So for those curious, the Architecture Chat is still going – I know the last post was on February 22nd… apologies for the slackness.

Currently we have been using Google Docs (after the demise of google wave) to arrange the chats, which all the regular folk get invited to (the document that is) – and just announcing the doc on Twitter (follow myself @bittercoder or the hash tag #ArchitectureChat to see announcements of upcoming chats).

If your are a past regular/planning to come along more often in the future – then let me know your email address and I can start inviting you to the google doc as well.

In other news we have also relocated, with the chats now being held at Benediction Cafe, in Newton.   This is proving more Central for everyone, and should mean that people in the CBD can make it along more regularly (walking distance in some cases), plus the coffee is better!

To recap here are all the google docs for this year:

• 26th Jan 2012
• 23 Feb 2012
• 9th March 2012
• 22nd March 2012
• 19th April 2012
• 3rd May 2012 (that’s this week)

The next chat is Thursday this week, hope to see you all there!

Hi All,

We’re having another Architecture Chat tomorrow – 23rd February 2012, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• Webstock recap
• Emotions Engineering
• MongoDB Aggregation Framework
• Java Sucks – Revisited
• 70x Higher Join Perf in MySql?
• OSX Mountain Lion
• log4net strong naming change
• Ayende’s blog post series “Limit your abstractions”
• Asp.Net 4 MVC hits beta
• Amazon Simple workflow (write up on allthingsdistributed)

Topics this week were collected here.

See you tomorrow!

Thanks to every who came to my presentation on "Developing for the Atlassian Ecosystem" today at the Auckland Atlassian User Group - and hope it was useful to you all - I look forward to hearing about the plugins you build in the future :)

For those who are interested, here are the slides from my talk:

Developing for the Atlassian Ecosystem by Alex Henderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Architecture Chat tomorrow, 9th February, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• University 2.0
• Tenzing – Google SQL implementation over top of Map reduce
• Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion
• Farewell Stack Exchange (Atwood stepping out of SO day-to-day)
• UI Bubbles for monotouch
• Trans-cranial direct current stimulation
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352574
• http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=7943
• Actya - a new embedded “CMS” from Martijn Boland (who wrote Cuyahoga)
• F# Project Extender
• Removed unused references from VS add-in

Topics this week were collected on this google doc.

See you all tomorrow!

The First Architecture Chat for the year is on this Thursday, 26th January, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• ZeroMQ
• Bootstrap including a nice article from the boot strap creators.
• “Thats what she said” JS library
• Comparing strings in unit tests
• Code52
• Samsung’s Smart Window @ CES
• Belay – secure web programming framework
• WAT talk
• Another lite NoSql - DynamoDB from Amazon
• BrowserID
• For-if anti-pattern
• DotNet demon

See you all there!

It’s that time again, The Auckland Architecture Chat will be held tomorrow, 11:30am onwards at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Lenses in F#
• Future of JavaScript talk from Yui! Conf 2011
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 is out
• Scala feels like EJB2
• Sql Server Denali (v.next)
• Project Crescent
• Data Explorer
• Scriptus
• JabbR
• Ultimate privacy monitor
• Why have a stack?
• Reflection, performance and runtime code generation
• JSON.Net 4.0 r4
• MagLev 1.0 released

Most topics this week were collected here, and the last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat, Thursday 10th November 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Korma - SQL DSL for Clojure
• Mustache for Java
• Agile - 10 years after
• Autobox - yet another .Net IOC container
• OpenRA - Open source C&C/Red Alert clone in C#
• F#
• F# web sockets
• Fracture IO
• That query language thing I was working on is out now (TQL)
• Java posse had a roundup on interviewing/hiring, some interesting thoughts on true character under pressure etc.
• Make it matter
• Seasteading.. good grief
• Future of interaction design
• CoffeeScript 1.1.3 is out
• The social graph is neither

Topics this week were collected here, and last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat, Thursday 27th October 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features
• Oracle does NoSql too now
• R.I.P
• Steve Jobs
• Dennis Ritchie
• John McCarthy (Lambda The Ultimate has a writeup too)
• Roslyn Project 
• Roslyn Layers
• Roslyn VS Extensions
• SQL Server 2012 announced
• CQRS is too complicated?

This weeks topics were collected here.

See you all tomorrow.

It’s time again for another Architecture Chat, Thursday, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics for this week:

• Node JS
  • C# 5 inspired async/await for node.js
  • node.js is a cancer and straight talk on event loops
  • Porting node to windows discussion on herding code
• Mozilla Web Secure Coding Guidelines
• Google JS test - JS testing framework from Google
• Raven Overflow - Video on building stack overflow clone with RavenDB
• Nugit - Automatically create/publish nuget packages from git repositories
• Dart language discussions
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098435
  • http://requestforlogic.blogspot.com/2011/10/incomplete-by-design-thought-on-dart.html
  • http://blogs.perl.org/users/rafael_garcia-suarez/2011/10/why-dart-is-not-the-language-of-the-future.html
• Dynamic local host on windows phone 7
• SPDY is used by Amazon's Silk browser
  • ..and interesting musings from F5 on what SPDY enabled layer 7 switching looks like
• NoSql and Philosophy / lack of dogma

See you all there!

Auckland Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• RavenDB - Faceted Search
• Reactivity, sync and co-simulation
• Deprecating the Observer Pattern
• Backbone.js
• TodoMVC
• Dehogaflier
• Play 2.0
• .Net 4.5 developer preview
• Dart
• Visual Lang Lab
• Experiences with using
• Backbone.js and Jquery Mobile
• More query language adventures (Lucene as a reporting engine etc.)

For this week, we collected all our topics here.   And last weeks topics and notes were collected here.

See you all tomorrow!