were able to cover both the basics and some advanced subjects such as state machines and code generation.

The slides I used are here, although you will need MS Powerpoint to view them correctly (doesn’t work fully in OpenOffice for some reason):

• An architectural approach to extensible applications
• Advanced Topics

Thanks to the Uni for hosting this, and to Tomas and Petr for the kind invitation to speak. Several Netbeans engineers were able to attend; the questions they asked were very insightful, particularly those comparing Evolve strata to changesets in distributed version control.

Thanks also to Jaroslav Tulach, the Netbeans architect, for the discussions around Evolve and general software engineering over beers!