10. What else is there to do in Toronto.

9. You get to see Jean-Paul Boodhoo implement a shopping cart domain model complete with an aggregate root, specification and visitor patterns all with unit tests in less than 30 minutes.

8. If you are lucky you may have a Mad Mexican sighting.

7. Party with Palermo is the hippest party in town.      

6. Advanced screenings to the long anticipated sequel to Brokeback Mountain.

5. Where else can yours truly win a copy Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite.

4. Chances are you won't meet any Java developers.

3. Hundreds of geeks packed into a hotel, need I say more.

2. .NET version of Fight Club, Ted Neward, Oren Eini and Scott Bellware on .Net Rocks.

1. Since it's in Toronto chances are Justice won't be attending.

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Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! 

A few photos I took at DevTeach.

Yours truly with Matt Meleski	Medhat from the .netBC User Group
TVBUG members at DevTeach	GTAEAST members at DevTeach

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You crazy god-damn broad! Just take a look at this mug. Would any of you dames let me get close enough to you to kill you? None of you would, but Goldie... But she only did because she thought I could protect her. And I bet those cops didn't do a damn thing about those other girls, did they? But as soon as they had me for a fall guy they showed up, guns blazing. But they didn't get me and I've been killing my way to the truth ever since. So go ahead, doll, shoot me now, or get the hell out of my way.

I spent most of the three days at DevTeach attending the agile track. I thought I would take advantage of attending sessions that would otherwise not be given at typical user group meetings. I have limited experience with technologies outside of Microsoft. I've made use of NUnit and Rhino Mocks but had no experience with NHibernate, Castle, Tarantino or DBDeploy.NET to name a few.

I was especially pleased to meet and talk with Oren Eini, a member and contributor to many open source projects including NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks. He was gracious enough to help me with a Rhino Mocks problem I was having where I was calling Expect.Call(mIDBConnection.Open()). This line of VB.NET code was causing the IDE to crash and my only option was to exit and restart the IDE. It turns out that there is a bug with the VB.NET compiler and he encouraged me to log the bug with Microsoft. In addition he mentioned that Expect.Call should only be called for methods that return values, that is, in C# non void methods and in VB.NET functions.

I also had the opportunity to talk with James Kovacs and shared university stories, specifically, the pranks I participated in. His presentations on NHibernate and Inversion of Control Containers were excellent. It was great to see a fellow Edmontonian, Donald Belcham. Ok, I only spent one year in Edmonton but I persevered the cold winters and that should be enough to qualify me as an Edmontonian. Donald was also presenting in the agile track. I especially enjoyed his interaction based testing session.

It was a great 3 days at DevTeach. Don forgot DevTeach will return to Toronto in November 2009. 

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Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.

I spent the better part of last week at DevTeach mainly focused on the agile track. It was an incredible conference and I highly recommend it. If you haven't been, then make it so. I believe it will be back in Toronto in November of 2009. If you can't wait then head over to Montreal where I believe it will be held in 6 months time. I'm seriously thinking about attending the Montreal conference. It's been quite some time since I've been to Montreal and I have relatives there that I have not seen for quite some time.

On Monday evening I partied on with Palermo at the famous Party with Palermo. Free drinks, finger food and swag, all for the price of a business card. That's right you heard me a business card got you in. There was even a beer chugging contest with the winner receiving free admission to the  DevTeach. Now that's a bargain!

Ryan Kajiura a friend and fellow TVBUG attendee showed his true colours and was able to consume an entire glass of beer in about 4 seconds and thus won the free addmission to DevTeach. There was no official timing but whatever time it took it was the fastest amongst the contestants. Congratulations Ryan! After his win I asked him how he felt and he responded by saying "my university education finally paid off". I even got a close up photo of Ryan's triumphant win.

Another skill to add to Ryan's CV.

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And now, folks, it's time for "Who do you trust!" Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money.