Gojko Adzic

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 with your own facilities, remoting and implementing AOP-style functionality.

The event is free to attend, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. for more information and to register click here.

For those of you who could not make it to Skills Matter last week, here is the video of my presentation about Script# (ScriptSharp). Script# is a free .NET tool that converts C# into JavaScript, allowing us to use a lot of existing C# tool support to write and manage large JavaScript code bases easier. This presentation introduces Script#, explains when and how to use it and discusses some common pitfalls with this tool.

Here are some related links:

• Powerpoint slides from the talk
• Source code for the examples used in the talk
• Main Script# Web site (docs and download)
• ExtSharp - ExtJS in Script#
• JQuerySharp - JQuery in Script#

This might be a bit on a short notice, but I’m doing a talk tonight on script# at skills matter. script# converts c# code into javascript and is sort of a .net response to the google web toolkit. If this sounds
interesting and you are in london, pop by skills matter offices at 6:30 tonight.

There might be still time to register if you want to come down (registration is free, but mandatory for capacity planning).

register here

Here is the video from my talk on Agile Acceptance Testing this week at Skills Matter. The talk is completely non-technical, focusing on how this practice helps us communicate better and explaining how it fits into the wider development process. You can download the slides from here.

I have presented this talk to a lot of companies over the last year and it is the basis for my upcoming book Agile Acceptance Testing: Closing the communication gap in software projects. If this sounds interesting, subscribe to my rss feed to get notified when the book comes out.

The idea of the example-writing workshop to support acceptance testing seems to cause a lot of confusion and misunderstanding, at least judging from my two most recent talks and the questions during the discussion at the second Alt.NET UK conference. A lot of people seem to somehow contrast that to iterative development and mistake the workshop for big design up-front, expecting that it will increase the feedback loop. To resolve the misunderstanding, here is an example of how the workshop (and acceptance testing) fits into an agile process to shorten the feedback loop and improve iterative development. Continue Reading »