Last weeks’ Richmond Code Camp was excellent! After giving my presentation I hung out in the Open Spaces area where the topics ranged from a custom framework that separates concerns in ASP.Net to whether or not Behavior-Driven Development is distinct from Test-Driven Development. The after-party featured Alan Stevens performing on his guitar; we left before he did “Code Monkey”.
I ended up speaking to small audience in a large auditorium. The tips I got from the other speakers afterwards (get down with audience, get them asking questions, etc.) will help next time. Thanks to ken.taylor for his kind words. Here as promised are the presentation files.
Alan Stevens was provocative and interesting. As leader of the (almost) Open Space, aka Community Courtyard, aka, goodness by any other name, Alan forced participants to articulate and defend their positions while reexamining the familiar. I look forward to participating in future events. In fact, I’m even considering CodeStock so I can be part of the real Open Space he’ll be facilitating. Not that I’m a fanboy or anything, but I was impressed. Speaking of impressive, he showed an ASP.Net framework which achieves good separation of concerns. Hopefully, he will remember to post the files for his framework; it looked like an excellent way to refactor existing ASP.Net code for unit-testing.
The after-party was fun, good food (paid courtesy of the organizers, Thanks!), good friends (both those I know, and those I’d just met) and some very funny songs supplied by Alan. I was a bit worried his first song would get us thrown out and was too busy laughing to care.
That’s all for now, later!