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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

Posted by Owen Evans on Friday, August 8th, 2008

hmmmmm where to go for beers tonight?….. #
man it’s cold outside. #
@stuartm black harp ok with you? #
@teamxero thanks for giving me a podium http://is.gd/1j07 #
@stuartm well 4:30 sounds good to me, but prob a bit early can we say 5? anyone is welcome to join in, sent an invite round xero #
new blog post: post 300 http://is.gd/1j1b #
I want one http://is.gd/1j1w #
so if anyone wants to come along myself and @stuartm and some Xero folks will be at the Black Harp from about 5pm #
well unit tests suggest my code is working…. but with WCF i’m never 100 percent convinced… tooo much configuration #
urgh and the integration tests take 30+ seconds to run and that’s only three tests :O #
@stuartm cool beans #
@stuartm, leaving here in 5 #
@nikz erm technically no…. but i can set you up without too much hassle to have a play in our sandbox #
@nikz send me an email owen at xero dot com and i’ll give you the details #
wow i think katy just broke the record for time to fall asleep. all i did was brush my teeth and she’s snoring already #