Bob On Development

Following Scott Guthrie’s introduction to Microsoft’s new MVC framwork, Scott Hanselman presented a proof-of-concept he’d worked up showing how Python or Ruby could be used as the language for the MVC framework. It was based on an internal July release of the DLR bits.
About all one could really take away from this is that [...]

I feel sorry for the people running sessions in the same time slot as Scott Guthrie’s presentation. Someone came into the room from next door and reminded everyone that they were having a session on Java. Someone called out, “thanks for dropping by, Java Guy!”
Scott says that the goal of the MVC framwork [...]

I did it again. For the second session of the day I chose to learn about TDD and IoC. This time two other people showed up and the speaker was AWOL. So now I’m sitting in a session entitled “What’s Happening in Architecture?”. It’s a free-wheeling discussion amongst ten people including [...]

The “Open Conference” format in use here has resulted in a lot of spontaneous last-minute reorganizing of sessions. Scott Guthrie’s much-anticipated talk on Microsoft’s new MVC framework has been pushed to early afternoon, so I decided to take in Roy Osherove’s talk on Test Driven Development. To my surprise I was the only [...]

Coverage of opening night at the ALT.NET conference in Austin, TX, with some thoughts on the “movement” from a pragmatic “mere mortal”.