XPDay Review

On Thursday and Friday of last week I showed up at XPDay, and attended some cool sessions including:

Nat Pryce on TDD of async code: http://www.natpryce.com/articles/000755.html

Matt Wynne on Lean Engineering: http://blog.mattwynne.net/2008/12/14/slides-from-xp-day-talk/

Had some interesting discussions with some cool people including:

http://gojko.net/tag/xpday08/

So, I was interested in Gojko Anzic's open space session on the new Fitnesse SLIM implemenation. It looks like it's much, much easier to wrap domain objects instead of creating fixture classes for testing. It's not quite ready yet, but I'm looking forward to a stable release.

There was also an interesting keynote from Marc Baker of LeanUK.org (http://www.leanuk.org/pages/about_team_marc_baker.htm) on his experiences of introducing lean principles into the NHS.