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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Several months ago a few people started hosting a Virtual ALT.NET meeting right here on the information super highway. I've been to a few and they're always packed with information and good conversation. It's a great way to learn new things or show off cool stuff you've been working on...
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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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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...
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Continuing with our back to basics series which started last month with an introduction to Test Driven Development, this month we are covering Refactoring. The discussion will be led by George Dinwiddie , a software development consultant, coach and a found of Agile Maryland and the Maryland Chapter...
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James Avery just posted a podcast that he & I recorded a couple weeks ago on the state of ALT.NET. To be very clear, this was intended to be a rebuttal to the previous podcast with Scott Bellware . Scott did irreplaceable service in the early days of building the ALT.NET community, but at this point...
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Well, I will be – just as soon as my flight actually arrives. What was originally set to be a 12:00 PM departure now looks more like 4 PM. It’s not the end of the world, but with the time change, this means that I’ll be getting in closer to 11 PM – and I was hoping to get to spend a little...
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The March meeting for DC ALT.NET will be on March 25th from 7-9PM EDT. Check the our mailing list for continuing updates and future meetings. This month we have Jonathan Cogley providing an introduction to Test Driven Development. This session will walk through a real-world problem...
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Several months ago, Justin Wilcox introduced me to the idea of a live programming contest. The basic idea is that you get a bunch of programmers together, form teams of two if you wish, and set them off to write a bot for some sort of game (think Rock, Paper, Scissors) with the ultimate goal of them...