Contents tagged with ALT.NET
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 4/27/2010 – What has Mono done for the .NET developer lately?
As of late I haven’t posted the DC ALT.NET meetings here and instead have kept them to the Yahoo Groups mailing list. But this month’s topic is worth sharing in that we’re going to cover everything Mono related with a member of the Mono Team, Jackson Harper.
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET: 2/24 - Getting the Right System with George Dinwiddie
The next DC ALT.NET meeting is taking place on 2/24/2010 from 7-9PM. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more information as it becomes available. In this meeting, once again we have George Dinwiddie, to give a talk on talk in the language of the business and what tools along the way can help us. Below is a description of the event. We hope to see you there!
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 - Clojure
The next meeting of DC ALT.NET will be held on January 27th from 7-9PM on Clojure with Craig Andera. Previously, he gave a talk about spending some time in Common Lisp and some of the lessons learned during his adventures. You may have noticed a lot of talk around this language, especially in the Java community. Where trends are concerned, momentum has shifted from Groovy to Scala and now to Clojure just in terms of sheer interest. It’s one that’s on the top of my list to dive deep into this year. So, what is it and what should we care?
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir
As a group, we’ve been focusing a lot on technology on such things as JavaScript, MongoDB and so on. This month, I’d like to take a step back as a group and instead focus on some soft skills. When I started this group back in 2007, I had the idea that this group would help others not only become better technologists in a wide array of technologies, but also better teachers as well. On November 24th, we have Jeff Casimir to help us understand how to become a better teacher with his presentation “Stop Talking, Start Teaching: 5 Rules for Successful Presentations and Demos”. Listed below are the details:
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 10/22/2009 – MongoDB with David James
This month DC ALT.NET will once again move into the not often covered subjects in the .NET world, in covering MongoDB with David James. Stay tuned to the mailing list for up to date details. There has been a bit of discussion around non relational databases lumped under the name of NoSQL, especially given the upcoming NoSQLEast conference. This meeting, we'll dive into MongoDB, one of the NoSQL solutions.
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 9/10/2009 – Webmachine with Kevin Smith
This month, DC ALT.NET is moving the meeting a little forward this month and teaming with NOVALANG and the Erlang Users of Arlington/DC to talk about the Webmachine REST Toolkit. We at DC ALT.NET continue to strive to push developers to look outside their normal surroundings and comfort zones and this month is no different. Details are below:
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth
Following last month’s great presentation by Chris Williams on Naked JavaScript, we’re continuing our dive into JavaScript, and we continue this time with a look into jQuery UI. This month, we have Richard Worth, the Release Manager for jQuery UI, to talk with us about both jQuery UI and the jQuery UI CSS Framework. Below are the details:
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript
After diving headlong into to our back to basics series on TDD, Refactoring, Pairing, and BDD, I thought we’d take a little break and dive into another area that I’m passionate about, JavaScript. Too many times does this language get dismissed as a toy language and that only script kiddies write it. In fact, some very interesting things are happening in the JS world that were highlighted at the recent JSConf 2009 here in the Washington, DC area. For the next two months at least, we’re going heads down JavaScript and then possibly more.
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 6/10/2009 – Evan Light on BDD
The June installment of DC ALT.NET will be on June 10th, 2009 from 7-9PM. Stay tuned to our mailing list to stay up to date with the happenings of the group. We’ve moved up the schedule just a little bit to accommodate our presenter, who will be attending Ruby Nation later that week.
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 5/27/2009 – Introduction to Pair Programming
The DC ALT.NET group is continuing the back to basics approach with this month covering an introduction to pair programming. It’s part of our commitment to the community to encourage such practices as in our previous sessions on Test Driven Development and Refactoring. This month is no exception in pair programming and why two heads are better than one.