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For those who didn’t manage to attend the Agile Firestarter 2009 Event this past Saturday in NYC (details here), the videos from the first two sessions have now been posted to Vimeo for viewing at the following URLs…
Introduction To Agile (with yours-truly presenting)
Agile Estimation (with Steve Forte presenting)
Over the coming weeks, look for more videos [...]
A recurring theme that keeps cropping up in various forums of discussion is the question…
What is ALT.NET?
Heck, I even blogged a little about it back in September of 2008 when I experienced my first (not the first I’m sure, just my first) explosion of discussion about it on the ALT.NET Yahoo discussion group.
Personally, I’m torn [...]
This is a transcript I excerpted from a discussion session video that I just watched where Bob Martin addressed the Chicago ALT.NET user group where he is describing the rationale behind TDD in the context of understanding how truly brittle our work products really are.
This is a short read, but everyone is encouraged to think [...]
If you either attended the January 2009 CodeCamp event in NYC or wanted to and were scared away by the impending weather doom (which never materialized) or were simply too remote to consider the trip, the entire collection of everyone’s presentation materials was just posted last evening to the NYC CodeCamp Site for download.
If you’re [...]
As a follow-up to my Test-Driven Development presentation at the 2009 NYC CodeCamp last weekend, I wanted to let everyone interested know that I have now posted the screencast recordings for the session for download by anyone interested.
Several Formats
As anyone who was there will know, we got somewhat sidetracked in the presentation by discussions about [...]
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at the NYC CodeCamp this morning! Even though I couldn’t get through my entire presentation/demo, the questions that came up made the digressions worthwhile for all, I hope.
As promised, here are the resources that made up the presentation materials…
Powerpoint 2003-format of the slidedeck…
NYC_CodeCamp_2009_TDD_Presentation_PowerPoint.zip
Code Download (showing what would have [...]
As 2008 comes to an end and 2009 starts to ramp up, I thought it might be interesting (for me at least!) to look back at some of the important events and changes in 2008 that have most impacted my professional life as a software developer.
The Year of Community
If I had to sum-up what 2008 [...]
The semi-confirmed schedule for the 2009 NYC CodeCamp has just been published at http://nyc.codecamp.us/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/12/31/code-camp-session-schedule.aspx. Even if the schedule changes ever-so-slightly between now and 1/10/2009, the actual sessions are pretty much locked-in at this point so the schedule gives a pretty good sense of the topics that will be covered and who’s covering them (myself included).
Register [...]
I am pleased to announce that I have just been confirmed as one of the speakers @ the upcoming NYC CodeCamp on 1/10/2009. Apparently my voluminous presentation abstract didn’t scare them away from me .
I’ll be speaking @ 9:15am on TDD (surprise~!) where I will be giving a live-demo from empty .cs file to the [...]
Just wanted to point out that the videos for the most-recent ALT.NET NYC meeting have just been posted for viewing. In this meeting we had the benefit of a guest appearance by the famous weary traveler Oren Eini, better known as Ayende Rahien, the creator of RhinoMocks, and contributor to various well-known OSS projects like [...]
