I haven't mentioned our meetings here in a while but our group has been going strong and enthusiastic all this time. Tomorrow, March 10 th our topic will be build scripts for .Net projects using Rake and Albacore. I've been using Rake and a little bit of Albacore in my own projects and I'm...
There ALT.NET bashing season is on full steam. Ian Cooper has a thorough post about it. To my recollection, ALT.NET was formed by people that shared very similar tastes on what represents good development tools, practices, and methodologies. This group of people, just by the simple fact that they decided...
I’m currently reading Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles . As the title suggests, it deals with certain fundamental differences in the way we see the world and how that affects our political views. Don’t worry, I’m not going to delve into politics in the...
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...
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...