Interesting Bits

Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice

I am proud to announce that Jim Shore and I were awarded the first two Gordon Pask awards for our contributions to Agile practice. I know Jim best for his tremendous background work (or so it seems -- he's not the kind of spotlight hog that I can be) in uniting the Fit community and aligning the various versions of the product. Jim is certainly the sort of person I would want to work with before I hang up my keyboard.

The Agile Alliance has recognized me for my traffic on the various Yahoo! groups (junit, testdrivendevelopment and extremeprogramming), for JUnit Recipes, for organizing XP Day North America and overseeing the tutorials at Agile 2005. I thanked the audience Thursday night, but I'd like to thank everyone in the Agile community for giving me space to try to help. I'm glad to have been of some service.

Brian Marick describes the award here.

Slides from Agile 2005: Intro to Test-Driven Development

You can download the slides from my Agile 2005 presentation Intro to Test-Driven Development by going to the Speaking Engagements section of this site. Thank you to all those who attended. I hope you found it useful and I'll be around to answer questions until Friday morning. After that, you can always ask questions at the various Yahoo! groups including testdrivendevelopment and junit.

Second print run for _JUnit Recipes_?

If you don't yet have a copy of JUnit Recipes and are having trouble ordering it, my publisher is currently deciding whether to print more copies. If you'd like to voice your opinion, or you're looking to buy in volume (say, for a course you're teaching), try e-mailing the business manager. Thanks so much for your interest in the book!

See you in Denver!

I'll be at Agile 2005 this week, speaking twice and generally making sure tutorials come off without a hitch. If you're planning to attend, look out for me and say, "Hello!" Better yet, come to my tutorial Test-Driven J2EE. If you have a copy of JUnit Recipes you'd like signed, I'll be happy to do that, too.

See you then!

Join us at XP Day DC!

XP Day DC 2005 will be held at the offices of Digital Focus in Herndon, Virginia, USA on September 24, 2005. For more information, visit this site. Register and join us today!