Gojko Adzic

The 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, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. Click on individual events to register.

In addition to that, I’ll be running the 3 day Progressive .NET course again on November 11th-13th. The course helps students learn the most important emerging practices in the .NET community such as dependency injection, aspect oriented programming, MVC, object-relational mapping, unit and acceptance TDD and so on, with practical exercises using leading opensource .NET tools such as the Castle stack, NHibernate, MBUnit… For more information and to register, see http://skillsmatter.com/course/open-source-dot-net/opensource-dot-net-tools-crash-course.

I’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 of stateful, high-performance applications. In this presentation, I’ll talk about space based programming in general and demonstrate how to do that on the .NET platform.

The event is free but up-front registration is required. See http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/space-based-programming/ for more information and to register.

We 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 software possible and how do we measure progress, this open space discussion touched upon some very interesting ideas to improve software processes. Continue Reading »

Here 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 Shore (rescuing Scrum Teams).
• Original TDD as if you meant it exercise
• TDD as if you meant it exercise repeated at Alt.NET UK day one
• xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Gerard Meszaros, ISBN 0131495054, Addison Wesley 2007. Also see the accompanying web site.
• Exploring Requirements: Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg, ISBN 0932633137, Dorset House 1989

Many of these ideas are explored in more detail in my TDD in practice course, which will start from September at Skills Matter.

Yesterday 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. Continue Reading »