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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...
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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...
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Last Saturday I had the pleasure to present a JavaScript talk at the Iowa Code Camp . The talk was Stop Programming JavaScript By Luck and it tries to highlight some of the most puzzling differences from your mainstream programming language (read: C#, VB, Java.) I'd like to thank all that came to...
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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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Later this month I'll be attending the Mozilla Add-Ons Meetup in Chicago. I'm continually impressed with the extensibility of Mozilla applications and the amazing things people are doing with it. I'm interested in both the extensibility model and in writing a few custom extensions myself...
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I finally got around to properly record and publish one of those JavaScript presentations that I have been doing at local users groups. The video and the slide deck are available below. The video And the slide deck. If you prefer, you can download the slide deck .
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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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This Wednesday, June 17 th , the Chicago .NET Users Group, CNUG , has invited me to bring my JavaScript presentation to their monthly meeting. Despite of what the event description might lead you to believe, the talk is hardcore JavaScript, not much specific to Ajax at all, although I believe the material...
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The ALT.NET universe in Chicago gets together again on June 10 th , this time to learn and talk about Git , the SCM you're probably tired of hearing people jabbering about and still have not taken the time to look at. The presenter will be myself and I hope to explain how Git works and how it can...
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I'm heading down to Taunton this Saturday for DDD Sout West ( www.dddsouthwest.com ) where I will have a session (see below). Pop in and say hello if you will be there. Hope to see you there.
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As a brief inspection of your RSS reader will quickly tell you, it's Code Camp season. Not to be left out of this party, the developers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas have a great option this year. The Chicago Code Camp , which happens on May 30th, is strategically located right between these...
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Finally I have some spare time to actually sit down and write something ant even this only because I'm in the 6.48 in the morning train for London and apart of sleeping I have nothing better to do. It's been a while since my last post and I think I lost my blogging commitment somewhere. Assuming...
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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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We're happy to announce the first partial list of talks selected for the Chicago Code Camp . We hope there's a good mix of various different technologies and that it could spark even more interest in the event. There are still a good number of time slots undecided for this event. If you want...
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When I posted a call for a geek get-together over at NerdDinner.com I never thought so many people would RSVP. Now I don't know how many of those are just folks playing with the site and how many really intend to come (some of the user names really look like test accounts) In its current state, NerdDinner...