Well as the more observant reader of Alex Jame's Blog might have noticed, I'm talking at the the Architect Camp 2007 this year... which should be...interesting - I haven't done any public speaking for a while now, but Alex James assures me I'll be fine ... be it on his head! ;o) ...

So I'm planning to talk about IoC (Inversion of Control) - one of my little pet loves... Some of the subjects I'm considering include:

• Coupling
  • How do we couple (Message, data, content etc.)
  • Metrics for the architect (Instability vs. Abstractness etc.)
• Dependency Injection
  • Constructor dependencies
  • Parameter dependencies
  • Law of Demeter
• Inversion of Control
  • Why bother?
    • Added flexibility and opportunity
    • Lowering the cost of change
  • ServiceLocators
    • Why they suck
  • Inversion of control containers
    • What's available (Castle, Spring, StructureMap etc.)
    • Autowiring
    • Services
    • Lifestyle vs Lifecycle
    • Configuration
    • AOP
    • Patterns
      • Decorators
      • Facilities
      • Arrays (simple contributor patterns etc.)

But that's only a small brain dump... we will see what actually gets in there.

For anyone who's thinking of attending this event, anything in particular you would like to have covered in a little more depth... or have you had any exposure to IoC at all?