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title: "Announcements: Geek Dinner, TDD workshops and upcoming lectures schedule"
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published: "2004-07-08T15:31:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Yes I know. been *real* busy. Hope to get back at you soon soon. Meanwhile, some community stuff I've been wanting to do and some stuff I've been asked to do. Also - I wanted to say thanks for the large amount of…"
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# Announcements: Geek Dinner, TDD workshops and upcoming lectures schedule

By Roy Osherove July 8, 2004

**Historical article** · Originally published July 8, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Yes I know. been \*real\* busy. Hope to get back at you soon soon. Meanwhile, some community stuff I've been wanting to do and some stuff I've been asked to do. Also - I wanted to say thanks for the large amount of congratulations I got on my MVP post. It means a lot to me.

SO, here goes:

You can [download the presentation slides](http://dev.magen.com/Agile/Powerpoint%20Slides/XPAndAgile.ppt) from the last “XP and Agile concepts“ talk I did.

Mind you: this is all in **Israel**.

Announcing: [Geek Dinner codename “Memory Leak”](http://dev.magen.com/Geeks/Lists/Events/DispForm.aspx?ID=2) this month - the 19th

Announcing: [TDD Workshop (beginners):](http://dev.magen.com/Agile/Lists/Events/DispForm.aspx?ID=5) this month - the 28th 

Announcing: [TDD Workshop(Advanced):](http://dev.magen.com/Agile/Lists/Events/DispForm.aspx?ID=6) next month - the 8th

(See the full schedule here: [http://dev.magen.com/Agile/](http://dev.magen.com/Agile/))

Upcoming lectures (more specific information will be posted as the dates approach):

ADO.Net Best Practices and advanced Concepts  (XP talk is being rescheduled)

**When**: 21st of this month 17:30

**Where**: [C# user group](http://www.comconix.com/ivcug/)

**What**:

ADO.Net allows you to do many different things in many different ways.In this talk we'll discuss some of the most recommended ways of doing things, and things you should \***not**\* do as well. Among the topics:

- Data Application Block – features, benefits and usage

- Concurrency Management - handling dataset conflicts

- Performance tips and tricks

- Error Handling

And a few more important and interesting things you should know when going deep into your Data Access Layer.

 **Required knowledge**: ADO.Net basic usage and working experience 

**Regular Expressions Deep Dive**

**When:** 4th of august, 17:30

**Where**: [VB.Net user group](http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug/)

What: 3 hours of working with Regex and showing some absolutely cool stuff you can do with them. Mind opener - guaranteed. Including Regex Groups, replaces and introducing **The Regulator** behind the scenes.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

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