I'm finally getting the nerve to blog again. This is probably due to how immersed in work I have been lately. The work I'm doing now is not the same old contract stuff - it's new and therefore exciting. Part of the challenge is seeing how Agile, Scrum and XP play a role in DDD, Messaging Architectures etc.
The tipping point was ALT.NET Seattle. My head is now sufficiently filled to nearly overflowing with information. Not putting "pen to paper" would be a great loss to me. If this helps others along the way then great! But the company at ALT.NET Seattle eclipses most of what I will say. I'll have to update my blog roll soon.
The Conference
The format was open spaces. This was a new experience for me. I was very pleased with it. The participation is something that is missing from the traditional format. There was a lot of video taken. David Laribee posted some as did Jeffery Palermo.
I had a good chat with Scott Hanselman and Martin Fowler in between sessions about being a polyglot programmer. Scott was making the point that "if you want to learn French you start reading books written in French" to draw a parallel of learning a new programming language. Unfortunately the real analogy in the ALT.Net space for some things such as NHibernate and the Castle implementation of Active Record which does your XML mapping via attributes, the analogy is more along the lines of "if you want to learn Rumantsch you should read books written in Rumantsch". I'm not sure if you'll find one in your library. The full discussion is on David Laribee's blog linked above.
At other points I had discussed using GIT instead of SVN, the intricacies of moving to message based architecture, new things coming out of Microsoft Research like Spec# and many other things. I'll leave these things for posts in the very near future. There were many really smart part people there and I was very happy to be a part of the event.
A special thanks goes out to Scott Bellware for pushing this forward from day one of the idea of an "ALT.NET"
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