I'm going, first one in a very loooong time. Anyone from Glasgow also going? There are prizes listed, but not how you win them... hmm... :) Get more information here: http://www.scottishdevelope...

Stefan Lieser has posted a great preview of a plugin he's working on for Resharper for working with NHibernate mapping files. I've installed it and like it alot already. Anything that makes it easer to work with XML is a good thing in my book! Features he has implemented so far are: Name and type of mapped class is verified Id name and type is verified Property names and types are verified (not the access attribute!) many-to-one and one-to-one names and types are verified Component names and types...

I'm trying to build rhino-tools/Castle/NHibernate stack following the instructions here: http://davidgardiner.blogsp... but for the life of me I can't get it working! Whenever I try to build Castle, either using the modified build script from Dave or the ones supplied with Castle I get the following error: Warning as error: Invalid search path 'C:\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system...

I've been developing with Test Driven Development for awhile now (more in the form of Behavioural Driven Development) both in and outside of work. I've recently started a new job where TDD isn't used and I've been showing the other developers how I use it. If you have ever read a TDD book, you'll know every argument against TDD they have given to me: Adds too much time Not beneficial for the client Makes things complicated It's to be used by people, not machines Bad experience Adds too much time...