Are all of the agile practices so new?

My presentation last week on effective development of existing code in .NET using testsupport seemed to have been very appreciated.  The materials can be downloaded from the dotway site, the directlink is this.

I had atleast double the amount of material prepared, but we needed to focus on some basics as well which made the available time less. The download includes the presented material only, in order to not confuse too much. (Dotway plug: If you are interested in more testsupport techniques such as TDD and what I talked about this time, we do offer a 2 day introductory course announced here).

This week I get some vacation in the alps.
 

I will be talking about Continuous Integration at Nordev 2006, although it has been renamed to/rebranded as Developer Summit 2006. The agenda is to be posted at the site shortly. The event takes place May 31st to June 1st in Kista.

I've got a cold. It's very often the same after you've been to the alps, you get a cold afterwards. A previous boss of mine used to say that a skiing vacation should be followed by a resting vacation. Many of us devs usually went skiing together and it took a couple of days to get up back to speed. And a cold afterward was not uncommon. Anyway, I'm trying to get better fast, sleeping and reading because tomorrow I will attend Guerilla.NET 2.0 here in malmö. I'm excited to see how developmentor courses are, and if these guerilla courses really are as good as some people say.

My next talk will be february 28th one in our breakfast seminars series at dotway. It somehow got the somewhat unfortunate title "testdriven development in a legacy environment", which is not completely correct but there are naturally many influences and parallells. Technically we will hopefully get to talk about what kinds of unique seams .NET offers, how to exploit them and how you should stay focused on the target, and more. The talk is in Malmö near central station (here) and the date is 2006-02-28.

For those that attended my generics talk at either Öredev in November or the SNUG meeting last monday, the presentation is available in powerpoint format from www.dotway.se, at this downloads page.