Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
alt.net Archive
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Upcoming .NET events at Skills Matter: MassTransit, Future of Web development and Mono
Posted on September 14, 2009 | 1 CommentThe plan for the opensource .NET events at Skills Matter for the following three months is: Mike Hadlow: Enterprise integration with MassTransit, October 1st Dylan Beattie: The future of Web development: HTML 5 and ASP.NET MVC 2, November 2nd Toby Henderson: Introduction to Mono, December 3rd All these events are... -
Free presentation on Space Based Programming, September 2nd, London
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No CommentsI’m doing a free evening talk on space based programming on September 2nd at Skills Matter. Space-based architectures are an alternative to the traditional n-tier model for enterprise applications. Instead of a vertical tier partitioning, space based applications are partitioned horizontally into self-sufficient units. This leads to almost linear scalability... -
Building software that matters
Posted on August 3, 2009 | 3 CommentsWe had a fantastic discussion on delivering value with software yesterday at Alt.NET UK, centred around two proposed topics: “From concept to cash” and “Building software that matters”. Starting with questions on how do we get to cash quicker, how do we make sure that we’re building the most valuable... -
Links from the TDD discussion at Alt.NET UK
Posted on August 2, 2009 | No CommentsHere are the links to books and blog posts I mentioned today in the TDD discussion at Alt.NET Uk: A Set of Unit Testing Rules, article by Michael Feathers Red-Green-Refactor, article by Jim Shore Mocks Aren’t Stubs, article by Martin Fowler The Decline and Fall of Agile, article by Jim... -
TDD as if you meant it – revisited
Posted on August 2, 2009 | 10 CommentsYesterday at AltNetUK Openspace Coding Days we repeated the TDD as if you meant it exercise, originally organised by Keith Braithwaite at the Software Craftsmanship 2009 conference. This gave me a chance to once again go back to the problem, but from a completely different perspective.
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