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Behaviour Driven Development

Posted by Owen Evans on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Last night I had a lot of fun presenting at the Wellington .net User Group on Behaviour Driven Development.

Below are the slides from the talk.

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TechEd 2009 Day 2

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Day 2 seems a bit thinner on the ground for dev talks.

Challenging the role of Software Architect by Kevin Fancis Not so much challenging as saying we need them more, which I disagree with, had personal disagreements with the content of the talk and for the first time at TechEd I felt compelled to leave the [...]

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TechEd 2009 Day 1

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, September 14th, 2009

Well day one is coming to a close, so before I forget I need to get my thought’s down on paper…. well virtual paper..

keynote

I really think MS need to rethink inviting politicians to TechEd, it really adds very little value for people in the audience, in the end it’s a gathering of IT professionals and [...]

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getting out of the comfort zone

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, December 3rd, 2007

December is upon us and I’ve decided to actively try and increase the amount of posts I make to my blog, trying to pick up interesting and diverse topics and actively writing 1 article every Monday to Friday, I’m not sure how well I’ll stick to it but it’s worth a try.

I’ve recently realised it’s nearly a year since I left my job in the UK and decided to travel all the way round the world to work in New Zealand. Assessing the work I’ve done since then I’m not 100% happy, I seem to have slipped into the inevitable comfort zone, and not even realised it.

The comfort zone is something that really scares me, it’s the place where I go from an active member of the development community to JAD (Just Another Developer). I can’t remember the last time I actively tried to push my own boundaries and worked on something I had no clue how to do, and actively learned. I also seem to be way to comfortable to just accept problems with the software I’m working on as inevitable and don’t actively try and fix up problems such as tight coupling, low cohesion and other elements that make my job difficult on a day to day basis. Instead I seem to have let it was over me, slowly dipping my foot into the pool of the dreaded 80% unreachable people.

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I have to agree with Jeff Atwood that this group scares me, not the individuals, just the apathy of the group. However I’ve started to become one of those people. So from this day forward for the next year I’m going to try and take myself out of my comfort zone. I’m tempted to resurrect my old pet project NFitnesse again, although I’m no longer sold on the Fitnesse Idea, I’ve found it quite hard to gain traction in an existing environment.

I’m also determined to get everyone around me evangelising Test driven and behaviour driven development, and really going to try and finish some technical books that have sat on my shelf for a bit too long.

The comfort zone should be something we are all scared of, don’t let it take you.

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