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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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Those of you who follow my work either on this blog, in screencasts, or in code demo talks know that I am a huge believer in the improvements in efficiency that (the right!) tools can provide. You would also know that I am a big fan of the CodeRush and Refactor! Pro tools from Developer [...]
I just gave a talk at last week’s ALT.NET NYC user group introducing Domain Driven Design (DDD) as a pattern language and included in there was a slide expressing my opinion “Once: its a fluke, twice: its a coincidence, three times: its a pattern” intended to posit the idea that patterns evolve from our observations [...]
A number of people periodically request an official bio from me for inclusion in speaking engagement literature, use in RFP responses, etc. so I have finally just decided that this page will be the one place that I endeavor to keep this text as 100% current as I can. So, without further ado, here it [...]
