Monthly Archives: April 2004

Women Who Code BOF at TechEd 2004

Just Rambling

It looks like people are a suddenly little curious about either why there aren’t more women coding or why we aren’t aware of all of the women out there who are coding or some who just don’t understand why this is even an issue for many of us.

So, maybe this is a good time (or maybe a bad time?) to bring this up (heh heh) but I just HAPPEN to be running another Women who Code BOF at TechEd 2004. Why don’t you all just come to the session and we can talk just about this ONE topic for a little while. I would love to see some people who are wondering *why* we even care about this issue come to this session. Or just understand what some of us think these issues actually *are* rather than reacting based on something different.

It looks like they have worked out the the hiccups of dual servers, so go see all of the great BOF sessions so far and vote as you wish.

DevSource .NET Rock Star Interview

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This* is a humongous honor, especially since I am third in line after Chris Sells and Paul Vick.

I’m a little embarrassed by that title, but it’s just what the article is called.

I’ll be hanging around DevSource’s forums for a few days if you really want to harrass me or anything. It might be a good way to promote a few things, like BOFs at TechEd or whatever.

*that’s the home page link and of course that page will eventually change, so here is a more permanent link…

 

Jimmy Nilsson’s Test Driven Development VSLive presentation

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Jimmy Nilsson presented on TDD at VSLive recently. He writes in his blog “a couple of guys told me that they love the idea of TDD, but they have a hard time getting started each time they try. One of them said that he had a couple of setters and getters, some add methods, and some calculations, but it’s very hard to know where to add tests.”

I understand this fully! It is something you need to cut out a large chunk of time to get started up in and I have never gotten very far. I do unit testing in .NET the hard way, still. Write a little code, compile and run the whole damned application. In VB6, you could run chunks of code from anywhere from the immediate window. But the way the CLR works, you can’t do that in .NET.

Jimmy postulates that the problem is very much like error handling. If you have already got a ton of your code written, it’s a real pain to plug in the TDD code after the fact. His advice is here. (same link as above)

Also, he talks about the presentaiton and posted the his transcript from his talk here.

 

John Bristowe on TechEd fashions…

Just Rambling

…and I thought it was only us chicks who worried about this stuff! I actually wore my first geek t-shirt ever in public at PDC – the “I’m blogging this” shirt. I even wore a t-shirt from the .net 1.0 shipping celebrations to my user group last month because it was kind of funny. It says “Ship, Shower and Shave. Well, the last two can wait”. It was a gift from the BCL team — I think in thanks for my .net namespace poem I wrote in January. That was a result of having the WinFX Developer PReview poster hanging on my wall for a while.

Tim Huckaby, Raconteur Extraodinaire, coming to Vermont.NET

Ineta

If you *must* look up the definition: here!

Tim Huckaby, known simply as “Huckaby” to some, is coming to speak at Vermont.NET on May 10th. Tim lives in California, so to take advantage of the trip east, he and his wife will be doing an enviable little New England B&B tour (NH, Maine, etc.) before arriving in Burlington.

Besides his impressive c.v. (CEO of InterKnowlogy, INETA Speaker, MSDN RD, etc. etc. with some very impressive clients as well) Tim is a very entertaining guy. His .NET Rocks interview is a classic!

At the VTdotNET meeting, Tim will be doing a talk on Smart Clients that he will also be doing at TechEd.

Many thanks to INETA for bringing Tim all the way here from California. We have our next INETA sponsored speaker, another RD from California, in fact, Michele Leroux Bustamante, coming in June. Oooh are we going to have fun!