Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan Hodgson

London .NET User Group 23rd June

Jon and I attended the London .NET User Group meeting on Thursday (June 23rd). The two guest speakers were excellent.

First up was Charlie Poole, lead developer for the NUnit project.  Charlie's laptop had almost run out of batteries and nobody had a UK adapter, so instead of running the risk of his power giving up partway through the presentation, he asked the audience what they wanted him to talk about.  This approach worked absolutely perfectly, Charlie has around 30 years of development experience and has a lot to say about testing and development methodologies. Charlie had just come from presenting at the XP2005 conference at Sheffield University, so we were treated to some of his thoughts on Extreme programming and agile methodologies as well.  It was a real shame that he had to stop speaking as I think we could have listened to him all night.

Second up was Benjamin Mitchell, who gave an excellent introductory presentation to Indigo, he gave people who had never heard of Indigo before great insight into its usage and extensibility. Benjamin is an excellent speaker and communicates the topic very well.