11 Aug
Earlier this year I I was lucky enough to have been invited to speak at last weekend’s St. Louis Day of .NET conference in (you guessed it!) St. Louis, Missouri . Held in the Ameristar Resort and Casino, this 2-day event drew nearly 800 attendees from the surrounding Midwest region.
From what I was told, apparently [...]
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09 Jul
On Saturday June 25th, 2011 I had the pleasure of speaking at my first Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) event. This is the third year that this event has been held and by all accounts it has grown ever-larger each subsequent year. This year’s event had over 230+ attendees and seemed a great success (seen [...]
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26 Nov
Code Camp Wrap Up
Three weeks ago (on November 6th, 2010), I had the good fortune of being selected to deliver two talks at the recent Fairfield Westchester Code Camp (FWCC) in Stamford, Connecticut. Even though its about equidistant from my house as the Philadelphia Code Camp, I’ve not prior considered participating in FWCC because it [...]
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15 Oct
This post is a bit overdue, slightly out of chronological order, and will probably have me rambling a bit too much but I’ve been busy lately – so sue me
Earlier this year I was was asked if I wanted to participate in delivering the Entity Framework Firestarter event here in NYC. I [...]
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13 Oct
This past weekend I had the pleasure of having been invited to speak at the Autumn Edition of the Philadelphia CodeCamp. Brian Donohue, who organizes the Philadelphia ALT.NET User Group asked me to come and deliver one of my talks for the ALT.NET track. This continues a nice (and growing) tradition of the NYC-area events [...]
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21 Jul
I last took a close look at NDepend over 18 months ago back in December of 2008 in this blog post. At that time, I spent some time looking at some of its higher-level features and shared some of my impressions of the tool. Now, some time later I’ve returned to the tool and I [...]
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13 Mar
Well, the event evaluation forms for last weekend’s NYC CodeCamp are IN and have been tallied. And the winner is…
Just kidding. There is no winner because this year we decided to do a few things differently than in years past:
Eval forms didn’t contain numeric scoring for pre-defined categories (e.g., “Speaker was knowledgable about their topic”, [...]
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30 Jan
Thanks to a code contribution from an adopter of NDbUnit, I’m happy to announce that NDbUnit v1.6 is now released and available for download from the Google Code downloads page with support for Oracle 8i and later.
Oracle support has been on the project’s roadmap for some time now and its great to be able to [...]
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09 Jan
in a recent request for the Proteus Project, a user asked about defining test-related settings in external .config files to control connection strings settings, the location(s) of support files like the serialized dataset xml data files and the dataset xsd schema files, and possibly other things. While it might be of value to ‘formalize’ this [...]
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25 Nov
For those of you who missed out on the first NYC Agile Firestarter that the NY ALT.NET User Group and the NY .NET User Group jointly organized in June of 2009, I just wanted to announce that there is a ‘sister’ event coming soon to the Central NJ Area: The Central NJ .NET Agile Firestarter! [...]
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