Got a couple training events to plug. First, a fast paced and code-heavy journey towards understanding IOC.  This free event features about 20 minutes of slides and another hour of live coding.  We talk basics but quickly dive into advanced techniques.  We had a packed house last time, so please register early. Free Inversion of [...]

I received word today that I’m a Microsoft MVP for C#.  Cool. This next bit is going to read like some phony sales pitch or something but it’s legitimate: I got the award because I work at a great company that nurtures community involvement, encourages open source contribution and gives me the opportunity to develop [...]

Jeffrey and Eric will be delivering a free afternoon of ASP.NET MVC in Austin on Tuesday, June 16th.  If you haven’t yet had a run-in with the new framework or if you’re ready to see what we’ve learned using ASP.NET MVC in the field, this afternoon will be an excellent opportunity to compress learning and [...]

I’m into the idea of a code camp.  So many conferences and presentations I attend are chatty and abstract, it’ll be good to see Studio and Resharper and keyboard shortcuts and macros and hard core programming fly around on projectors all day. Since I’m facilitating for six hours, this is a list of sessions that [...]

I’ll facilitate two sessions at Austin Code Camp on May 30th. The first is called Take It For A Test Drive – clearly a failed attempt at a witty name for a hands-on-keyboard workshop where participants will design and implement a new feature for CodeCampServer, an open source ASP.NET MVC project.  We’ll get our hands [...]

Today at Headspring we’re pleased to have Eric Anderson on board.  Eric’s been hanging around the Austin agile software development community for a few years, and he’s been to many of the ALT.NET conferences, including the last one in Seattle.  It’s exciting to see the company grow in the right direction… welcome Eric!

Last night I presented a talk titled Practical Inversion Of Control to a packed house at the Austin .NET User Group.  It was a blast.  I’d guess there were 80 developers there, maybe more.  Interestingly, when I asked the room “Who uses an IOC tool at work,” about 10 hands went up, at the most. [...]

I’m presenting a talk titled Practical Inversion of Control at the Austin .Net User Group on Monday.  This will be a beginner to intermediate level session in which we’ll answer the “what”, “why” and “how” questions about IOC and explore both basic and more interesting usage scenarios …