Last Saturday there was the winter edition of the Italian ALT.NET conference. The 5th edition. It was a great day, with more the 130 participants, 20 sessions about DDD, BDD, TDD, SQL and NO-SQL Database, REST, Dynamic Languages, agility, Refactoring, #Architecture, Mock Objects, HTML5, iPhone, Monotouch, JQuery and many more themes.

One of the aspects that characterize the ALT.NET conference is the high level of the sessions (there was no entry level sessions) and the high level of the attendees. In every session that I followed there were always a discussion on the topic and the speaker leaves the attendees speak and tell their opinion so that everybody can learn from the others. Most discussion has continued in the hall and in the others rooms available for open spaces.

For me, Simone and Claudio it was an hard day dealing with the organization, but most attendees help us when needed, so my thanks goes to all the people that help us yesterday.

Other thanks to the speakers, most of them came from other cities, Hadi and Chris from another country. Thanks for coming.

Finally the donors, this year we collected money from donors that gave us something to cover the costs. It went great. With the donations we cover all the costs and we have more money for the next edition (june? july?).

I’m really happy, in 3 year we built a .NET community that is not tied to the .NET framework but is interested in all the technologies that helps the developer to build better software.

Here are some photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/diegoguidi/Milano23012010

In the next days we will publish the slides and demos from the presentations.