--- title: "ALT.NET Israel Wrap up" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/12/altnet-israel-wrap-up.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/12/altnet-israel-wrap-up.html" published: "2008-08-12T00:53:01" updated: "2008-08-12T00:53:01" tags: [".NET", ".Net 2.0", "altnet", "altnetconf", "altnetisrael"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "The first Israeli ALT.NET Conference was great and finished without a hitch! Current videos from the (un) conference: Alt.net Israel - Hallway chat - performance Alt.net Israel - Refactoring Alt.net Israel - Distributed…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # ALT.NET Israel Wrap up By Roy Osherove August 12, 2008 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [altnet](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet), [altnetconf](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnetconf), [altnetisrael](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnetisrael) **Historical article** · Originally published August 12, 2008; technical details may be outdated. ![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/a2d872c5_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_thumb.png)The first Israeli ALT.NET Conference was great and finished without a hitch! Current videos from the (un) conference: - [Alt.net Israel - Hallway chat - performance](http://www.viddler.com/explore/ayende/videos/2/) - [Alt.net Israel - Refactoring](http://www.viddler.com/explore/ayende/videos/3/) - [Alt.net Israel - Distributed Caching](http://www.viddler.com/explore/ayende/videos/6/) - [Alt.net Israel - Dynamic Languages & DSLs](http://www.viddler.com/explore/ayende/videos/4/) - [Alt.net Israel - SOA in the real world](http://www.viddler.com/explore/kimajor/videos/3/) - [Alt.net Israel - Closing Talk](http://www.viddler.com/explore/ayende/videos/1/) - [Test Driven Development](http://www.viddler.com/explore/Kimajor/videos/2/) There is also: - Bunch of [photos on Flickr](http://flickr.com/photos/arikfr/sets/72157606676239795/) - [A Facebook group](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22976817716) People are already starting to write about it ([here](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AyendeRahien/~3/360477424/ALT.Net-Israel-Summary.aspx), [here](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/urig/archive/2008/08/09/why-you-want-to-be-a-part-of-alt-net-israel.aspx)) and I'd like to thank everyone who showed up at the ungodly hour of 9 am on a Friday (that's like a Saturday for you Christian heathens). The talks were interesting but for me it was mainly about meeting the people and hanging out with people I feel stupid around. Thanks to [OrenEllenbogen](http://www.lnbogen.com/MicrosoftCCRCleanWayToWriteParallelCodeInNet.aspx) for doing a riveting talk about the [MS CCR runtime](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163556.aspx) . ![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/6a1faea_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_thumb_1.png) Thanks for all the tools people wrote down to recommend: ![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/cda9c3b_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_thumb_2.png) Thanks to our sponsors: [Typemock](http://www.typemock.com/) (for organization and food), [Sela](http://www.sela.co.il/) (for great hosting!), [SQLink](http://www.sqlink.com/) (for great drinks and chicks!), [RedGate](http://www.red-gate.com/) and [Jetbrains](http://www.jetbrains.com/) (for free licenses!) ![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/b1bbae1_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_thumb_3.png)  [](http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/rosherove/WindowsLiveWriter/ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34/image_12.png)[](http://www.sela.co.il/)[![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/373ac8a2_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_21.png)](http://www.typemock.com/)![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/5833dec4_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_22.png) [![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/c5567764_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_25.png)](http://www.sqlink.com/)[![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/e7e4daa9_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_24.png)](http://www.jetbrains.com/) [![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/a44fb071_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_ALT.NETIsraelWrapup_9A34_image_23.png)](http://www.red-gate.com/)    We will be having another one in 6 months or so and might have some "grok talk" meetings during the next months. Thanks again! ## More in .NET [All posts in .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net) - Aug 27, 2008 ### [Visual vs. “Executable” Build Configurations](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/27/visual-vs-executable-build-configurations.html) - Aug 12, 2008 ### [Build and Continuous Integration - Toolgasm achieved](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/12/build-and-continuous-integration-toolgasm-achieved.html) - Aug 3, 2008 ### [VS Addins Revisited: Declarative button order and location with a DSL](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/3/vs-addins-revisited-declarative-button-order-and-location-wi.html) - Aug 3, 2008 ### [Before testing an addin - Reset Visual Studio’s previous addin knowledge](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/3/before-testing-an-addin-reset-visual-studios-previous-addin.html) --- ## 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. 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