August 2009 Entries

What I learned at Day of .Net Day 2

Everyone has their own favorite Mock, Unit Testing, Dependency Injection tools. No two people used the same setup. Lee Brandt is the man Also, BDD and floogle rock. even though =()=> kind of looks like a wiener :) Even when I didn’t get what I expected out of a presentation, I learned something. Resharper works better during a presentation than Refactor Pro. The roasted veggie sandwich is even greasier the second day (but still good). Yes,...

posted @ Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:27 PM | Feedback (2)

What I learned at St. Louis Day of .NET Day 1

Agile doesn’t have much to offer small teams. Event Driven Development is apparently another name for MSMQ. WPF has some cool stuff I didn’t realize (“2*” for sizing grid cells). St. Louis has more “Developer Daisies” that I would have thought. Most presenters used Apple laptops, and more than one had problems. One had to cancel because of laptop issues. The sandwiches are better at Ameristar than at America’s Center. UX is very much underrepresented (One bird’s eye view...

posted @ Friday, August 28, 2009 9:09 PM | Feedback (0)