As some of you may know..... and some may not, I have been working with Conchango on a project for the last 9 months. The conchango guys are great to work with, so when they asked if I wanted to attend the Alt.Net conference this weekend (as they were hosting it), I was chuffed as originally I had thought I had missed the registrations.

The conference was broken up over two days. Friday was a meet and greet session in the evening, everyone gets the opportunity to propose a session that they would like covered on the Saturday. I was really impressed with the topics that were up for discussion, my two offerings were "Declarative Programming & Testability" and "Why use ORM".

After filling the whiteboard with post it notes, I was amazed to see just how many where were related to testing and general quality of development. Having defined a rough agenda for the Saturday, everyone headed off to the Bankside bar where we could get to know each other. I couldn't stay too long as getting home takes an hour and half and had been at work all day I was a little shattered.

Over the next week I will be updating you about the sessions I attended and some of the key conclusions I came to. Generally though, I thought the conference was a great success. I got to meet some fantastic people and validate my ideas against others... oh and play a little table football. Many thanks must go to Ian Cooper, Alan Dean and Ben Hall for great organisation.