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And as predicted....
12 July 08 09:49 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

The Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast

Filed under: altnetuk, Alt.net

Developer Day Scotland
11 May 08 10:11 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site . There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation...

Filed under: VSTS, Events, DDD, Extreme Programming Club, altnetuk

Another declarative programming language to try to test
07 February 08 09:39 AM | Richard | with no comments

At the Alt.NET UK conference there was a good deal of discussion about tactics to test declarative languages such as XAML in WPF applications. Well it seems we have another one coming out of the Oslo project - ' D '. Looks like there is no escape...

Filed under: Testing, BizTalk, altnetuk

Oh to be a tester....
03 February 08 09:34 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

Whilst at the Alt.net conference it was pointed out that I have a different view of the role of a tester in a software development team to many other people. It seems a tester, to many people, is viewed as a person who follows manual test scripts and...

Filed under: Testing, Agile, altnetuk

First Alt.Net.UK Conference thoughts
02 February 08 08:19 PM | Richard | with no comments

I am sitting on the train heading north. After deciding trying to stream the England/Wales match from iPlayer on the train WiFi was probably not a good idea, especially after just reading the score, I though I should write about the Alt.Net UK Conference...

Filed under: Agile, Events, altnetuk