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13 Mar

NYC CodeCamp Winter 2010: Session Evaluation Process, Results, and Conclusions

Well, the event evaluation forms for last weekend’s NYC CodeCamp are IN and have been tallied.  And the winner is…
Just kidding.  There is no winner because this year we decided to do a few things differently than in years past:

Eval forms didn’t contain numeric scoring for pre-defined categories (e.g., “Speaker was knowledgable about their topic”, [...]

27 Jan

I’ll be speaking at Philly ALT.NET on Domain Driven Design

Next Thursday evening (2/4/2010) from 6:00pm-9:00pm I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia Alt.NET user group on real-world Domain Driven Design implementation patterns in .NET.
The full title of the session is going to be “Lessons from the Trenches: Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for DDD in .NET” and the overview synopsis will be:
In this session, we’ll take a [...]

26 Jan

My Interview on the Connected Show podcast is Released!

Episode 23 of the Connected Show podcast has been released!  In this episode, host Peter Laudati interviews Andrew Brust about what he saw at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and then proceeds to interview none other than yours-truly about some of the work that myself and others have been doing with the Agile Firestarter [...]

18 Jan

Wanted: Virtual Alt.Net Community Contributors, Organizers, and Presenters

This is a public call for greater community participation in the Virtual Alt.Net online community for 2010 and beyond.
What is Virtual Alt.Net?
Virtual Alt.Net is an online community that met weekly over the past year or so utilizing Live Meeting as a platform for exposing as many people as possible to software development concepts and [...]

25 Nov

Central NJ Agile Firestarter is Coming!

For those of you who missed out on the first NYC Agile Firestarter that the NY ALT.NET User Group and the NY .NET User Group jointly organized in June of 2009, I just wanted to announce that there is a ‘sister’ event coming soon to the Central NJ Area: The Central NJ .NET Agile Firestarter!  [...]

04 Oct

ASP.NET MVC Firestarter: That’s A Wrap!

As some of you may be aware, yesterday (Saturday 10/3/2009) the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter Event was held here in NYC.  This event, hosted and organized by Microsoft, was a free day-long event intended to help .NET WebForms developers begin to come up-to-speed on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework.  As mentioned on this blog prior, I [...]

21 Aug

DX_SourceOutliner v2 Design Concepts

In a past post, I mentioned that I am in the process of declaring ‘Technical Bankruptcy’ on my DX_SourceOutliner project.  I wanted to share some of my thoughts on what’s wrong with the present approach to the design and what new ideas I have to try to address the problems.  As mentioned in my prior [...]

07 Aug

DX_SourceOutliner vNext: ‘Technical Bankruptcy’ and ‘Write One to Throw Away’

Anyone who has done any appreciative work in software engineering is familiar with one of the most challenging aspects of Software Development: the realization that software engineering isn’t fundamentally really about building so much as it is about discovering.  We are taught for long periods in our careers (either implicitly through the language we use [...]

25 Jul

DX_SourceOutliner Still in need of Some Polishing

It seems there’s no substitute for using a piece of software in actual production to really surface bugs and usability issues
This isn’t too surprising to anyone who has been doing software development for any amount of time, but it still amazes me that no matter how comprehensive you think your testing is, there’s [...]

03 Jun

Announcing the Agile Firestarter 2009 Event 6/27/2009 in NYC!

I know many are too remote from the NYC metro area to attend this event, but all day Saturday 6/27 some of us organizers in the local .NET community down here are holding an event we are calling the ‘Agile Firestarter’ for .NET developers interested in learning more about Agile software development techniques and practices.
The [...]

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