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   Introduction
      ALT.NET Retrospectives (What's Good)
      ALT.NET Retrospectives (What's Bad)
      Unit Testing and Continuous Integration
      Agile Databases
      Design
      Pairing

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Introduction

This contains links to various topics, grouped by some form of a category. Articles here are either local (written specifically on this wiki site) or links to blog entries by people in the ALT.NET community.

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ALT.NET Retrospectives (What's Good)

Articles and blog entries about the ALT.NET community in general.

ALT.NET Should Be Divisive, But Not Contrarian (Phil Haack)
Phil responds to Sam Gentile about Sam's dissatisfaction about ALT.NET re-emphasizes the goals and principles behind ALT.NET.

The Hitchhikers Guide to ALT.NET (Chris Chapman)
Chris gives an overview of ALT.NET, the conference, and some links about ALT.NET.

ALT.NET isn't completely baked and there's nothing new here... (Jeremy Miller)
In reality, ALT.NET isn't the silver bullet or great new thing that nobody thought of before. It's a means to mainstream existing techniques and help us write better systems. Jeremy Miller goes into details about this and brings things back down to Earth a little.

ALT.NET Recap: It's the Values, Stupid! (Jeremy Miller)
Jeremy brings ALT.NET back to reality with focusing on the values, principles, and themes around ALT.NET and not the tools and technologies.

altnetconf - Alt.Net kicks off with clarification of "What is Alt.Net" (Jeffrey Palmero)
Jeffrey was in attendance to the AltNetConference in Austin and helps express what ALT.NET is, a value system that encourages the challenging of every assumption we make in software development today.

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ALT.NET Retrospectives (What's Bad)

There is always a balance in the universe and everyone's got an opinion. Here's the flipside of ALT.NET and their take on what it's all about.

Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET (Sam Gentile)
Sam rings in with his distaste for the ALT.NET movement and feels there's nothing new in the ALT.NET world that he hasn't already been and done. Also please read Sam's follow-up here.

Abandon ALT.NET (Colin Ramsay)
Colin believes ALT.NET is cliquey and the members think too highly of themselves. In his follow-up, he also talks about preaching to the choir.

Alternative Rock (Frans Bouma)
The ALT.NET message is unclear at best and the name doesn't help. Frans weighs in on this and the lack of guidance in the ALT.NET community.

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Unit Testing and Continuous Integration

Qualities of a Good Unit Test (Jeremy Miller)
Bad tests are self defeating

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Agile Databases

Database per Developer and Environment (Jeremy Miller)
A lot of people disagreed with this, or felt that this was infeasible, but test database contention can more or less eliminate the usefulness of automated testing and Continuous Integration

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Design

Leaky Abstractions and the Last Responsible Moment for Design (Jeremy Miller)
I had a reputation (partially earned) at my previous employer for over designing. The most important lesson I've learned over the last three years is how to delay technical design decisions until a more appropriate time.

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Pairing

How to Pair in your Pajamas (Kyle Baley)
Kyle gives some experience of working in the Bahamas while coding for clients around the world.

Pair Programming Braindump (Jeremy Miller)
Some of us have to change our coding habits to make it work.

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