Architecture Chat this Thursday 26th August – 11:30am – Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics:

• NSubstitute – Another .Net mocking framework.
• More lightswitch discussions (yawn)
• Castle Windsor 2.5
• NHibernate Designer from Mindscape
• RestCake – Yet another REST framework for .Net
• Boat – sinatra inspired web framework for C#
• JQuery Mobile, and Sencha Touch – javascript mobile touch frameworks.
• What would you like to see Microsoft do with IronRuby?

For those people attending the Architecture Chat this week Mindscape have kindly offered to provide licenses of their NHibernate designer tool – more details will be given at the chat.

The wave for this week can be found here – if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also don’t forget that Code Camp is this Sunday, August 29th.  You can see the list of sessions and plan your day on the website here.  It’s bigger and better then ever before this year, so it should be a great event!

See you all tomorrow!

The Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 5th of August 2010, 11:30am, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics for discussion:

• Padrino - Interesting looking ruby web framework built on top of sinatra.rb
• Gerrit - Very interesting code review tool for Git hosted code - from Google. It's what they use for Code reviews on the Android code base. Example site up here - https://review.source.android.com/ CR on DVCS' is kinda tricky - this seems to solve things nicely.
• Apple Unveils New 27-inch LED Cinema Display - USD$999 – that’s actually a good price for a hi res (not 1080p) IPS monitor.  Also phasing out 24” and 30”.
• Microsoft.Data released – and it’s  drawing criticism too.
• Package Management in .Net (Nu)
• ILMerge to the resuce?
• Figment – web DSL for F#
• HQL Language support in visual studio
• Visual Studio LightSwitch
• Akka
• Mirah programming language looks interesting.
• EAV, Document Databases and creating hybrid solutions (or migrating from one to another).

The wave this week can be found here.  If you want to raise topics for next time either email them, start a wave, or post them on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also coming up this month:

• Google bar camp - Saturday 21st August, 2010.  People are still cancelling, so I believe slots are freeing up quite regularly.
• Auckland Code Camp – Sunday August 29th 2010.   Shaping up to be a great event.

See you all tomorrow.

Chat Tomorrow

It’s been a while, but it’s back again – the North Shore Architecture Chat is happening tomorrow (22nd July) – starting at 11:30am.

Location will again be the “New Brew” pub, unless anyone else has a better suggestion.

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Suggested topics for this week:

• Alt.net => No.net - seems like this is an increasing trend.
• http://aspnetresources.com/blog/closing_doors
• http://blog.wekeroad.com/2010/06/21/i-smell-smoke
• http://herdingcode.com/?p=256
• .Net culture shock
• NDC 2010 video - The Next Big Thing Or Cool-Kid Koolaid? Slicing Through The Rhetoric of MVC vs. WebForms.
• Razor - new MS view engine specifically for asp.net MVC - wtf?
• http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-i-love-everything-you-hate-about-java/
• Yahoo Beacon - measure page bandwidth/latency in the wild. YSlow for live websites/clients.
• Webmatrix - how it fits together
• Caliburn.Micro - WPF, Silverlight and WP7 - looking interesting.
• Android AppInventor - It's like scratch for mobile apps.
• Windows Azure Appliance (another link here)
• CodeCamp Registration now open.
• Auckland google barcamp still has a slot free...
• KnockoutJS.
• Eric Sink announces Veracity - a new OSS DVCS (with commercial addon's coming)
• Javascript DSLs
• http://edspencer.github.com/jaml/
• http://github.com/jed/fab

If anyone else has topic suggestions, please leave a comment here – or add them to the list on this public wave.

See you all tomorrow!

Just a quick note – we were due to have an Architecture chat this Thursday, but I’m a little snowed under – so I’m going to postpone it until the following Thursday (22nd July 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park).

We are collecting topics on this wave – feel free to post suggestions on google wave, via email or on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

See you all next week!

- Alex

Architecture Chat tomorrow – Thursday 1st July at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Starting at the usual time of 11:30 am.

