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The plan for me for July in Lebanon was to consult directly with some of the companies that came to the workshops in May to help them implement Visual Studio Team System. A typical week consulting normally involved: Monday Introduction to Agile development methodologies Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation …
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The local IESC guys and my students have been so welcoming and keep inviting me out to dinner or to bars or to visit various places around Beirut and beyond. I was talking to a student, Walid Chdid, about Baalbek - a town in the Beqaa Valley that has a monster Roman temple that I was very keen to visit. But I'd been …
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They read my email out on .NET Rocks! It's a really good podcast - I always learn something - and often it's the asides that are the most interesting.
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Beirut is deserted. It's a lovely town and I've been asked to stay away from some areas, there is a Hezbollah encampment down by the Parliament which Mohsen and Khalil (my IESC contacts/minders here) drove me past. The environment in Lebanon is difficult. Most of the people I worked with had their major clients in the …
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During the second workshop some fighting broke out up north near Tripoli at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp. From the windows at the training centre we could see helicopters arrive with wounded being met by ambulances. They were flying in and out constantly for most of the week. It seems to be Fatah fighting the …
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The plan for me in Lebanon was to teach 2, week long, Optimizing the Software Development Lifecycle with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System workshops. And then consult directly with some of the companies that came to the workshops - I'd spend a week with these companies either later in the year, June/July. Setting up …
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I've volunteered for the Geekcorps. They're running a project with Microsoft in Lebanon to teach software development best practices to local businesses. My understanding is that the project is aiming to help local businesses recover from the war last year between Hezbollah and Israel. I've been temporarily made a …
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