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Last weekend I went to the Greater Toronto Software Symposium, part of the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour. It is the first time that they hit Toronto and just to go straight to the point I think it will be a huge success in the years to come. Here are my impressions and my feedback about it.

Marco Abis has published all the stuff related to the Second Italian Agile day. This means that there's also the zip file of all the steps related to my session.

I have collected all the different versions of the code that I was developing during my session, I have cleared them a bit (ie: I have removed insignificant steps, typos, etc.) and I have written a small comment for each step. What I have obtained is a sequence of 49 steps, made by 42 live steps and 7 offline to complete the work. What's interesting is that first file was saved at 3:40:48 PM, while the last file at 4:41:06 PM ==> it means 42 steps in 62 minutes. Steps have not all the same length of course, but I can assure you that there are always less than 3 minutes between one step and the next one.

December Friday 16th we have had our second Italian Agile Day. It was a tough day for me, I had some flu and bad temperature the 2 days before. Luckily, some paracetamol and antibiotics helped me carry on until the end of the day.
I'm really satisfied by this year's edition. Compared to 1 year ago, this year we have had less presentations, no parallel sessions, but more insight and more depth IMHO. I was particularly impressed by Ferrari Racing Development Team and Francesco Cirillo.

On December 16th 2005 there will be the 2nd Italian Agile Day in Milan. I'll make some noise about TDD in the afternoon with a live demonstration called "TDD: how to handle explosive code without being hurt"