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May 4, 2007

After reading this post from David Laribee, I promptly put the four criteria to be an ALT.NET developer on our team portal.

1/ You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way.

2/ You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc.

3/ You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc.

4/ You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principals and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principals (e.g. Resharper.)

Are you ALT.NET?

If you and your team want to learn more about how to write maintainable unit tests and get the most out of TDD practices, make sure to have look at our trainings and workshops or check out the books section. Feel free to reach out at infonull@nullprincipal-itnull.be.

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Jan Van Ryswyck

Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m a professional software developer since Y2K. A blogger since Y2K+5. Provider of training and coaching in XP practices. Curator of the Awesome Talks list. Past organizer of the European Virtual ALT.NET meetings. Thinking and learning about all kinds of technologies since forever.

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