As reported on Stephen Moretti's blog, next Thursday at 3pm EST (8pm British Summer Time) I'll be pair programming using TDD with Ben Nadel for the SCFUG.

I paired with Ben last night and thoroughly enjoyed the process. It makes it much easier to stick with the TDD when pairing and one of my goals this year is to pair with a number of good programmers as I think you can learn a great deal by watching how other people approach projects.

Anyway, check out the announcement and sign up for the fun!

Unfortunately my online presentation on "Practical Code Generation" today got killed by connectivity issues. Many thanks for those of you who stuck it out, and as discussed we'll be redoing the presentation on February 7th at 6pm EST. I'll be back in NYC by then, so connectvity shouldn't be an issue.

If you can't make CFUnited Europe or just want to have an idea of what I'll be talking about, I'll be previewing the talk online this Thursday at 6pm EST.

If you get a chance, you might also want to tune in earlier in the day to hear what Kevin has to say about the work he's done on the Fusebox Scaffolding. That's at noon EST which is 4am Sydney time, so I'm going to have to catch the recording, but it looks like being interesting stuff.

Many thanks to Charlie Arehart for all his hard work in putting this together.

I've just uploaded the slides for my "code quicker - go home earlier" presentation that I gave in Sydney and then Melbourne last month. The other presentations should be appearing any time now at the camp procedings page.

Well, I've just finished my first practitioners report for ooPSLA. Large room, decent attendance, and if I say so myself, a pretty decent deck and presentation. Some information on what we did as well as a quick overview of software product lines, feature modeling, dsl's and the like.

Thanks to Kathy Sierra's keynote, I even put some pictures in the deck which made all the difference.

Here's the presentation, and here is the report (which has a bunch of extra good background information).

Give it a read, I'm quoting Humpty Dumpty - that's gotta count for something :->

As Nick just mentioned, the LightWire recording is now available online.

The presentation provided a brief intro to Dependency Injection, a short overview of ColdSpring and then ran through how to use LightWire and why you might consider it for some use cases.

If you're interested in why you might want to use a programmatic config file, "mixin injection" or "ghetto annotations", check it out. Good Q&A at the end, and as always, Joe had the last word (ColdSpring Forever *grin*).

I just wanted to mention that despite completely rewriting the talk in the 24 hours before the presentation, I feel that it was on the whole a pretty good preso I gave at frameworks (it appears that Sean agreed *blush* !). However, there were some glaring weaknesses and I'd like any input from anyone who attended or who just checked out the preso files to help me to improve . . .

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