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 Monday, May 19, 2008

Thanks to everyone who put together and presented at Austin Code Camp '08, on Saturday. It was a ton of fun. I learned a lot (especially in Ben Scheirman's Resharper-Fu session), met a lot of great people (the 3 LostTechies that presented, plus many more - including some that traveled all the way from Arkansas!), and participated heavily in Chad's Fishbowl TDD/BDD Discussion session.

You can see what classes I attended, over at my Twitter account - in the few days I've been on Twitter, i've become an addict.

The gathering after was also great fun. I'd never been to NxNW before. Good food, good drinks (micro brew), excellent conversation. I met some more great people, including Gordon Montgomery - he's doing some really cool stuff with User Experience and did a session @ACC that I wasn't able to make it to.

But best of all, I got to see what Scott Bellware will look like in 20 years (sorry for the lousy picture quality - taken from my cell phone).

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No, not the lady in the skirt... the guy with the hat and glasses.

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Looking forward to Austin Code Camp '09!

Monday, May 19, 2008 7:28:44 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [1]. Trackback 
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:56:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I was one of the fortunate ones to attend Gordon's presention about the User experience. He made some really good points about how the user does not (currently in a lot of companies) play a vital role in the overall software process. He talked about how he would observe users when they interact with certain types of software to get an understanding of their likes and dislikes.

Anyways, this could get very lengthy! I think this was a must class for all involved in software development. I think I'm going to suggest that next year ADNUG film each presentation. I know there were presentations I wanted to go to but couldn't because of obvious reasons. I would definitely volunteer to hold the camera.

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