It's a recurring theme. The relationship between the .Net developers community, the community leaders, Microsoft products, and Microsoft itself is an endless debate. These last couple of weeks I've seen it come back again, strong, with the usual rants, departure notices, and rebuttals (which...
After a successful first Chicago Code Camp last year, we're back to announce the second edition of this unique technical event. The Chicago Code Camp 2 will happen on May 1 st . In this event we are addressing one obvious and recurring feedback: Make it closer to the city . We're thrilled to...
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...
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...