AltNetUK Conference

The ALT.NET Community on Alternative .NET Tools

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:07:37 +0100

The ALT.NET Community on Alternative .NET Tools: EVENT DETAILS Who: Gojko Adzic & other members of the ALT.NET Community What: The ALT.NET Community on Alternative .NET Tools Where:Skills Matter, London When: 31st July 2008 Starts at 18:30 TO…

And as predicted....

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:28:14 +0100

And as predicted....: The Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast

Alt.Net UK September

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:10:40 +0100

Alt.Net UK September: We are pleased to announce that the Alt.Net UK Conference will be returning in September, and that there will be room for more attendees this time! The plan is host the event at Conway Hall in…

Alt.Net UK Summer Conference Dates Announced

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:10:40 +0100

Alt.Net UK Summer Conference Dates Announced: We are pleased to announce that the Alt.Net UK Conference will be returning in September, and that there will be room for more attendees this time! The plan is host the event at Conway Hall in…

Alt.net London Beers #2 - 17th of June 2008

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:20:09 +0100

Alt.net London Beers #2 - 17th of June 2008: Alt.net London Beers #2 - 17th of June 2008 It’s this time of the month again, and we continue with the tradition of organizing alt.net beers events monthly. As usual, it’s casual, it’s about chit…

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Wed, 28 May 2008 18:56:19 +0100

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Developer Day Scotland

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:24:04 +0100

Developer Day Scotland: Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site….

ALT.NET Geek Code

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:29:20 +0100

ALT.NET Geek Code: Scott Hanselman was tweeting about this tonight and has just posted about Alt.Net Geek Code. Here is mine: IOC(CW):MOC(RM):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):ORM(SS):ORM(L2S):XPP(++):DDD(T+) By…

Alt.net London Beers - 15th May - 6pm

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:51:46 +0100

Alt.net London Beers - 15th May - 6pm: SerialSeb, one of the attendees at Alt.Net.UK conference earlier in the year, is arranging a few drinks in a London bar (to be announced via upcoming link) as a chance to catch up, meet and have an…

Announcing the Alt.net London Beers event

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:43:24 +0100

Announcing the Alt.net London Beers event: Many people are keen on continuing the discussion that was started by the alt.net conference. While the altdotnet-discuss yahoogroups mailing list has been very active, I feel that much more can be…

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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:10:23 +0100

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Geek Dinner with Ayenda - London, Tuesday, 19th Feb, 19:00

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:02:51 +0000

Geek Dinner with Ayenda - London, Tuesday, 19th Feb, 19:00: Ayende (creator of Rhino Mocks) is coming to London for a few days and Howard van Rooijen has organised a geek dinner. Details on his Ayende’s blog: Geek Dinner at London, Tuesday, 19th Feb, 19:00 Sadly, I don’t think I will be able to attend but if your in the area - pop in have and have a chat. Technorati Tags: altnetuk

TypeMock - Erste Schritte

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:02:03 +0000

TypeMock - Erste Schritte: Aufgrund der Diskussionen während der ALT.NET UK Konferenz habe ich beschlossen mir TypeMock mal genauer anzuschauen. Vor allem der Support für Method Chaining interessiert mich. Aber immer der Reihe nach… TypeMock ist ein kommerzielles Mock Framework. Es ist in drei Varianten verfügbar: Community, Professional und Enterprise (siehe Gegenüberstellung der Features). TypeMock verwendet das Profiler API um Aufrufe von Methoden abzufangen. Bisher arbeite ich mit Rhino.Mocks das für diesen Zweck Ca

ALT.NET DE Mailingliste gestartet

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:56:27 +0000

ALT.NET DE Mailingliste gestartet: ALT.NET DE Mailingliste gestartet February 15th, 2008 Ich habe soeben hier http://groups.google.com/group/altnetde/ eine deutsche ALT.NET Mailingliste gestartet. Würde mich freuen dort den ein oder anderen ALT.NETer wiederzutreffen. Technorati-Tags: ALT.NET,altnetuk,altnetde Tags: ALT.NET, altnetde, altnetuk Posted in .NET, ALT.NET, altnetuk | No Comments »

ALT.NET UK Unconference

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:22:02 +0000

ALT.NET UK Unconference: Two weeks ago I attended a.NET conference in London. The conference was organised by “the community”, and was an an open spaces conference. … [667 words]

Another declarative programming language to try to test

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:15:38 +0000

Another declarative programming language to try to test: At the Alt.NET UK conference there was a good deal of discussion about tactics to test declarative languages such as XAML in WPF applications. Well it seems we have another one coming out of the Oslo project - ‘D’. Looks like there is no escape, testing of declarative languages is going to be a ripe area to develop tools and techniques.

Developer Testing - Discussion at ALT.NET UK

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:35:50 +0000

Developer Testing - Discussion at ALT.NET UK: I thought I’d blog about some of the topics that were discussed at ALT.NET UK, or more correctly my views on those topics. Styles Of Testing I’ve blogged about the fact that I tend not to use interaction testing much. I find interaction testing can result in overspecified software and sometimes in tests that are hard to read. To be fair some of this could be countered by better use of mocking, for example diffrentiating between mocks and stubs (or Stubs and Expecations if thats the terminology

Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:35:24 +0000

Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development: One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here. Now I have to confess to being a classicist. I tried being a mockist, but I gave it up because of the dangers of over-specified software. Now I tend to favor test doubles for the areas that are difficult to get under test otherwise as per Michael Feathers. We are also much…

BDD - I think I'm finally getting some understanding

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:55:41 +0000

BDD - I think I'm finally getting some understanding: Nick Hines from Thoughtworks led a really good session on BDD at ALT.NET UK. The session clarified a lot of things for me, though as always after a bit of thought I am left with plenty more questions so I thought a blog entry was in order. What Is BDD My initial experience with BDD was Dave Astels doing a videocast about it. Better TDD and focussing on design were the name of the game. This made sense but when I started looking into it more I got a bit lost. The documentation seems to focus on

alt.net - Some comments and ideas

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:32 +0000

alt.net - Some comments and ideas: I’ve been holding back from commenting as there’s been a lot happening and I probably need a few more days before my mind is set, both on the technicalities we discussed, on the process, and on the ideas. For today I’ll focus on the alt.net movement, and on the conference. I’l leave the technical stuff for later. Communities, user groups and is the existing structure working for alt.net There’s been strong suggestions that user groups are enough to cover the scope of alt.net. The concepts behi