This weekend I was in Glasgow presenting my ‘dynamic languages and .NET’ presentation at DeveloperDay Scotland. I demonstrated how you can take advantage of IronRuby as a language, but also how you could host the DLR within your own application to enhance your feature set. I had a great time and the conference was a great success. A massive thank you to Colin Mackay and the others for organising the event, as well as everyone who attended my session.

Slides can be found below, hosted via SlideShare. Code samples can be downloaded here. Photos can be found here.

I was also involved in the Database Testing panel. Very interesting discussion on how to test databases, thank you to everyone who attend the discussion.

One slight disappointment, Gary Short left before giving his IronSmalltalk grok talk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinangusmackay/3496808871/

Next up, DDD South West.

Labels: DDD, DDS, DLR, IronRuby

This weekend I was up in Glasgow for Developer Day Scotland! I was their presenting my Red, Green, Refactor session which covers TDD and Test Doubles, very similar session to the one I did last weekend at DDD Ireland - this one just had a few tweaks...

As for the conference, I think Colin Mackay and team did a great job, everything seemed to happen seamlessly and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. Everyone who attendee were very excited and passionate about the event which really improved the atmosphere and made it a lot easier for everyone involved.

As for my session, I was very happy with it. I discussed everything I wanted, all the demo's worked, and finished on time. It could have been better, but overall I was very happy with the outcome.

Slides: BenHall_RedGreenRefactor_Slides.zip

Code: BenHall_RedGreenRefactor_Code.zip

At lunch, I did a grok talk on Red Gate's SQL Data Generator. Red Gate were one of the sponsors, but I just wanted to give a good honest demo of the product - not any marketing! Everyone I spoke to afterwards was really impressed with the application which is always good.

Next up, NxtGenUG Coventry where I will be presenting the same session, if you are in the area why not come along.

Labels: DDD, DDS

For DDDIreland, all of the speakers where asked to do a teaser about their session. This is the session I will be running at DeveloperDayScotland and NxtGenUG Coventry.

The teaser is just a short 4 min demo of writing your first test and what else to expect from my session.

Session abstract:

"Starting to unit test your first project is difficult, where to start? What to test? How do you even get started? In this session, Ben starts from scratch and implements an ASP.net 2.0 application using test driven development techniques. The application will have to deal with real world situations such as databases, web services and even some users! Ben will demonstrate how to design the application for testability and how unit testing and mock frameworks can make your life easier and your tests less fragile. At the end, will the tests go green?"

If you have any questions about the session, then please contact me.

View it online - SPEAKING @ DDDIreland.com - BEN HALL - May 3rd 2008 Galway

Download from http://blog.benhall.me.uk/downloads/Screencasts/DDDIreland/DDDIrelandTeaser.wmv

As a side note, the registration for DDDIreland is now open! You can register here

Labels: DDD, DDDIreland, DDS

  Just to let everyone know, I will be speaking at DDD Scotland (May 10th). I will be doing my Red, Green, Refactor session!

Session Abstract:

Red, Green, Refactor!
Speaker: Ben Hall
Starting to unit test your first project is difficult, where to start? What to test? How do you even get started? In this session, Ben starts from scratch and implements an ASP.net 2.0 application using test driven development techniques. The application will have to deal with real world situations such as databases, web services and even some users! Ben will demonstrate how to design the application for testability and how unit testing and mock frameworks can make your life easier and your tests less fragile. At the end, will the tests go green?

For the agenda visit http://developerdayscotland.com/main/Agenda/tabid/68/Default.aspx

You can register at the registration page

I look forward to seeing everyone there.

Labels: DDD, DDS