Microblogging for September 29th 2008

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@markusegger They will appreciate the banks when they are gone and there is no liquidity whatsoever (View)

@WinHEC We’ll be at the PDC, dunno about WinHEC though (View)

@craigber That being the case, they’ll pay the price at the polls (View)

@Ben_Hall I would imagine so, but as yet there’s no details (View)

DevExpress is gearing up for PDC, check out our trailer at http://tv.devexpress.com/pdcpromo.movie (View)

Heard a rumour that the US bail out has failed. Is that right? You guys have got to be kidding me; WFT are you doing over there?!!! (View)

@CAMURPHY you should have used dependency injection to inject BathingMonitor.Wife into the running code (View)

markusegger ah right, got you. Well hope it works out and that we can catch up at the PDC (View)

markusegger no worries, what did you want it for? (View)

@ColinMackay next Monday is the holiday here (View)

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Oren Eini in the UK, Want to Hear Him Speak?

When: Monday 13th October 2008, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm

Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) – Room 2q50 (in Q block)

What: "Producing Production Quality Software" and "Interaction based testing with Rhino Mocks"

Who: Oren Eini is the author of Rhino Mocks and a major contributor to Castle and NHibernate.

Why: Because Oren is in the UK for a couple of weeks and we’ve managed to nab him whilst he’s here. This is a rare opportunity to listen to someone who can make a real difference to the success of your project.

How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the October Extra meeting.

"Producing Production Quality Software" Abstract:

Working software is no longer the only thing that we need to produce. We need to create a software system that has a chance of surviving in the cruel world of production system, outside the clean room and sterile environment of development and QA. Understanding bottlenecks in the system, preventing cascading failures and recovery strategies have ceased being the problems of the very high end players. With the cost of system downtime being measures in $$$/second, this is an area we have to consider all the way. In this talk we will cover how we can map common weaknesses in the system design, preemptively protect ourselves from them, and produce software systems that can withstand the real world hostile environment.

"Interaction based testing with Rhino Mocks" Abstract:

Beyond the simplest scenarios, all objects had collaborators that they work with. This flies in the face of testing objects in isolation. This is the problem that mock objects were created to solve. In this talk you will learn what mock objects are, how to utilize them and best practices on when / how to utilize them. Rhino Mocks is a mock objects framework for .Net whose core goals are to let the developer rely on the compiler work well with refactoring tools.

Bio:

Oren Eini is an independent consultant based in Israel, focusing on architecture and best practices that lead to quality software and zero friction development processes. He is the author of Rhino Mocks, the most popular mocking framework on the .Net platform as well as a member of other well known open source projects, chief among them are the Castle project and NHibernate.
Oren is an internationally known speaker, and the author of the soon to be published book: Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo.

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