OKC Code Camp - After Thoughts

I’m in the airport now awaiting my flight home.  The code camp was a blast!  I was very glad to meet a bunch of very smart folks and pick their brains.  I also miss my family, so I’m glad to be going home.

Being surrounded by like-minded people really validates that the things that we are doing are of value, and I really think that the industry is poised for a change as a whole.  At the code camp there was an Agile Experts Panel (which I was a part of somehow  )  — anyway, there was only one guy up there that was questioning the things that we were talking about.  In my experience the agile ones are the outnumbered ones.  There were a number of .NET newcomers who were just getting into development, and it was really good to recommend some solid books and blogs to get them started.

It was fun to listen to Scott Bellware not pull any punches and be incredibly blunt about what he believes about agile. 

A couple of my favorite quotes of the day:

• “God forbid we ask our developers to LEARN…” – Scott Bellware
• “When you fire up the debugger to verify something and then click stop, the ‘test’ that you just performed goes into the ether.  Every time someone does that, God kills a kitten…” – Dave Laribee

I can’t wait to get together with these guys again at the ALT.NET open spaces conference in October.

(oh — I’m working on finishing the example from my presentation, so I’ll post the files for that as soon as I finish)