Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just stitch pieces together) I'll make it available...

I have a friend that is very much into Design Patterns and wanted to learn Ruby with a more applied perspective of the language. I went the exact opposite direction. I know a little bit of Ruby already and I wanted to improve my limited patterns knowledge. What we had in common is that we both picked...

I finally carved up some time and watched the first episode of Steve Bohlen 's Summer of NHibernate . These are sessions that Steve recorded for his team's Dine and Discuss events and he was kind enough to share with the entire community. Steve undoubtfully knows his stuff and how to explain...

I just finished reading Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and it only took me a few hours to go through it this weekend. This is a short and delightful read. The book has not been released in print yet and I read it via O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf, which will be the subject of...