I travelled with a few friends (geeks) to DDD Scotland up in Glasgow last weekend. Having been to DDD South West the previous year, I was aware of the format and looked forward to a day of learning new things and hearing other developer stories.

I wasn’t disappointed I went to the following talks:

From .NET to Rails, A Developer’s Story – Colin Gemmell
I know very little about Rails and Ruby in general, so was keen to see how another .Net developer had got on learning it.

Caliburn Micro: Painless MVVM apps for Silverlight and WPF – Barry Carr
Only really briefly touched Caliburn as the framework I use for MVVM is MVVMLight, but was interesting how it was done. Still not wholly convinced although some of the conventions look great.

Making Crap Code Better – Phil Winstanley
Well I’ve written enough of this type of code in the past. Good entertaining talk.
http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/

Real World SLUT (Silverlight Unit Testing) – Daniel May
I was quite interested to see what this guy said as I have done quite a bit of Silverlight testing. It was refreshing to know the techniques I was using were being used elsewhere – so that felt good!

Produce Cleaner Code with Aspect-Orientated Programming – Gael Fraiteur
Interesting presentation style from the speaker, but was an interesting idea AOP, although would like to have a play around with it before I make any decision on using this kind of techniques. Clever code though!!
http://www.sharpcrafters.com/blog/author/Gael-Fraiteur.aspx

Would like to thank the organisers for a great day. I won another license for Resharper so that was an unexpected bonus!