When I posted a call for a geek get-together over at NerdDinner.com I never thought so many people would RSVP. Now I don't know how many of those are just folks playing with the site and how many really intend to come (some of the user names really look like test accounts) In its current state, NerdDinner...
UPDATE: Steve has published the video of the presentation . There are still a few seats left for the next Chicago ALT.NET meeting. The meeting is on April 8 th and we will have a demonstration of FitNesse by Robert Martin. FitNesse is used by many people for acceptance testing and many in our group wanted...
Next Tuesday, March 24 th I'll give a JavaScript talk at the Rockford .NET user group. This talk will be basically the same one I gave for the LCNUG back in December. The few opportunities I had to give this talk were highly rewarding. It's priceless to see developers realizing how mistakenly...
In the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET users group we will try an Open Space format — or rather maybe I should say a format with some characteristics of Open Spaces given our time and space constraints. If you haven't been to a meeting held in this format, maybe you think this sounds crazy...
After an unfortunate cancelation of our last meeting because of the weather, February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET Group should be a very interesting one. Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin looks into XP's rearviewmirror, lessons learned, and the current status of Agile development. XP:...