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The ChicagoAlt.Net group and Lake County .Net UG would like to officially announce the Chicago Code Camp which is slated to come to College of Lake County on May 30th. We are hoping to get more than just the .net community involved, we would love to get sessions from the Java, Ruby or anyone else...
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In the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET users group we will try an Open Space format — or rather maybe I should say a format with some characteristics of Open Spaces given our time and space constraints. If you haven't been to a meeting held in this format, maybe you think this sounds crazy...
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Like so many other people out there I will be packing up and making the trip out west to Seattle for both the Alt.Net conf (Saturday and Sunday only) and the MVP Summit. I am looking forward to this trip for many reasons: Never been to the Emerald City Love meeting all the great people at the alt.net...
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For the past few months a group of us at Codebetter.com , Devlicio.us , IdeaVine (with special thanks to JetBrains ) have been working to create a build system for the .Net open source community. I am happy to announce (here at devlicio.us at least) that as of now it http://teamcity.codebetter...
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Recently I was asked to join the crew (Richard and Carl) on DotNetRocks . We had a great conversation about my learning NHiberante and using FluentNhibernate. We chatted about how learning new tools can be painful, but the pain comes with a good result in the end. If you are interested in...
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After an unfortunate cancelation of our last meeting because of the weather, February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET Group should be a very interesting one. Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin looks into XP's rearviewmirror, lessons learned, and the current status of Agile development. XP:...
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UPDATE: We had to cancel this meeting because of the heavy snowfall forecast. Due to scheduling problems we had to delay this announcement more than we would like to. But we will still have our monthly meeting on Wednesday, January 14 th . Planning for 2009 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm We...
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Next week I'll be speaking at the Lake County .NET Users' Group , in Grayslake, IL. The topic will be something that is near and dear to me and which I have talked and written about quite a number of times. If you live in the North 'burbs, come and support our local group. You can register...
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For this month's of meeting we will be doing something we had been thinking about for a while. With so many members that always bring interesting contributions to our meetings, we will just have an open projector night. I'm looking forward to this one. Lightning Talks 6:00 pm Pizza and networking...
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Well, it is about time we ( Tim , Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC bo ok with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is...
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Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me, please do. Info on the 2 sessions TriNug - Taking...
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It is time for this months installment of Chicago Alt.Net meeting. You can register here and get more information from our new site (thanks Sergio) at www.chicagoalt.net . Meeting Information The Different Views of ASP.NET MVC 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm The default ASPX view engine in...
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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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It turns out the team over in Redmond has decided that the .Net logo needed a little sprucing up. They have put together a pretty slick new logo and it was unveiled at the PDC. The new logo will be referred to as the Wave. Here are a few links that talk about the new logo. Link 1 Link 2 Till next time...
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I want to invite any of you who are within a few hours of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the second Iowa Code Camp on November 8th. The first Iowa Code Camp back in May was a huge success. From Derik's write-up : Yesterdays event was awesome. They had about 125-150 people show up for the...