Some possible topics for this week:

• NDC2010 content.
• Apple hates left handed people - iPhone 4 antenna issues.
• Another non-sql option - membase.org.
• NetBeans 6.9 released.
• Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" - UI focus/refocus.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab talking about DSL's.
• NPanday 1.2 released (.Net Integration for Apache Maven - yes we can have Maven pain too :)
• Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.1 released.
• Clojure web framework Compojure 0.4 released.
• Keith's SeaTest c unit testing framework.
• Ayende's Challenge: Dynamically Dynamic.
• Silverlight Pivot View now available.
• Modelling Hierarchical structures in RavenDB (or most document databases).
• SilverLight Event Throttling.
• CoffeeScript.
• Introducing IIS Express.
• Squealer - a ruby DSL for ETL-ing mongodb docs to MySql/postgreSql.
• ORM Phase Shift - discussion about Doc databases + squealer + ORM’s etc...
• New Network design could make internet much faster
• Hammett e-van recording - Comparing MEF with IOC Containers.
• Plus all the topics from last time (we didn’t really cover any of them…)

The wave this week can be found here.  If you want to raise topics for next time either email them, start a wave, or post them on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also coming up:

• Wednesday 30th June – 6pm – AucklandSQL meeting - “What’s new in SQL Server 2008 R2”
• Next Thursday – 8th July – 11:30am – North Shore Architecture Chat (Tentatively).
  

After a brief hiatus, the Auckland Architecture Chat is back again.

We will be meeting Thursday 17th June at 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics for this week.

• WebSharper - F# GWT equivalent.
• Awesome barcode hack
• Feature Oriented Solution layout (ala Ayende) - is this the new black for Project structure?
• Salt n Pepper - on corny
• Rest Versioning approaches.
• WiGig spec formalized. (7Gbps wireless networking backwards compatible with wifi).
• MVC Music Store - a new ASP.Net MVC2 sample app. (Let the bashing begin).
• How a Clojure pet project turned into a full-blown cloud-computing web-app - Clojure + GAE experience report – Lisp is finally practical from an infrastructure/hosting/deployment perspective.
• Documents 3.0 - How Wave+Google Docs are the future - Peter - this might be interesting to you specifically - and here's the official announcement.
• Cassandra by example - nice overview of Cassandra using twitter as an example - curious if anyone's had a play with this.
• SerialSeb finally releases OpenWrap - another .net package manager.
• How google builds API's... the templating and API exposure wizard is an interesting approach.
• Gen-i launches their "Cloud Hosting" service EC2 like service - except there's no API, you phone someone to get changes made (VM's spun up/down), The fee's are monthly and it takes a couple of days to provision a new VM.
• Reddit interviews Peter Novig (Google's Directory of Research) - I liked his comments on LISP vs. C++.
• SharpDOM - An internal DSL in C# for HTML. Nice example of what the new syntax improvements in C#4 allow you to do. Looks very smalltalk-y - a lot like the Seaside html internal dsl.
• Measuring Error Rates on forms - this is a cool example of a technique that I personally think should be built into every app framework - it's a great little indicator of usability problems.
• RavenDB from Ayende - now dual licensed, and has some quite attractive features for .Net Devs.
• Set based operations in RavenDB.
• Project Natal is now Kinect for xbox 360 - Microsoft's play for the casual gamer market.
• New xbox 360 - built in Wifi, no longer runs hot … perhaps no more RRoD?.
• iPhone4 announcement.
• Course grained locks - I would be interested in discussing how people implement these etc.
• Jave Lambda syntax debate.
• Test Driven.Net 3.0 has been released.
• Teched 2010 North America sessions online.

The wave(s) this week can be found here and here.  FYI Google wave is now available to everyone, invites no longer required.  There is also a wiki with additional details about the Architecture chat.

Also – FYI – a couple of upcoming events.

