Time for another Architecture chat tomorrow (Thursday).

We’re starting at 11:30am – location (as always) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Here are some possible Topics:

• http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-nosql/
• http://nblumhardt.com/2010/01/the-relationship-zoo/ and http://cca.codeplex.com/
• http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/02/22/Sharpy-an-ASPNET-MVC-view-engine-based-on-Smarty.aspx
• MVC Turbine, MvcExtensions, Qi4J, Google SiteBricks, Ur/Web – interested in discussing composability in web frameworks.
• IE Html 5 Video plugin
• Nice process, what about the software engineering?
• The non-programming programmer

And of course the above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.

The wave this week can be found here.  If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them to the wave as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don’t have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we’ll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the wiki.

Introduction

Tomorrow is the first North Shore Architecture Chat, a north-shore based equivalent of the Auckland Architecture Chat that I’ve been helping to organise for the last couple of years, after Alex James (the original organiser) left New Zealand to join Microsoft in the states.

If you’re not familiar with the existing Architecture chat, you can find more details here on the wiki.

Location

The first meeting will be held tomorrow, 18th February at the Euro Deli, starting at 11:30am.

Address is:

3A Don McKinnon Drive
(North Ridge Plaza)
Albany
North Shore City

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Topics

Some suggested topics for the first meeting:

• Recent developer /  geek events – KiwiFoo 2010, WebStock 2010,  MVP Summit 2010 etc.
• Devops
• What is this devops thing anyway?
• More deveops stuff…
• If the cloud is the future, then this is a necessary change?
• Discussing .Net 4.0 & VS 2010 Features
• Who’s played with the RC since it’s release.
• What are people looking forward to using / what couldn’t you care less about.
• Anyone starting to deploy on .Net 4.0 now there’s a go live?
• How much does VS support influence your language choices?
• Now that F# is a first-class citizen, do people seem themselves picking it up?
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps.
• NoSql Reporting?.. and is anyone doing NoSql on the shore?

Google Wave

We’ve been using google wave to organise the first meeting – you can find the wave here.  For those that do come along tomorrow, feel free to add notes etc. about anything discussed, ideas for next time etc.

And of course If you need a google wave invite, please send me an email or tweet and we’ll hook you up.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Chat Tomorrow

Yes, it’s been 2 weeks already – time for another Architecture Chat tomorrow.

We’re starting at 11:30am – location (as always) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some Possible Topics:

• Why NoSql Now?
• Should people become more technological, or should technology become more human?
• VS2010 Release Candidate.
• ASP.Net MVC 2
• If you needed a reason to escape to the west island, surface - check out the monster app. Think process control widgets, factory automation?
• TPL in .net 4.0 is anyone using this
• Structure Map 2.6 released.
• Moonlight 3 preview 1.
• Business Primitives... See Dru's posts (1,2) here.
• Silverlight 4 COM Automation concerns?
• Ruby In Stell drops IronRuby support (uh?)
• Automapper 1.0 is out.
• Iterator based microthreading (anyone ever tried this?)

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.

The wave this week can be found here.  If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them to the wave as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don’t have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we’ll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Next Week - First North Shore Architecture Chat

Also, plans are still afoot for the first north-shore based Architecture chat to be held next Thursday, 18th February.  See this wave here for details, and to help decide the what/where/when.

I’ll be posting to the .Net user group early next week to remind everyone, and so we can finalise on a location.

It’s that time again!

Architecture chat tomorrow, 11:30am, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• http://thesoftwarecraftsmancooperative.com/
• Building evented single page web sites.
• Possibiltiy of creating a new "javascript only" view engine for MVC applications.
• OData... Recent .Net rocks episode covers it in depth.
• IronJS ..Javascript on the DLR/CLR.
• Codeplex now supports Mecurial.
• What's new in JQuery 1.4.
• NHProfiler - Side by Side diff nice
• Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion
• Mindscape's WPF Elements 2.0 has been released
• Are SSD's too fast for developers?
• LinqToWikipedia …
• Sync local SQL and SQL Azure
• Interesting effect - Pure CSS rotating coke can.
• Measuring performance of Async controllers in MVC2 (same thing would apply for monorail too, which has had async controllers for a while).
• What keeps you awake at night?
• How to master a programming language... hmmm?
• Being an Evil Genius with F# and .Net.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss. 

The wave this week can be found here.  If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them here as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don’t have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we’ll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

P.S. We are going to attempt to startup a shore-based architecture chat this year as well - tentative date for the first one is 18th of February. See this wave for details, and to help decide the what/where/when.

First Architecture Chat of the year tomorrow – sorry about the late notice, was just waiting on enough numbers before going ahead with it.

Some possible topics:

• Why does software take so long.
• Overloading dynamic
• Multitouch silverlight.
• .Net serialization comparisons (JNK).
• Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! .
• Unit Testing BizTalk.
• Do you use NUnit's fluent API?
• Bling UI Toolkit (anyone using this?)
• Ambiguous controller/area names in MVC 2
• More EF 4.0 discussion.
• Continuing to an outer loop.
• 16 ways to create IObservable's without implementing the interface.
• System.Interacvtive - functional fun and taming side effects

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 14th January 2010.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.  Note we’ve also taken to devising the list of topics collaboratively on Google wave – The wave can be found here.

Note: If you are a attendee (or plan to be in the future) and don’t have a wave account yet drop me an email and we’ll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Architecture chat tomorrow, probably the last one for the year.

