Kaizenconf Part 3 – Taking Action

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:

The last day of the conference was all about taking action as a community. Which actions should be taken based on the open-space sessions of the day before? I attended the ESB Patterns session which mostly handled actions for the MassTransit open-source project. Again, the notes of the other “action” sessions are available on the wiki.

I gained a lot of new insights from being at this conference and I realized that I need to learn some more. I know that its kind of early for New Year’s resolutions, but I want to put out a number of actions for myself.

Learn more about ESB/integration patterns. Diving into the code of MassTransit and NServiceBus will probably give me more insights.
I need to get up to speed on web development really soon. I finally need to be proficient at JavaScript, CSS and jQuery.
On the programming language front, I need to get back to Boo and want to add Ruby and F# to my tool belt.
I’ve been a fervent user of Castle Windsor for my IoC needs, but I also want to take a look over the fence by leveraging StructureMap because I have the feeling that I’m missing out on some cool stuff.
Determining which NHibernate contrib projects can be useful, like NHibernate Search, NHibernate Burrow, NHibernate Caching, etc. ….
And last but not least, improving on my development methodologies by learning more about Lean, Kanban, the Toyota Way, etc. …
Further improving my DDD and BDD skills.

I know that this is very ambitious, but hey, it’s my list. I hope that I can look back at this post next year while having learned and accomplished most of the items on this list.

I want to round of this post by saying kudos to Scott Bellware, Dave Laribee and all other attendees for a wonderful learning experience.

Also a special thanks to Michael , Conrad and the other guys for driving and letting me and Peter tag along.