It’s Canada Day, and what better way to celebrate geekdom with a 100% All-Beef Canadian announcement. We’re very proud to present the first major Canadian Open Spaces ALT.NET event , hosted right here in my hometown of Calgary August 15-17, 2008. The event follows the same principals and format as the...

We’ve released version 2.0 of Tree Surgeon . This is the first major release since I took the project over from Mike Roberts. This release adds the following features: 2005 and 2008 support in addition to the original 2003 support Ability to choose the unit test framework generated (NUnit or MbUnit)...

In my original post on testing Windsor Container mappings , I posted a spec to run whenever you are using Castle Windsor in your project. It basically ran through your configuration file and ensured all the mappings worked. This was meant to be a safety net to catch a rename or namespace move in the...

Over the past year or two, I've been a casual observer into the Entity Framework coming out of Microsoft. Being an ALT.NET guy, the world tends to revolve around NHibernate for me so I've already got an excellent OR/M tool in my toolset. One of the big issues with EF that we've recognized is the general...

This is just a post to direct people to the CI Feature Matrix that ThoughtWorks maintains. If you're up in the air about choosing a CI system, then this is the page for you. They maintain an unbiased view (their words, not mine) of all the CI systems out there (and there are a lot of them). So if you...

I have Mingle 2.0 upgraded in our test environment and have been going through the new features, upgrade woes, and some remarks from the peanut gallery. Here's the rundown on this Agile planning tool. Upgrading Upgrading was a bit of a pain. To do the test I backed up our Mingle db and restored it to...

Registration for the ALT.NET event in Seattle (April 18-20) is closed so if you register you'll get put onto the waiting list (there are only a few people on it right now). However the participant list is simply amazing. It's like the who's who of the Agile software development world. Phil Haack, Tom...

I attended AONW last year and had a fabulous time. It was great to reconnect with some of the local practitioners and have some really interesting conversations and be introduced to new idea. If you can make it I would highly recommend attending this year. Remember, attendance is limited to the first...

Dave Laribee and team have done an excellent job of getting the next Seattle ALT.NET open space conference up and going. I'm pleased to say registration is open up now (and will probably fill up by the time I finish writing this blog entry). So get going and register now ! We've made things hopefully...

I got an email from ScrumMaster Andrea about an update I should do to my Scrum Tools Roundup post . Andrea drew my attention to the Agilo for Scrum tool, an open source add-on for the Trac Project . The Trac project is a wiki/issue tracking system (written in Python, my #2 favourite language next to...