This weekend was DDD South West, part of the ever increasing DDD brand, run by Guy and his crew, who did a most excellent job as usual. Situated at the University of West England in Bristol, we had perfect weather to accompany the great talks, and for once I saw a talk in every slot. I started out with Liam’s talk on software development and how not to go bust, a feat which I’ve barely managed to accomplish. Next was Chris Alcock and reactive extensions; I’d seen Jon Skeet do a talk on this a few weeks ago and wanted...