Things have been unfortunately quiet on this blog lately, as I’ve been too busy with other engagements this fall to spend much time blogging. Hopefully I’ll be able to make amends for that this Christmas as things quiet down for the holiday season – so please don’t unsubscribe from my feed quite yet :-)

Until then, if you’re in Bergen this week be sure to drop by the local NNUG meeting on Wednesday where I’ll be giving a presentation about ASP.NET MVC 2. Details are here (in Norwegian).

Creating sketches of user interfaces and user interactions on paper (or a whiteboard etc) has been a trick of the trade for both designers and usability experts for decades. Of course, us computer geeks have often opted to use PowerPoint, Visio or even the WinForms designer in Visual Studio to digitalize this process. Lately however, we've seen more specialized tools emerge, like Balsamiq Mockups and the forthcoming SketchFlow in Blend 3.

At the next NNUG meeting in Stavanger, on the 10th of June, I'll be giving a lightning talk about digital paper prototyping, looking at different ways to make such prototypes and what the benefits of doing them are.

Also at this event, MVP Lars Wilhelmsen will be talking about the Oslo platform, Glenn Henriksen about mocking in unit tests, and Niall Merrighan about avoiding common programming mistakes.

Balsamiq has also been kind enough to donate a licence for their Mockups tool, which we'll hand out to one lucky, random attendee - so head over to the NNUG site to sign up now!

Below are the slides from the Test Driven DevelopmentDesign talk I held at NNUG Stavanger last night. Thanks to everyone who attended, it was a great event!

Like I mentioned during my talk, many of the slides contain interesting links at the bottom to great blog posts/articles that are worth checking out if you want more details. You can also have a look at the tdd, bdd, agile and design patterns tags in my blog archive for further reading.

On Wednesday the 19th of November (yeah I’m a bit late to blog about it, sorry!), we’re hosting another Vestfold .NET User Group meeting. This month, Tore Vestues will be talking about the Boo programming language and language/compiler extensibility, and after a break with some pizza and small talk, Gøran Kvarv will give a presentation about Windows Presentation Foundation and why you should choose it over Windows Forms.

We’re moving to a new venue this time at Torp IT. Also, since I’m moving to Stavanger soon, this is going to be the last Vestfold user group meeting I’ll be involved in putting together. It’s been a fun three years, and I hope I’ll be able to return in the future as a guest speaker or just a regular attendee whenever I’m in the neighbourhood.

For more information and to sign up, head over to the NNUG event page.

We’re having another Norwegian .NET User Group Vestfold meeting in October; on Thursday the 9th of October to be exact. Objectware’s Einar Ingebrigtsen will be talking about Silverlight 2, explaining why we should all jump on the bandwagon with him and bask in the glory of Rich Internet Applications.

Doors open at 5pm, and as usual there’ll be a break in the middle with delicious pizza and small talk. If you plan to attend, please remember to sign up.

Signup and more information can be found over at the NNUG website.

See you there!

I probably should have blogged about this earlier, but you know how it goes - work taking up too much time and blah blah... ;) Anyways, tonight we're hosting another .NET user group meeting, and this time we're opening with a session on Jetbrains TeamCity, a tool with lots of continous integration and build features that integrates nicely with several environments including Visual Studio and TFS. One of my favorites, is its ability to verify that a checkin compiles and passes all unit tests on the server, before accepting it.

After that, we'll have some pizza and mingle for a bit, and then get back into the thick of it with a look at Windows Server 2008 and in particular IIS 7.0.

Oh yes, and the prizes you can win! Like every month, we're giving away a license for Jetbrains Resharper to one lucky atendee - but this month we've not only got that, but also a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate to give away.

So make sure to drop by if you can; doors open at 5pm, and entrance is free as always. All the details are here.