Hot Agilista Update

Hot Agilista #2 (that's me) is in her hotel room writing a blog entry. Meanwhile Hot Agilista #1 (thats Oksana) packs her things for the journey home.

Things I learned at devteach:

• Oksana and I are Boffers, not Speakers
• Ayende's mind never stops. Its not surprising, but its been great to spend so much time with him here. He could probably fill a book
• Scott Bellware likes to torture people by taking them to questionable restaurants.
• JP Boodhoo is very disciplined and plays Gears of War!
• ActiveNick and I are going to have fun playing Gears of War with JP!
• Oksana rocks (I already knew that, but its still true)
• Carl Franklin is quite the musician
• Udi Dahan is surprisingly easy to talk to
• Beth Massi is very cool
• Roy Osherove is very funny.

PS although not documented by our paparazzi, our BoF was everyone's devteach highlight!

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The Gentle Art of Pair Programming -- the Short, Short Version

Oksana and I held a birds of a feather session on Pair Programming this afternoon and after a late start, we had big turn out.

The audience was excellent and enthusiastic. Thank you for your questions and interest!

For those of you who didn't get enough of us, we'll be presenting a full tutorial at Agile 2007 in August -- more details to follow.

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Hello from DevTeach

DevTeach is well underway in Montreal and the agile track, has been getting a great turn out. I'm really glad to see an interest in agile; I hope people take something back with them.

While the presentations are good, the best part of any conference is the conversations. DevTeach is no exception.

Session Highlights:
1. JP Boodhoo's sessions on refactoring and enterprise patterns -- JP is an enthusiastic speaker and I like his style. Longer sessions would have been great for both these classes. JP even tolerated all my questions, which takes great patience.
2. Jerry Miller's session on Rules of Agile Design -- I agree with everything he had to say (except calling them laws :P)
3. Scott Bellware's session on Behavioral Driven Development -- do we need to rethink our naming conventions again? I really enjoyed how Scott took us through the evolution of an interesting, but understandable example.

There are a few sessions I would have liked:
1. Analysis Services in Sql Server or something about MDX
2. Introduction to Inversion of Control
3. Commands and Bindings in Xaml
4. The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (the full thing!)

Oksana and I are buying Ayende, the creator of Rhino Mocks, for a beer later, so that should be fun!

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Bonus Session

Oksana and my session about pair programming is now featured on the bonus session page for devteach, check it out!

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DevTeach here we come!

If you missed Oksana and me at Code Camp (or just can't get enough), we'll be hosting a session on pair programming at DevTeach in May!

Scott Bellware put together an excellent Agile track, and its going to be a great event.

If its not on your schedule, you're not thinking about missing a conference that features speakers as exciting as Oksana and me, are you?

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