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Call for speakers ends with a bang!

The Central Ohio Day of .NET is just a month and a half away and today marks the end of the Call for speakers. We had over 194 downloads of the speaker submission for and by my count we had 22 speakers submit a total of 43 topics! That’s great! Over the next week the staff will be going through the submissions and starting the selection process. We should have the results around March 8th or so.

Did you want to go to MIX?

If you were one of the people who wanted to go to the MIX conference, but couldn’t then this blog post by Larry Clarkin is for you. “Five Things to do if You are not Going to MIX” fills you in on how you can “be there” without “being there”. If you aren’t familiar with Larry Clarkin he is a blue badger from the Central Region and one of the hosts of the Thirsty Developer podcast.

.NN#13: Unit Testing Rules From the Rules Engine

Download the Code Sample to follow along if you want. I’ve recently given several talks on the Windows Workflow (WF) Rules Engine and during one of those talks someone asked the question, “So how do you unit test these rules?” At the time I simply said, “wait for the demo I show on using the rules engine outside of workflow”. Later in the presentation I showed a sample of executing rules out side of a workflow and again indicated you could do something like this for your unit testing.