I've been in Seattle the past week, first at the MVP Summit and now at the ALT.NET event. It's been good to rub shoulders with folks from outside our little ALT.NET cocoon to hear other points of view, but there's a particularly common refrain that bugs me a little bit. It goes something...

There is a short article I wrote called What is ALT.NET on the back page of the March edition of MSDN Magazine. Nothing you haven't seen before if you're a regular reader here, but it was nice to see something in the mainstream. I'd say "my latest article" like James did for his...

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...

The first release of tickets for the UK altnetconf were made available yesterday and were snapped up yesterday. Great to see that there is still enough interest in the alt.net meme , despite the increase in noise over signal on some of the mailing lists of late. We will release another batch soon. Watch...

A short message to let you know that we plan on opening registration for the UK altnetconf (to be held on February 1st and 2nd) on January 2nd. So you will have time to recover from your New Year hangovers before needing to hover over your computer to try and sign up. We will do registration in two batches...

I saw something about breaking up the altnetconf Yahoo list and would like to propose an initial structure. To be clear: the purpose of this proposal is to address two questions about the current list: 1) Should we break up the list? 2) If yes, how should we break it up. So here's my proposal: List...

Wow, Jeremy is on the mark, he beat me to an announcement about Alt.Net.UK . You can check out Ben's blog , where Jeremy saw it. Following Bill and Jeff 's call to arms, we are going to put on an altnetconf in London on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd February 2008. The conference will be Open Spaces...

Check it out here on Ben Hall's blog . I won't be able to go, but I'm looking forward to reading the recaps from the other side of the Atlantic. The official website is http://www.altnetuk.com/

It took a week, but I finally got around to finishing my recap of the ALT.NET Open Spaces event from last weekend. I can honestly say that this was the best experience that I've ever had at a technical conference. I'll mostly pass on name dropping just because I'd end up leaving someone out...