Creston Masters 2022 sees Oliver Hall reaches Diamond Crestron Master Programmer status

Last week was a busy one over in Orlando with the return of Crestron Masters in person for the first time in three years! Oliver (our MD) flew out on Friday to help with the set-up and to prepare for the workshop that he was delivering on Test Driven Development alongside Toine C. Leerentveld, Yuri Staal, Christopher Tatton and Andrew Mossberg.  The goal of the session was to present a way of thinking about software development from an angle that many programmers may not have considered before, in order to improve software design and quality.  It included a hands-on C# workshop, applying the principles of “Test Driven Development” to a typical (if a little contrived!) AV challenge that directly applies to the Crestron environment. In addition to focusing on C#, there was also discussion around how the techniques could be applied to SIMPL Windows and SIMPL+. The final part of the workshop covered tools and techniques for automated end-to-end testing through the actual User Interface.  If you missed the session you can find out more information from Crestron’s TrueBlue Support – Answer ID 2015.

After an exciting start, Oliver was then able to join in with other sessions and particularly enjoyed hearing Crestron CEO, Dan Feldstein, giving his thoughts and aspirations for where Crestron is now heading.  The week ended on a high with Oliver, alongside  Jeremy Weatherford, Dean Bayley, Brian Allen, Richard Noullet, and Johnny Wang receiving their CMP Diamond certification – congratulations!

Finally, an enormous thank you to Richard Sassoon and the team of behind-the-scenes helpers who made Crestron Masters 2022 such a huge success!  We’ll see you (a little closer to home) in Madrid in May 2023.