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CodeCamp: in need input

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ok so this is a bit of a plea.
I’ve a week or so to work on my CodeCamp presentation “MVC and Me” (ok so would have been cooler to link to flight of the navigator but that’s too hard for me to pull off) and I’m still trying to gather as many ideas about what [...]

Split And Sprint

Posted by Owen Evans on Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In a forthcoming book (before you ask I’ve no idea what the title is) there’s a little case study about the first project i ever truly worked on as a developer. The project and the team have some of my fondest memories, and I’d want to work with any of the people in the small [...]

Post 300

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

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness [...]

Posts Tagged ‘wellington’

To Snapper or not to Snapper

Friday, July 25th, 2008

So for those who aren’t in Wellington, the local busses are starting to completely roll out the new Snapper card payment system. If you’re from the UK think Oyster.
Let me first off say that I REALLY want to like this system, I loved travelling round London on the Oyster, and putting my monthly passes on [...]

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Wellington Geek Lunch

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

So today we managed to get the Wellington Geek Lunches off the ground. The enthusiasm was great, hopefully we can convert it into long term stickability*. We’re trying to decide on a decent wellington venue for the meetings but we’ve agreed to try a meeting room next week (if anyone has a suitable, easy access [...]

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Mocking 101

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Last night I held my first presentation for the Wellington .net user group, it went down really well and I think I managed to keep everyone’s attention for the 50 minutes or so i rambled on. It was really encouraging to see so many people there as mocking and unit testing still feel alt.net to [...]

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war stories

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I’ve roped myself into giving a talk on mocking and frameworks, going to cover Rhino.Mocks, Typemock and touch on Moq, but I thought I’d put a call out for anyone who has any war stories around mocking that I can work in. good or bad, I don’t want to just present a one-sided argument. so [...]