Paul Lockwood and a coyote at Microsoft
Last night was the February installment of the Atlanta Dot Net group, this time featuring
Paul Lockwood giving us a rundown on unit testing. Paul took an interesting approach and rather than just show us a tool and tell us "Unit testing is good" he walked us through nearly 15 years of personal history doing testing and how things have change and improved. We saw several demos of unit testing and code coverage in Visual Studio Team Suite. The presentation was quite good and Paul announced that he's sharpening it up so he can take it on tour to several area code camps in the upcoming months. I'll be honest, I've seen Paul present possibly a dozen times and the improvements he's made in style and presence when in front of a crowd are extremely noticable. Practice really does make perfect and Paul's a perfect case study as to why everyone should try presenting to the user group crowds. It's a great way to build your skills as a presenter. Great job, Paul!
On the way out of the Microsoft building, I saw a coyote walking across the road in Sanctuary park. He (she) walked across the side road the MS building is on, turned right and walked across the main road to stop in the median area and just watch me for a while. I stopped and watched him for a while, until there were cars behind me. He looked like a medium to large size dog with long slender legs, a thin body, grey fur, a long thinish tail pointed down, and pointy ears. Basically, exactly like this:
I didn't have my camera with me or I'd have actual proof (as no one else saw it despite me trying to point it out to the other cars).
I guess we may now know what happened to the wild turkey that used to live in Sancutary Park.