--- title: "altnet (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." 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/" --- # altnet (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet · 17 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [ALT.NET Israel – Meeting II 2d and 3rd of April](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/17/altnet-israel-meeting-ii-2d-and-3rd-of-april.md) (2009-03-17): YOU CAN NOW REGISTER HERE I’ll just repost this in Hebrew: בשעה טובה ומוצלחת אני שמח לבשר על כנס alt.net israel השני מיקום הכנס : כמו בפעם שעברה, יתקיים הכנס בבית קבוצת סלע בבני ברק, ליד קניון אילון. תודה לאנשי קבוצת… - [Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/1/altheros-shanselman-benscheirman.md) (2009-03-01): In case you didn’t realize this, whoever Scott Hanselman’s manager is = you should give Scott a raise. He just made ALT.NET fun for people 6000 miles away using Kyte.com, a laptop and a buggy camera. Thanks for being an… - [ALT.NET Israel Wrap up](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/12/altnet-israel-wrap-up.md) (2008-08-12): 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… - [ALT.NET Israel registration is open](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/7/14/altnet-israel-registration-is-open.md) (2008-07-14): The registration for ALT.NET Israel is now open . You will need an OpenID (I use myopenid.com) to register. We are limited to 50 seats for the first event. First come first served. Worst case scenario you go into the… - [ALT.NET Israel - August 7th-8th 2008](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/7/13/altnet-israel-august-7th-8th-2008.md) (2008-07-13): I'm really happy to announce that we are going to have a small (30-70 people) ALT.NET Open Space event in Israel. The full details can be seen on Ken Egozi's blog . Ken is the one who drove Oren and myself into finally… - [Don't miss out on Spec#](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/4/29/dont-miss-out-on-spec.md) (2008-04-29): Hey , you decision makers up there at Microsoft. Maybe you didn't realize this, or maybe you're waiting for the community to let you know. Spec# is one awesome project that needs to become a real product. It allows one… - [About the ALT.NET mailing lists](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/1/3/about-the-altnet-mailing-lists.md) (2008-01-03): What he said . - [Basic Guidelines for using RowTest and data driven tests](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/12/18/basic-guidelines-for-using-rowtest-and-data-driven-tests.md) (2007-12-18): I took a look at the code that was used to create the NUnit RowTest Extension (which is pretty neat) and found this in one of the samples: The highlighted areas in the code show something which I feel is problematic and… - [ALT.NET Purse Fights Blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/12/18/altnet-purse-fights-blog.md) (2007-12-18): Yep. Weird name. This blog captures some of the egos and internal rumblings going on at the ALT.NET mailing list. I'm mostly a spectator these days but the blog is a great way to have a roundup that won't take you all… - [Mocking LINQ Queries, Extension methods and Anonymous Types](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/17/mocking-linq-queries-extension-methods-and-anonymous-types.md) (2007-11-17): One of the things I wanted to show at my Interactive session on unit testing tips and tricks at TechEd this year was how you can "Stub" out results from LINQ Queries, or mock\stub Extension methods in .NET 3.5 ( what's… - [My homework for the next year](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/26/my-homework-for-the-next-year.md) (2007-10-26): Here are the things that are burning in my head these days, screaming at me to go through them and grok them to a point where I don't feel stupid talking about them too much: NHibernate+ ActiveRecord and LLBLGen Try to… - [What's IoC good for, Really?](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/25/whats-ioc-good-for-really.md) (2007-10-25): Oren has one of the best one liners about the benefits of Inversion Of Control Containers in a project in this post : "Other people on my team keep adding components, and they aren't even aware that they have IoC there.… - [The ALT.NET Mailing list is a great place to have a conversation](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/21/the-altnet-mailing-list-is-a-great-place-to-have-a-conversat.md) (2007-10-21): This is how much conversation there is on the ALT.NET Mailing list in the past couple of days: Very good content, great people. It's been a while since I've had a list keep me so busy so long. - [Organization Problems - Sounds Familiar?](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/18/organization-problems-sounds-familiar.md) (2007-10-18): I just finished a summary of a company's review about work modes and problems before we can start doing something about it. I'm posting part of it as anonymous because I think this seems to relate to many other… - [ALT.NET == Pragmatic.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/10/altnet-pragmaticnet.md) (2007-10-10): During the ALT.NET conference people were clamoring for a different name simply because it creates lots of confusion and some people think it's divisive. I'm not sure about that, but I went ahead and proposed the name… - [Database and data layer testing techniques at ALT.NET - slides and code](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/10/database-and-data-layer-testing-techniques-at-altnet-slides.md) (2007-10-10): I contributed some material to the session about Database and data layer testing techniques at ALT.NET. The slides and code I used at ALT.NET are the same ones I used at DevTeach, so you can download them here . - [ALT.NET - Rule of Tool Composition](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/8/altnet-rule-of-tool-composition.md) (2007-10-08): There is much discussion about What ALT.NET really stands for. Most of the things discussed were very "fluffy" in their description and mostly meant some state of mind and openness. Here's another possible explanation:… --- ## 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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