I'm back in India again after a 10-day trip to Europe for XP2004. It feels weird coming back -- everything feels familiar and strange at the same time. Being back in the West, I recognised some of the things that I miss being out here (like peace, quiet, and easy access to nature). Oh well, I guess you can't have it both ways.
The conference itself was great. It was wonderful to reconnect with many of the people that I met at last year's conference. The location was scenic and unlike last year, there was a central venue for everyone to meet and socialise. I presented my "Scaling Continuous Integration" paper which seemed to go over quite well. It did provoke a fair bit of debate and excitment after the session. I tried a bit of a different presentation approach by using a sequence of System Thinking Effects Diagrams to illustrate my ideas. I think everyone was sick of text-filled slides by this point, so this approach was a welcome alternative.
I've finally gotten around to make the 1.1 release for NMock. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmock. It contains a number of bug fixes that were made subsequent to the 1.0 release. A zip containing the source is also available for download. The web site (nmock.org) is still weak on content and I doubt that I'll have much time to get stuff up there considering how busy I am with CCNet, and how badly I've neglected FAT. There's some more NMock material available on confluence for those looking for a quick tutorial: http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/nmock/Home.