With the smoke clearing from the altnetconf this weekend I thought I might reflect a little on the ambience. Once again I was really pleased with how the Open Space format turned out. We find that we do not get any presentations as a result. Instead we just get conversations between interested parties...

It never rains conferences but it pours. Tonight and tomorrow is the 2nd London Alt.Net conference . It has been just over 6 months since the last one, so it will be interesting to see where everyone is this time around. I have no idea what will come up, and I am really interested to get a feel for what...

We are pleased to announce that the Alt.Net UK Conference will be returning in September, and that there will be room for more attendees this time! The plan is host the event at Conway Hall in London and our thinking is to follow the same sort of schedule as we did in February: - Evening planning session...

One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here . Now I have to confess to being a classicist. I tried being a mockist, but I...

Those of you who can't attend Altnetconf UK may still want to keep in touch with what we are up to during the day. We have three mechanisms to help you do that: First, Dave Verwer , has set up a newsriver for us where you will be able to pick up AltNetUK tagged posts. Second, we intend to update...