Last week, Aaron and I were hanging out with a bunch of the Microsoft MVP's that were up in Seattle for the MVP Summit. We had an absolute blast and got to meet some excellent developers. It was a great opportunity to get a sense for how others in our situation were handling similar problems and to share things that we have all learned along the way. We had a few beers at the Party with Palermo event and the following day a few of the guys dropped by the Eleutian Seattle offices and we threw together a podcast with Scott Hanselman. It's a very quick introduction to MonoRail for those that aren't familiar. We go on to discuss testability and IoC in the context of the Castle project. It was a great chance to expose MonoRail and the concepts behind it to a wider audience.
In no particular order, here are some blogs if you're interested in some good reading on various areas of software development:
- Scott Bellware - Development practices, C# 3.0, Ruby, and more. His company, Dovetail, is looking into starting development using MonoRail. They are hiring.
- Jeremy Miller - Agile, especially TDD, IoC, etc... Jeremy wrote StructureMap, an IoC framework. So, he definitely knows the why behind a lot of the agile practices.
- Scott Hanselman - Anything and everything development and technology. I always find something new here. I'm sure you will also.
I'm glad to see some of the news that came out of the summit. I'm sure one of us will be back to expound on them once we've done a little more research and tinkering.