Tech-Ed 2006

The final Tech-Ed schedule was released earlier this week. Me and Ernst will be co-hosting two Chalk & Talk sessions this year :

Microsoft Robotics Studio and MSRS Runtime [2006/10/23 16:15-17:15 | 2006/10/24 13:00-14:00]

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics Studio environment include: end-to-end Robotics Development Platform , lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable and extensible platform.

Test Driven Development Discussion [2006/10/23 14:45-15:45 | 2006/10/24 09:15-10:15]

The term TDD have been used very loosely lately to descibe any process containing the term test, even some convoluted processes involving testers and other interesting characters. Join us for a discussion on real TDD like Kent Beck intended it to be :)

Bob Martin sums it up well - “The act of writing a unit test is more an act of design than of verification. It is also more an act of documentation than of verification. The act of writing a unit test closes a remarkable number of feedback loops, the least of which is the one pertaining to verification of function”

These discussions are very informal group discussions and there's no dress code or admission charge.