James Gregory

“I don’t have enough free time to learn a new language!”, or tool, or framework, etc. I hear this often. I appreciate we all handle things differently, but here’s my take on it.

Rhino Licensing is an open-source licensing framework by Ayende Rahien, and it grew out of his frustration with other license providers while creating NHibernate Profiler.

NDC 2010 was a huge success, if you ask me. This was largely down to the NDC team, who deserve all the praise they’re getting (and much more). Unlike conferences I’ve been to in the past, NDC was truely by the people, for the people. Scott Bellware put it much better than I could, with his praise for Norwegian Developers (and Kjersti Sandberg). Herself and the rest of the team were there because they wanted to be, not because they had to. The whole attitude surrounding this conference was one of learning, not plugging products or motives.

In an attempt to get out of my shell more this year, I’ve taken up speaking (at conferences, not just in general). First came my Git E-VAN, then came Pablo’s Fiesta, so what else have I got lined up this year?

Last monday (8th of Feb) I did an E-VAN on Git; an introductory talk on Git and DVCS, covering pretty much everything you need to know for day-to-day Git life. I think it went down well, certainly didn’t hear anyone complaining.