• Tomorrow – Windows Phone 7 Metro developer event in Auckland.
• Next week – Citconf 2010 is being held in Wellington on June 25th 26th.

See you all tomorrow!

I’ve had a few inquiries from people re: when the next Architecture Chat is etc.

I’m currently on holiday in Europe, dodging Volcanic ash, Piles of rubbish in Amsterdam and flooding in Poland, where I’m currently at - though I’ll be heading to the UK shortly, if anyone wants to catch up for a Beer… and won’t be back in New Zealand until the second week of June.

 
(Flooding in Krakow)

In the mean time Josh Robb and Peter B “may” be organising meetings – you can find more about what’s going on by following this wave, or possibly checking the dot.net.nz mailing lists for announcements, though I think Josh is off to the UK shortly, so there may not be a meeting until I return… unless someone else wants to organise one in my absence.

See everyone in a few weeks time.

Cheers,

- Alex

Another chat tomorrow – Thursday 22nd April 2010 – 11:30am at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• VS2010 Release / Resharper 5 release etc.
• http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts/archive/2010/03/31/the-common-opensource-application-publishing-platform-coapp.aspx - sceptical and yet interesting.
• Twitters Graph database - http://github.com/twitter/flockdb
• "the most progressive .NET developers - even in today's ALT.NET community - are driven by a trepidation over a programming life without Visual Studio, and by association, ReSharper. [...] ReSharper-Driven Development" - http://blog.scottbellware.com/2010/04/ironruby-drops-does-it-make-sound.html
• http://aboutcode.net/articles/event-sourcing-infrastructure.htm
• Discussion of “current state of play” for Workflow modelling - especially user configurable ones. (e.g. a bug workflow)
• MonoMac...
• Gallio beta supporting VS2010 should be out later this week.
• A slightly more details CQRS (on .Net) example diagram.
• Plinq is now in the mono trunk. (good news for me, I no longer need to avoid making use of it ;o)
• Silverlight 4 released.
• F# 2.0 Released.
• BCL team on codeplex...
• Bricks... another stab at a .Net package manager (this time ruby inspired).
• Open source MS sponsored package management for windows.
• Chinook sample database...
• Geeky Azure server boxes.

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow.

FYI – I’m planning to hold the North Shore Architecture Chat, Next Thursday, 28th April.  I’ll put a wave up for that some time soon.

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow – Thursday 8th April 2010 – 11:30am at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Bug or feature?
• Pretty XSL?
• Most influential software books of the last 10 years.
• Webstock videos.
• Resharper 5
• Resharper 5 impressions.
• Resharper 5 Release Candidate.
• The paradox of technical documentation.
• How much of your developer career is due to google?
• The mysterious "missing article" on SD Times by Miguel :)
• http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/37880-microsoft-has-shot-net-ecosystem-in-foot-de-icaza.
• http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-326.
• http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html.
• Why HATEOAS?
• New <%: %> Syntax for HTML Encoding Output.
• http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
• http://vagrantup.com/ - commoditising VM builds.
• http://geticeberg.com/ - kinda like force.com but more for bespoke apps.
• If this gets good enough then are we all out of a job?

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow!

BTW - don't forget that Sql Saturday is on this weekend, 10th April. For more details see the Auckland Sql User Group site.

Architecture Chat Tomorrow – 11:30am – Thursday 25th March.

Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• Binding data in html view engine.
• .Net 4 type equivalence
• psDeploy (powershell deployment).
  
• Experiment driven design – see talk here on infoq.
• Also check out vanity (http://vanity.labnotes.org/) a library for a/b experiments performed on your user base.
• Manifesto of done.
• Jetbrains releasing .net code coverage tool.
• http://www.playframework.org/
• Asp.net MVC css/js compressor/minifier - http://github.com/kseg/Metsys.WebOp
• Resolver-one - looks interesting in the access-like space (and it's using IronPython).
• Miguel calls for Open Sourcing the System.Data.Services stack to allow open implementations of OData servers.

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow!