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Today has been interesting, I have been to conferences where you sit and listen, such as DDD, TechEd etc. I have been to conferences where everyone is encouraged to talk open spaces style such as Alt.Net, but today has fallen between the two styles. The Software Craftsmanship 2009 conference has been in more of a workshop style; most sessions have started with a short presentation to set the scene then the attendees split to forms small groups to do some exercise or chat, reporting back later in the session. A sort of lead open spaces feel if you want. ...

Is so have a look at Notion Tools from Team System. This set of tools provides A timesheet based on works items that you access inside Visual Studio A work organizer to manage work items and documents allowing creation of hierarchies A work planner to help schedule resources for future iterations. Well worth a look as a means to extend the reach of TFS into your Agile projects.

I have been looking at porting a old content editor I wrote from WinForm to SilverLight and hit the problem there was no HTML editor control available in the standard Silverlight 2 control set. Roll in the excellent SLExtensions controls on CodePlex, to save the day….. Now I did hit one problem with the HTMLEditor, that was addressed very quickly in for support forums. The point to watch out for is that for the HTMLEditor control to work the Silverlight object must be loaded into the web page with the setting to be windowless ...

You can now register at http://www.altdotnetuknorth.info/

agileyorkshire.org is the new home for the Agile Yorkshire user group. If you follow the link you will see that next months subject is Test Doubles: An Introduction To Unit Test Patterns. Unfortunately I won’t able able to make this session as I will be out of the country, but sounds interesting.

You may have seen on a few blogs that Skills Matter are organising the Progressive .NET Tutorials, a 3 day event in May. I have to say that the selection of speakers is excellent including Hammett, Ayende Rahien, David Laribee, Gojko Adzic, Ian Cooper, Mike Hadlow, Scott Belware and Sebastien Lambla; on subjects such as NHibernate, Castle, Monorail, Agile Testing, Web Testing, DSL’s in C#, OpenRasta, Windsor WCF, MEF (Microsoft’s Managed Extensions Framework) and more… ...

There is a bit more information on the the Alt.Net conference now at http://www.altdotnetuknorth.info/ Registration will open next week at noon on Tuesday the 24th February.

On the same day as the Alt.Net event I am organising there is a community event at TVP ‘WebDD'09 - With all the latest stuff from MIX 09’. We are spoilt, there is so much choice in the community events at this time of year

I am please to be able to announce that there will be an Alt.net Open Space Conference in Bradford on the 17/18th April this year. I had mentioned my intension of organising such an event at the last London conference, but it has taken a bit longer than expected to get sorted due to problems with getting the venue. The event will be hosted by Black Marble at their office in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and there will be space for 50 attendees. The format will be the same as previous UK Alt.net conferences. ...

At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts. Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint