Vancouver Tech Fest GIT Presentation

I did a presentation on GIT for Agility at Vancouver Tech Fest today. Here are the slides for those who wanted them! Let me know if you want more info.

http://drop.io/vantechfest

Here are some links to good GIT sites:

Linus Torvalds on GIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
GIT magic book: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/book.html
MSysGIT: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
GIT Extensions project for VS: http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/

I'm glad people liked the presentation. The organizers will post the actual screen capture and audio later.

ALT.NET Vancouver is on!

We will have a FREE open spaces event held at the 500 Plaza Hotel (Cambie and 12th) starting at 5:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 5th! Participants will include:

Eric Evans
Michael Feathers
and possibly Martin Fowler and others!

This is your chance to participate in an interactive setting with a lot of the presenters from Agile Vancouver.

Please go and sign up at altnetvancouver.ning.com. Please message Stefan Moser or Scott Muc through that site regarding any details.

Books at Agile Vancouvre Conference

Since some people couldn't get the time off work or couldn't afford to attend the conference, they won't be able to get the great discount we have on some books that we have at 20% off the cover price. Please look them up online for the price and subtract 20%. We also include the tax in that price. Let me know through twitter:

Refactoring: Ruby Edition Jay Fields / Shane Harvie / Martin Fowler / Kent Beck
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D./Linda Rising Ph.D.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 3E Martin Fowler
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck / Tom Poppendieck
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Martin Fowler
Planning Extreme Programming Kent Beck / Martin Fowler
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler / Kent Beck / John Brant / William Opdyke / Don Roberts
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models Martin Fowler
Leading Lean Software Development Mary Poppendieck / Tom Poppendieck