Posts Tagged ‘ALT.NET’

ALT.NET Workshop Day

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

This weekend ALT.NET organized a full day of workshops at Informator in Stockholm. About 30 to 40 participants could choose among workshops with topics such as Fluent NHibernate, JavaScript, CSS, Introduction to Python, Parallel Programming in VS2010 and Acceptance Test Driven Development with Selenium. After the workshops a bunch of us ended up at Vapiano (as usual!) having interesting discussions and generating great ideas over food and drinks. Ideas man Carl Kenne delivered, as expected, a few good ones: ALT.NET Incubator to help people get started on stuff, a 24 hour business camp for Open Source projects, and more that maybe will be revealed (i.e., remembered) in time on the ALT.NET Discussion Group. Someone wanted to invite professors from his university to come meet developers in the field, and so on so forth.

What I like about these participatory ALT.NET events is how easy they are to organize. One guy (new colleague at Avega Group Anders Jönsson this time) suggests that it’s time for another unconference, workshop day or whatever, on the discussion group and the thread catches on with people chiming in what kind of workshops they want or are able to run. Another guy (Tibi Covaci) suggests a venue (Informator), there’s some voting about a suitable date and suddenly all you have to do is show up wanting to learn!

If you haven’t been to any of the ALT.NET gatherings yet you should definitely come next time - it’s always fun and you always learn a lot! Meanwhile, be sure to partake in the discussions and why not post your own idea for the next event?


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Scandinavian Developer Conference

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Last week I gave a talk about ALT.NET at the new Scandinavian Developer Conference in Gothenburg. It was a really nice conference although a bit short for my taste - with only one day there’s less of a chance to find time to meet and interact with other speakers and participants. Things weren’t all bad in that department for my own sake though, as I enjoyed a nice speakers’ dinner the night before the conference where I had the opportunity to meet old and new acquaintances. I also found the time to get into a heated discussion with Ola Bini - he simply refused to realize why coding in Swedish is a Good Thing! ;-)

Among the highlights were Neal Ford’s two talks - his presentations are very beautiful in the same Presentation Zen style I aspire to. Kent Beck gave a calm and somewhat fun keynote about “Habits of Agility”. Although interesting in a way I would have preferred the original topic - “Responsive Design”.

Anyway, I haven’t had the time to polish my revised slides and make them available for download so you’ll just have to do with the slides from Øredev. They are about the same. You can find them under Talks.

Thanks IBS for a great time, I hope to see you next year!

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ALT.NET Unconference

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

It is time for the ALT.NET minded in Sweden (or at least in/near Stockholm) to convene for a second unconference. This time we will start with lightning talks and then continue with Open Space sessions. In the evening we will dine and perhaps drink a few beers at some restaurant in the vicinity. The event will take place at Alecta, Regeringsgatan 107, the Saturday of February 7 from 11 to 17.

Register at http://altdotnet.se/ (in Swedish) and feel free to submit a topic of a lightning talk. Among the topics so far:

  • Iphone development
  • BDD with MSpec (yours truly!)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Code rot
  • OpenTK
  • Should we stop using mocking frameworks?
  • Object databases for .NET

Hope to see you there!

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Slides, ALT.NET talk

Friday, November 21st, 2008

As promised I have now made the slides for my ALT.NET talk available for download. You can find them under “Talks” in the menu. I got some great feedback; 40 green votes, 10 yellow votes and no red votes (maybe this means I should have been more controversial). Even though Ayende and Scott Bellware did their best to interrupt me, I managed to finish on time - something that seems to have been a big problem for many speakers this year.

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ALT.NET Seminar at Øredev

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I will be giving a seminar about ALT.NET, “ALT.NET - Are You Ready for the Red Pill?”, at Øredev this Thursday. It is the first seminar on the ALT.NET track, followed by sessions with some of the big ALT.NET names: Ayende, Scott Bellware and Glenn Block. Looks like a very interesting track and I will certainly be there all day long. If you are going to Øredev you should come.

I will be posting the talk and some resources here later this week.

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