Community events and interesting stuff I have stumbled upon

Community events 

Over the last couple of months I have spent some time participating at usergroup events and listening to podcasts - to a larger extent than usual. Actually just today I was at "Dev Days - architecture that works", which was the first whole day ANUG event. The turnout was great and the speakers did a good job, so I think the foundation for more similar events was layed. Events like this and the passion that people display for their work is really what makes it so much fun to be a developer.

A few weekends ago I hosted my first codecamp which was about ASP.NET MVC, which will be followed up by a podcast this weekend - which will later be available at anug.dk. It's been a lot of fun and really giving to see how others approach things, and to be able to discuss issues with others that are of a technical nature, and therefore out of scope for everyday discussions with customers and projectmanagers.

Interesting stuff

Well, this post was actually meant to be build around a couple of links I wanted to give some attention, so here it goes.

I am hoping that I'll soon have more time to get back on track with blogging about IronPython - which has been parked for a couple of months because I have been busy moving and doing other stuff. A small but very cool link I found the other day actually gives you a chance to get started with IronPython withput having to install a bunch of stuff. Just go to TryIronPython.org and try it out - with my previous posts as a guide of course :-)

In another category a colleague of mine recommended a tool called Jing, which makes it possible to do short screencasts and either download them or upload them to a server and get a link that you can then pass around. Its actually just what I need in most cases when  need to show how a customer how to perform a task and it is hard to explain in words.

In the utilities category I was also recommended a tool that takes news pages that don't have rss feeds and actually exposes them as an rss feed anyway. The tool which is called feedity is not 100% all the time, but it actually does a pretty good job.

Last but not least I have a short list of podcasts that I listen to, and that I will highly recommend. They all publish casts pretty frequently, and all do a good job conveying discussions about what is happening in .NET

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