{"id":365,"date":"2006-07-27T06:32:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T05:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2006-08-01T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T20:20:04","slug":"nrw06-conference-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"NRW06 – Conference Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today saw me deliver two sessions at The Community Conference NRW06<\/a> in Dusseldorf. Originally, I was only delivering one session: Test-Driven Development (and Code Coverage). Knowing that speakers occasionally have to cancel or pull out, I offered a second session to cover this eventuality – that session was a re-run of my Managing Iterative Development Using Scrum presentation. The Scrum session enjoyed full attendance – my room was full. The TDD session also enjoyed a large turnout – it was in the keynote speech “halle” so there were some empty seats. I didn’t perform a head count, but I reckon I had 35-40 attendees in both sessions. Not a bad result, although I say so myself. I must have done something right, praise for both sessions from Vinzenz can be found here<\/a>! Vinzenz danke.<\/p>\n

Apart from meeting Dan again (Dan has spoken at DDD community events<\/a> in the past), I was able to catch up with is stage partner Michael Willers<\/a>. But where was Christian Weyer<\/a>? Christian promised me an Indigo t-shirt when he came to Scotland in July 2005…did he cancel his appearance because I was on the same agenda? Had I come to Dusseldorf to “get him”? Had the image of a mad kilt wearing Scotsman put fear in to the heart of Christian?<\/p>\n

Speakers were given these rather cool polo shirts to wear:<\/p>\n

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I particularly liked what was printed on the back of the polo shirts:<\/p>\n

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\nOliver Sturm<\/a> and Stephan Oetzel<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nA roadie waits to be let it…yes, he is wearing a Metallica t-shirt!<\/p>\n

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\nWeather was good – we sat outside<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nCaption contest for the gentleman with the black t-shirt in the middle?<\/strong>
\n— “The invisible beer bottle?”<\/p>\n

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\nCrowd scenes – room 4 was packed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephan writes about NRW06 over here<\/a> whilst announcing the existence of NRW06 – The Movie<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I will post the slides and code in the next blog entry in a few hours time – the demonstrations have a crib sheet, so you should be able to replicate them.<\/p>\n

One thing this event confirmed for me, if you want to learn a language, live the language, immerse yourself in the country that speaks the language. <\/p>\n

Community Rocks! <\/strong> <\/p>\n

NRW07 promises to be a good one!<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: NRW06<\/a>, Dusseldorf<\/a>, Community<\/a>, Events<\/a>, Scrum<\/a>, TDD<\/a>, Code<\/a>, Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today saw me deliver two sessions at The Community Conference NRW06 in Dusseldorf. Originally, I was only delivering one session: Test-Driven Development (and Code Coverage). Knowing that speakers occasionally have to cancel or pull out, I offered a second session to cover this eventuality – that session was a re-run of my Managing Iterative Development … Continue reading NRW06 – Conference Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-developer-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}