Javaranch Event

The Big Moose Saloon welcomes writing team Ottinger and Langr to a special event:

This week, we're delighted to have Jeff Langr & Tim Ottinger helping to answer questions about the new book Agile in a Flash. See this page for a description of the book.

The promotion starts Tuesday, February 22th 2011 and will end on Friday, February 25th 2011.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Pragmatic.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Sit in, ask or answer some questions, see if you can't win your free Agile In A Flash deck. If you don't win one, don't worry. We still have a few left for sale.

Sighting Report

From an undisclosed location in Des Moines, Iowa, comes this sighting report. It is likely a book store, judging by intact plastic wrap and "Alphabetical By Author" sticker on shelf. It also looks like they're down to their last copy. Snag it now, before their supply is totally exhausted!

Card-Carrying Mad Railer

David van Leeuwen, Card-carrying Mad Railer, shows off the new deck of Agile In A Flash that he won in a drawing at the Madison, WI conference.

Lisa Crispin and Courage at Belgium Testing Days

Our deck of cards makes a surprise appearance at Belgium Testing Days 2011 thanks to Lisa Crispin and her experience with the Courage card.

It is pleasing to see the cards having a supporting role in the lives of respected professionals, and to see them appear in a testing conference instead of a more predictable place like an Agile or programming conference. Markus Gärtner provides descriptions of several talks in this blog.

Card-Carrying agile author

Jeff Langr, programmer geek and computer addict shows off his Agile in a Flash deck in front of a warm fire in Colorado Springs. Look, Ma, no shrink-wrap! Tim, have you opened yours yet???

Card-Carrying Embedded Software Engineer

Card-carrying embedded-software engineer James Grenning, fellow-author, fellow-ex-ObjectMentor consultant, owner of Renaissance Software, great guy.  Here James shows off his deck of cards at a Starbucks near Mundelein, IL.  Doing embedded software, but don't know how to do it test-first? See James Grenning (and buy his book Test Driven Development for Embedded C to be released very soon).

Card-carrying Rocketeers

Card-carrying Hash Rocket team members show off their deck of Agile In A Flash cards gifted to them at their office in Chicago.  They are a really great, kind, competent group of people worthy of your business. Tim loves their open workspace and open hearts.

Card-carrying Django Developer

Card-carrying Django developer, Cezar Jenkins, shows off the autographed deck he won at the Chicago Python users group meeting. His superior memory allowed him to edge out the other attendees and seize the prize!

Card-carrying Agile Author

Card-carrying agile author and programmer, Tim Ottinger, smugly shows his plastic-wrapped Agile In A Flash deck at home.  Tim is the originator of the Agile In A Flash concept, and co-author of the deck with Jeff Langr (without whom this project would have died on the vine). Feeling smug? You betcha.

Card-carrying software journeyman

Card-carrying software journeyman, Corey Haines, shows off his deck and a broad smile at a Chicago Starbucks outlet.