Here are some potential topics:

• SPDY, Alternative to HTTP?
• NetKernel Grammars
• Entity Framework Profiler now in public beta.
• NHProf - Programmatic Integration
• Time transitions should be explicit...
• My experiences using Rhino ESB on a recent project…
• Google Fusion Tables & API.
• FsUnit keeps coming along nicely - I'm liking the syntax.
• Fun abuse of query comprehension syntax.
• Why object-oriented languages need tail calls.
• Lightspeed 3.0 released + Official Post from Ivan.
• Pair programming - the ups and down's - interesting thoughts from Nic Wise.
• Mono 2.6 / Mono Develop 2.2 both out now.
• API Design Matters.
• The IBM "Black Team".
• Smart people should do stupid stuff…

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 17th December.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.  Note we’ve also taken to devising the list of topics collaboratively on Google wave – This weeks wave can be found here.

Note: If you are a attendee (or plan to be in the future) and don’t have a wave account yet drop me an email and we’ll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Here are some topic suggestions:

• Getting started with AppFabric
• Silverlight 4
• MEF In Silverlight 4
• Sliverlight 4 - Printing support...
• Silverlight 4 - Review of new features etc.
• Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) support coming for Win2k3 in December.
• What's the difference between Covariance and assignment compatibility?
• Been reading "Coders at Work" – interesting view of “elite” developers. 
• BizTalk v.next prototype BizTalk v.next prototype.
• What NZ searched for in 2009 What NZ searched for in 2009.
• Come and learn about VS2010 - with JD.
• Rx Released Interesting - logo looks like the old Volta one... guess because it's the same team?
• Refactor or Rewrite?
• Recycling excess heat from data centres.
• Software Kata Videos ... http://katas.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
• Google Chrome OS Details
• Version 2.0.8.1007 NHibernate Visualizer beta released.

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 3rd November.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.  Note we’ve also taken to devising the list of topics collaboratively on Google wave – This weeks wave can be found here.

Note: If you are a regular attendee and don’t have a wave account yet drop me an email and we’ll see if we can get you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Here are some topic suggestions:

• The SOA Manifesto - Pointlessness manifested.
• Pimp My Architecture.
• Willed vs. Forced Development.
• Go or Unladen Swallow?
• InternetNZ announces formation of New Zealand IPv6 Task Force.
• Linq to Sql Profiler Now in public beta.
• Voyage of the Buccaneer Scholar.
• Concurrent programming presentation.
• WPF Memory Leaks.
• ASP.Net MVC 2 Beta 2 Release.
• PDC Stuff, like the Ray Ozzie keynote etc.
• Microsoft open sources the .Net Micro framework.
• It's time for ActiveRecordEngine.Net for ASP.Net MVC.
• Fusion ioExtreme Review.
• Dynamic method bag.

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 19th November.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.  Note we’ve also taken to devising the list of topics collaboratively on Google wave – This weeks wave can be found here.

Note: If you are a regular attendee and don’t have a wave account yet drop me an email and we’ll see if we can get you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Architecture chat tomorrow, apologies for the late post.

Here’s some possible topics:

• Scala - I've been learning Scala in my spare time... especially as I'm doing the odd bit of Java/JVM work, and well.. Java sucks... Seems like a great grab bag of features that I'd like to see introduced into C# like Traits… Thoughts? Opinions? – and of course there’s Scala.Net to consider too
• Visualising Windsor Components
• Ninject2 (from Peter) faster, smaller, uses CSL, "just works", auto module scanning "just binds", removed bad features such as private and field injections. Still not finished but very useable. Proper support for MVC
• Javascript MVC
• .Net Needs Spring??
• MEF + IoC - Is anyone using both MEF and IoC container, can they shed any wisdom. I know Glenn is hopefully going to enlighten us soon (see his first part in a series on this) -this is becoming important to me as I'm starting to suffer lots of headaches from choosing to use an IoC container as my plug-in/extensibility framework where 3rd parties can write plug ins (i.e. installing stuff into the container is ok, uninstalling it at run time, and educating other developers... not so much) - also what patterns (like generic decorators etc.) aren't suitable when considering modular applications.
• Mauricio Scheffer also mentioned that Krzysztof is working to bridge Windsor and MEF, and that the initial patch looks promising (for lazy component loading).
  
• Literate Programming… Thoughts?
• Horn Get Live – The next step in Horn’s “Evolution” is here – check out the http://www.hornget.net/packages/ website … I think this is really starting to show promise
• Spec Explorer - Model Base Testing Tool
• Watir/watin and Continuous integration – running tests when your not logged into machines etc.
• WPF 4 Changes...
• Roll Top Concept PC
• Units of Measure in F#
• NHibernate & Execution Plans and Andrei Volkov’s in depth post covering the history of this issue

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 5th November.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.  Note we’ve also taken to devising the list of topics collaboratively on Google wave – This weeks wave can be found here.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

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

Here a list of some possible topics:

• Five simple database design errors you should avoid.
• VS 2010 Beta 2 available - some useful link posts here and here.
• Role of P&P Team in Microsoft Development?
• Approaches to sanitizing/parsing html, including regexs, sglm reader, hpricot, htmltidy, antixss, xhtml dtd and approaches employed by social sites like facebook and opensocial (such as you might find in say shindig or pesta).
• Do we still, or did we ever really need http. ( and past thoughts of Blackbird)
• Sharepoint 2010 Development content published.
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier vs YUI Compressor.
• Google wave first impressions - as we all get our google invites and have a play - what do we think?
• Evolving the key/value programming model to a higher level.
• Http Archive Specification - now implemented in firebug and httpWatch. 
• Lightspeed 3.0 beta - including goodies like Migration support.
• LLBLGen Pro version 3 sneak peak.
• Linq to sql profiler private beta.
• Nhibernate shards progress report. 
• IntelliJ IDEA Goes open source.
• Nobody wants my code...
• Tim Berners Lee - Admitting // wasn't required.
  

We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 22nd October – and the topics above are just there in case we run out of anything else to talk about (which is rare).

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.