--- title: "Dave Platt In Israel - CAB Fans Prepare yourself" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/23/dave-platt-in-israel-cab-fans-prepare-yourself.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/23/dave-platt-in-israel-cab-fans-prepare-yourself.html" published: "2007-10-23T02:09:01" updated: "2007-10-23T02:09:01" tags: [".NET", ".Net 2.0", "C#", "General Software Devel..."] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Dave Platt just pinged me to tell me that he'll be doing a 4 day Composite Application Block Workshop over at Idag in Israel . Dave is seriously one of the funniest and most knowledgeable speakers I've met (got to meet…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Dave Platt In Israel - CAB Fans Prepare yourself By Roy Osherove October 23, 2007 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [C#](https://osherove.com/blog/category/c), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel) **Historical article** · Originally published October 23, 2007; technical details may be outdated. ![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/p.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_DavePlattInIsraelCABFansPrepareyourself_8E96_image_thumb.png) Dave Platt just pinged me to tell me that he'll be doing a [4 day Composite Application Block Workshop](http://www.rollthunder.com/DotNetTraining/CABPublicSyllabus.htm) over at [Idag in Israel](http://www.idag.co.il/About/HotNews200709.htm). Dave is seriously one of the funniest and most knowledgeable speakers I've met (got to meet him a couple of years back when he was Speaking at TechEd Europe). He wanted me to help pass on the word about his course, and since I know this guy to be pretty darn good at what he does, I have no problem saying that this should be an interesting course to go to (if you can spring out your wallet, that it..) Tell them Roy Sent you. Oh, you should be interested in a couple of books he's written:

Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory (Pro-Best Practices)


Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It

While you're at it, here are a couple of good resources to learn about the Composite UI application block and the next version named "Acropolis": You should check the Acropolis team blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/acropolis/default.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/acropolis/default.aspx) and Glen Block’s blog at [http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/](http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/) [ ](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735624143/iserializable-20) ## More in .NET [All posts in .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net) - Nov 14, 2007 ### [Cool demo of Visual Web GUI](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/14/cool-demo-of-visual-web-gui.html) - Oct 25, 2007 ### [What's IoC good for, Really?](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/25/whats-ioc-good-for-really.html) - Oct 21, 2007 ### [The ALT.NET Mailing list is a great place to have a conversation](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/21/the-altnet-mailing-list-is-a-great-place-to-have-a-conversat.html) - Oct 8, 2007 ### [ALT.NET - Rule of Tool Composition](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/8/altnet-rule-of-tool-composition.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/