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Wow, that took a long time to be published, but here it is. This video was recorded during the October's meeting of Chicago ALT.NET that happened almost just about a whole month ago. The video shows Josh Heyse demonstrating and explaining the works of the AOP framework called Core. What the video...
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I'm giving a talk on TDD at our local UG tonight, and under the influence of some recent posts here on devlicio.us, I just finished reworking my presentation. This post is an outline for the first half of my presentation. The Problems Code has entropy. That is over time it deteriorates. At least...
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Yesterday was the first day of the pre-conference workshops at the Kaizen Continuous Improvement Conference . Day two was a bit more invigorating for me since I attended two topics (Opinionated MVC and Fluent API's with C#) which got my head spinning nearly immediately. Both talks were...
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I'm in Austin, Texas for the Kaizen Continuous Improvement Conference this weekend. One of the very cool things the organizers did for this event was offer two days of workshops before the conference. While I'm excited for the conference itself, much of my excitement for the conference...
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One of the reasons I've been mucking with NHaml is the upcoming meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. The plan is to talk about NHaml and Spark (and maybe Brail ), comparing equivalent implementations of a simple website written in ASPX, NHaml and Spark. The meeting is on November 12 th , see registration...
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The October 2008 meeting of out user group will be held next week, Wednesday the 8 th . The chosen topic for this month was AOP . Core: An Aspect Oriented Business Objects Framework 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm Learn about aspect-oriented design patterns and how they can be used to quickly...
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So we've been working on a web project for a friend's startup company (I don't like doing work for my friends, but that's a different matter). Since he has no technological preference and since we are such bleeding edge kinda guys ( the Achilles' Heel of ALT.NET? ), we decided to...
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After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.
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I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.
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Next Wednesday, September 10 th , is the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET user group. This time IoC containers will be the topic du jour . Expect to see an introduction to this technology and learn why IoC isn't just overhead. Don't expect to leave with just another introduction to some technique...
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The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle.
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This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting . This first video is the Cruise presentation.
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Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just stitch pieces together) I'll make it available...
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As you may have heard, ThoughtWorks , home of CruiseControl.net, has just released Cruise , their commercial product for CI and beyond. As soon as we heard that news we immediately thought: It would be great if we had someone from TW give us the scoop on that product — especially considering that...
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by: Darrell Mozingo This post was originally submitted to The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway . December 2006 was a low point. The company had lost some good developers, projects were stalling, morale was low, and the outlook simply wasn't good. It was the usual story, probably heard thousands of times...