May 8, 2006
Montreal
Yoga was awesome - I feel so much better - a little sore but all the kinks from sleeping in a different bed and from sitting all day are gone. I picked up some veggie sushi and a drink from the local depanneur and I am kicking back.
The session Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Development With VB.NET today was good - the presenters were great even if the content was geared more towards .NET newbies. But I picked up some new tips about Visual Studio 2005 and got to play with the tools a lot. I had fun exploring Nullable Types, Table Adapters and Master Pages. One of the presenters - Rod Paddock - will be speaking in Edmonton on May 25th at 5:30pm for the Edmonton .NET User Group.
I met another Edmontian named Evan this morning and we had a good talk about Test Driven Development. I still don't get it - probably because where I work we autogenerate the "plumbing" business and data services so there is no need to write tests for them. What interests me is testing the stored procedures and presentation layers - maybe on Friday's Test-Driven Development (TDD) Hand-on workshop by Scott Bellware session a lot of my questions will be answered.
I would load up some pictures of my trip but for some reason the upload function isn't working on my blog.
Tomorrow is the first official day of the conference. I'll see how it goes with soaking up as much as possible without burning out :)
Posted by songdawg at May 8, 2006 7:16 PM | My Life