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Thursday, August 28, 2008

It's great when we manage to get people like Dan North to NNUG. Many knew who he was from before and where excited to hear what he had to say, others didn't know so much about him but where excited by what the others told them. Dan talked about BDD and DDD, and how they are related. He said that without DDD, BDD would not have existed (hope I got that right). Which says a lot about BDD AND DDD! :-)

One of the more funny things I remember from the event (which is not related to the topic itself) was the use of I in Interface in e.g. C#. So Dan said, why not use the I for something meaningful? Ask the interface the question: What do you do? And the interface says: ISendEmail or ISearchFiles or IPingComputers. This is a great way of giving interfaces roles. I just think this is brilliant!

My overall impression of the event was really good, but I would like to know what you think. Comment on this blog or drop me an email here. Actually since we had him over at Contiki as well, I'm a bit confused about what was said in his presentation and not :-) Right now there is so much new and interesting knowledge trying to be consumed in my brain that I'm having problems concentrating :-) 

I hope you liked the event and I also hope you would like us to continue getting people like Dan to Bergen.

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Monday, September 01, 2008 10:48:41 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)
I've just created a comic strip tribute to Dan after the visit.., have a look at the contiki strip #5.
Sunday, September 07, 2008 10:04:51 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)
Hi Jon.

Sorry if I confused you at Contiki. We certainly covered a lot of ground! I think Torbjørn's comic strip captures a lot of the good stuff :)

I can't take credit for the IDoSomething style of naming C# interfaces. I heard about it from a ThoughtWorks colleague (I don't remember who - it might have been Andy Palmer) and I really like it too!

There's a nice write up about it on Anthony Marcano's blog, where it seems it originated with Udi Dahan.

Cheers, Dan
Monday, September 08, 2008 1:08:43 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)
Dan, you're not the one that confused me :) I was just mixing up what was covered during your presentation at NNUG and what you covered at Contiki. And you're totally right, we covered a lot of ground! Much more than I would have imagined.

Thanks for the links. Somehow I knew I had heard this mentioned before. Actually I think I heard Udi mention it in one of his talks. Øredev maybe...
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