{"id":672,"date":"2010-05-10T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:03:52","slug":"developer-day-scotland-dddscot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/developer-day-scotland-dddscot\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Day Scotland #DDDScot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the Developer Day Scotland<\/a> for the second time at the weekend (I had to miss first one, can’t remember why). My sessions did vary a bit from what I had originally intended<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firstly I had forgotten to pick up the directions so couldn’t remember exactly what building it was in. I bumped into someone I recognised from the TechDay event in Edinburgh and having walked further passed the wrong directions I had been given we found the building. There was a slight confusion over badge as one of the many other Alan Grahams had registered too. Got a wee goodie bag which included a DevExpress<\/a> t-shirt. There is a competition to win a Sony Flipcam for anyone wearing the t-shirt in a funny or unusal pose and tweeting it using #DDDScotPic. So far Gavin<\/a> has the only entry so he’s a shoe in.<\/p>\n

Session 1 HTML5 : The Language of the Cloud?<\/h2>\n

Craig Nicol<\/a> gave a talk about HTML5. The takeaway for me was basically to wait until things have settled down a bit. All browsers implement different things so I would be driven mad doing anything yet in my spare time. The video demos were very cool though.<\/p>\n

Session 2 T4 and how it can be used for code generation in Visual Studio 2008 \/ 2010<\/h2>\n

I was looking forward to this. We have a small number of classes using this in one of the projects at work but I haven’t even looked at it yet. The area I was interested in using it was generating enums from a database and this is pretty much what Rob Blackmore promoted it as being good at.<\/p>\n

Session 3 Web standards are broken, and it’s getting worse<\/a><\/h2>\n

I went to this session by Sebastien Lambla<\/a> to find it had turned in to a talk about OpenRasta. If I had known in advance I might have popped to Defensive Programming. As I was in second row and the largest room had a dozen (at most) people I decided to stay. Having not known anything about it beforehand I didn’t really take too much in and the small bit at the end about OpenWrap probably got me more interested.<\/p>\n

Grok Talks<\/h2>\n

A really good grab bag of stuff. Colin MacKay<\/a> on SQL Injection. Someone on Code Dojos. A talk on ways to learn. Seb on his OpenWrap promo. I can’t remember the other one. Something about loving users maybe?<\/p>\n

Session 4 Get Started with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD<\/acronym>) using Cucumber<\/h2>\n

This was a really thought provoking talk by Steve Sanderson<\/a> on Behaviour Driven Development. He gave a bit of background on some of the problems with TDD<\/acronym> and what BDD<\/acronym> set out to solve. His demonstration of writing specs then tests to pass them was really interesting. We are using SWEA at work but it is so fragile and such a hassle to work with we had been thinking of switching to Selenium. Having seen this I want to play around a bit with SpecFlow. I think it might be more suitable.<\/p>\n

Session 5 Enforcing Code \u2018Beauty\u2019 With StyleCop<\/h2>\n

Or as Guy Smith-Ferrier<\/a> referred to it How to start a fight<\/q>. I felt slightly out of place as when he asked who had used it one other person had for 6months. I said it was from before it was called StyleCop. I did get a TekPub 30 day trial for making some comments\/questions during the session. It was an intro to but I managed to pick up some tips on working with Legacy code and had a further spur to dig out StyleCop happy templates for new files.<\/p>\n

Afterwards I popped to Bar Republic to get an amazing pizza then grabbed the train home. Really enjoyable day. The only session I didn’t get what I had wanted was the one which had changed and if it had been as intended it was my preferred session of the day – so I look forward to seeing it next year! Having seen everyone tweeting all day I dug out my tablet but couldn’t get it to log into Twitter. That was a bit dissapointing so I’ll need to investigate what’s up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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