Archive for October, 2008

  • In order to coordinate organising .NET events better with other community happenings, I’ve started a group calendar on NING for UK .NET Events and I’m working with other community organisers on getting their events into the calendar as well. You can view and edit the group calendar on http://ukdotnet.ning.com or...

    Announcing UK.NET Events

    In order to coordinate organising .NET events better with other community happenings, I’ve started a group calendar on NING for UK .NET Events and I’m working with other community organisers on getting their events into the calendar as well. You can view and edit the group calendar on http://ukdotnet.ning.com or...

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  • Alt.NET beers meeting continues next week at the Blue Posts pub in Kingly Street in London. This time, the event is planned as an informal mini conference where participants are first going to select a topic and then organise a workshop. See you there! For more information about the location...

    Alt.NET beers #3 on Tuesday!

    Alt.NET beers meeting continues next week at the Blue Posts pub in Kingly Street in London. This time, the event is planned as an informal mini conference where participants are first going to select a topic and then organise a workshop. See you there! For more information about the location...

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  • Some colleagues and I came up with a new word to be added to the software development dictionary last week: molyporphism (n): polymorphism done badly.

    Introducing molyporphism

    Some colleagues and I came up with a new word to be added to the software development dictionary last week: molyporphism (n): polymorphism done badly.

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  • I attended a Domain Driven Design course on Monday at Skills Matter offices. Eric Evans led the course and put forward a very interesting theory that the quality of a software system is proportional to the skills of the second worst programmer.

    Beware of the second worst programmer

    I attended a Domain Driven Design course on Monday at Skills Matter offices. Eric Evans led the course and put forward a very interesting theory that the quality of a software system is proportional to the skills of the second worst programmer.

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  • Mike Hadlow and I will be doing a free talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor on October 23rd in London, at Skills Matter. We’ll cover basics of dependency injection, how to use that pattern with Castle Windsor and then move on to some more advanced themes like extending Windsor...

    Learn to use Castle Windsor: London October 23rd

    Mike Hadlow and I will be doing a free talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor on October 23rd in London, at Skills Matter. We’ll cover basics of dependency injection, how to use that pattern with Castle Windsor and then move on to some more advanced themes like extending Windsor...

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