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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting . This first video is the Cruise presentation.
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...
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...
Chicago ALT.NET meets this Wednesday, July 9 th again at ThoughtWorks . You can register and get more information about the event at the link below. Mock Objects In Practice 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm This month's topic is Mock Objects, or simply "mocking". The agenda to...
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...
Last night we had the monthly meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. After a few social/networking and group planning events, this was our first content-bearing event. We had the pleasure of having Dan Sniderman come and talk about his experience with TFS and how we can build a Continuous Integration...
ALT.NET Conference, take two. When I signed for this conference for the second time I didn't honestly think it was going to be as good as the first one. Boy was I wrong. I got the feeling that the attendees came incredibly prepared. Prepared to stand up and voice their opinions instead of simply...