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In this month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting we will be taking a look at Apache CouchDB . I quote from the official site: Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional...
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Here are two user group events that are happening soon and that I'm directly involved. July 8 th , Chicago ALT.NET 0-60 With Fluent NHibernate See the full description of the session over at the Chicago ALT.NET home page. We will have Hudson Akridge tell us all about Fluent NHibernate , a project...
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Next Chicago ALT.NET meeting will bring a practical look at F#, showing that it does not need to be seen as a niche language. F# Outside the Lab 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm It seems that almost every time we hear about F# being used it is always in a experimental setting or in a niche application...
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UPDATE: Steve has published the video of the presentation . There are still a few seats left for the next Chicago ALT.NET meeting. The meeting is on April 8 th and we will have a demonstration of FitNesse by Robert Martin. FitNesse is used by many people for acceptance testing and many in our group wanted...
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Here's my small contribution to the current avalanche of Uncle Bob references in the .NET world. This video was recorded at the February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. This is the presentation that he will be giving as a keynote speech at the SD West conference next month. The Q&A...
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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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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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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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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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The Chicago ALT.NET crowd will be meeting on June 11 th . This time we have a new location with the space graciously offered by ThoughtWorks . You can register and get more information about the event at the link below. If you haven't been to one of our meetings yet, you should know that this is...