Houston TechFest 2007 — Is this thing on?

The Houston TechFest has come and gone in a flurry of activity that I would say was widely regarded as a success. There were, of course, a few v1.0 type glitches as to be expected from an inaugural event as large as this one. Nonetheless, for an event of this size to be coordinated so [...]

Dinner with Brad Abrams

Last night I attended an event that Chris Koenig organized for all of the speakers at the 1st annual Houston TechFest.  We met up at the Armadillo Palace (Goode Company’s bar) to meet and exchange thoughts and ideas about the conference.  It was great to meet Brad, who was been a key contibuter to the [...]

Updating WCF Service Descriptions

I have been reading Michele Leroux Bustamante’s book on WCF as this is a topic that has been very interesting to me lately.  She has been a guest on .NET rocks and other interesting podcasts several times, and her jovial personality on air intrigued me as to what her books would be like. 
Her book (so [...]

What doth good a tester make?

Most of what we do involves some iterative testing as we code.  Write a few lines – test to make sure it compiles.  Compile a few times — test based on your understanding of the desired functionality.  In everything we do, there are little testing steps built in.  Most of these have become second nature and [...]

Google Developer Podcast

I recently stumbled across a great new podcast that the Java Posse started putting out in June. I wasn’t familiar with the group, but it is a group of people from Googlespace (I am guessing they develop in Java ) that are seasoned podcasters and have now started one to communicate the [...]