I’m very satisfied of the day, the number of partecipant is growing and we were in 70, the multi-disciplinar sessions are very interesting and the interactive way of doing them drag the people attention.

A lot of posts were already written about the day here  (only one in english):

jacopo: http://jfranzoi.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/about-how-pleasant-a-saturday-can-be/

alessandro: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/allePalle_blog/archive/2009/06/28/molto-bene-lrsquoalt.net-conference-di-bologna.aspx

mauro: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/topics/archive/2009/06/29/ugi.alt-conf-recap.aspx

riccardo: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/zanardini/archive/2009/06/29/iv-ugialt.net-conference-ndash-solo-due-cosette.aspx

andrea: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/angellaa/archive/2009/06/28/iv-ugialtnetconf-27-giugno-2009-impressioni.aspx

I would like to thank the guy’s who have managed the logistics of the day, the lunch and the great dinner!  Thanks Andrea Turchi and Martino Vallara!

Last note: the conference room was in a municipal park of Bologna. There we had a room for the conference but a lot Open Spaces was born in the outside park and this was a really nice thing. Here are some photos: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=80754244901.

Me, simone and claudio have already begin to think at the winter edition,  if someone wants to join us with the organization contact us throught the mailing list.

With Alessandro I will present a session on Continuous Integration, a 60 minutes walkthrough on the setup process of a CI Server.

Here you can find the agenda of the days: http://www.agiletestingdays.com/programme.html

I will write more about our session in the next weeks on this blog.

We found that what our users want is this:

_log.Error(“ThisClass.ThisMethod”, ex.Message);

The specification of the caller class and method is convenient to have information about the error location, but writing that string all the time is boring.

Searching in the .NET Class Library I found the class StackFrame that enable the program to access the application stack, so I write this piece of code:

public void Error(Exception ex)
{
     StackFrame sf = new StackFrame(1);
     _log.Error(
         String.Concat(sf.GetMethod().DeclaringType.FullName, ".", sf.GetMethod().Name),
         ex.Message);
}

This method navigate the stack up one level and using the StackFrame extract the caller class and the caller method and write them to the log file.

Maybe many of you already knows the StackFrame class, but the .NET Fx is big and while searching in it you always find something interesting.

I post a question on the blend forum and after a mail to Unni Ravindranathan he have found the solution.

You must open the .csprj file with notepad and add this element as a child of PropertyGroup:

<ProjectTypeGuids>{60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>

Maybe the problem is because the project is quite old and I created it with Visual Studio 2008 without SP1.

We are very satisfied about the collected sessions, 18 proposals on variuous arguments all with something very interesting.

Some of the arguments are: Mono, XNA, Rhino ETL, UIX design, CI, Spring.NET, Scrum, etc…

So now it’s time to vote your five preferred sessions and wait until the 27 June to came to listen and discuss with us.

You can vote here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ugialtnet/surveys?id=12895553 and get more information here: http://ugialt.net/IV_UgiAltNetConf.ashx

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     // [Cut]...various code....
     goto default; //we want it to be added to serverVariables
case CONTENT_TYPE:
     // [Cut]...more code (with some "if")
     goto default; //we want it to be added to serverVariables
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     ParseUserLanguage(variableValue);
     break;
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No words.

First: it is not clear how this two roles are correlated. It’s absolutely false that a good developer will be a good manager.

Second: what make you think that I, as a developer, want to became a project manager? I love my profession, I love develop software and I hate working with project and excel.

I would like that our bosses would give us other path, an alternative to the vertical growth. I would like to have the horizontal growth.

I mean, I would like to have more space to try new practices, to go to the conferences, to buy new books and to learn new technologies.

This would benefit all the company because I would share my know how with other developers and I could give something different to my company.

So, managers out there: think about this!

The course is in two days and will have a practical cut (most of the second day is dedicated to write a real application in TDD).

We will start from Unit Testing, passing through the Mock Objects and Refactoring to arrive to real TDD.

And for the UgilALT.net members there will be a 10% discount.

More info here.