I like VAN meetings, and I believe I am gaining a lot from them. Due to some time zone problem, I remember waiting 1 hour in front of the PC :) I had even plans for presenting something on those VANs but nah things don’t go like the way I want. Zachariah Young informed me that there are 2 VANs in the following two weeks that cover some topic on Castle. I believe it would be a good idea to join to those meetings, even if you’re using some other framework or don’t use anything at all.

Ryan will be doing a two part series on the Castle Project.  Mark your calendar for some Castle Project fun.

A little information on Ryan Svihla
Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio since September 2007. Before that he worked as  a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for 3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of course C#.  Attemping Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus on making programming more useful and relevant for the end user.

IoC and Dip through Castle Windsor
I assume readers have some familiarity with IoC and DI, so I skip description
Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Web, July 1, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Web, July 1, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Web Development with Castle Monorail, Active Record and Brail view engine
Have a look at the first popular MVC  .Net based web framework. Also will be covering persistance with ActiveRecord, and view templates using Brail.  Bonus, will demo a plugin framework for building CMS like applications.
Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

For more info on VAN go to www.virtualaltnet.com

I’ll try to join those, see you there!