Chat Tomorrow

It’s that time again – the monthly North Shore Architecture Chat is tomorrow – starting at 11:30am.

Location this time is the “New Brew” pub, hopefully it’ll be a little quieter.

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Some Possible topics this week:

• OpenGL4 announced.
• ASP.Net MVC2 Released - anyone using it yet?
• Mix 2010 and Mix announcements.
• IE9 developer preview. Preview live here. JS Performance is good, Hardware acceleration etc.
• First mix videos are up.
• Silverlight install and logging framework.
• OData
• OData gaining momentum - Pablo Castro: "Every Sharepoint 2010 server is an OData server"
• OData visualizer.
• OData SDK.
• Jquery templating support (being contributed to via Microsoft etc.)
• Silverlight Media Framework.
• Windows Mobilie 7 - no unmanaged code.
• HTML 5 Websocket's API.   and How HTML5 sockets interact with proxies.
• TestLint.. unit testing helper for VS2010. 
• Silverlight IE8 Web Slice + Desktop Application + Windows Phone 7 Series.
• Windows phone 7 series development.

This week’s google wave can be found here – if you have any more topic suggestions, stick them there – or leave a comment on this post.

Upcoming Events

There are also a couple of upcoming events…

North Shore .Net user group meeting tomorrow evening(Thursday) – at this meeting JD will be presenting on the XNA framework in more detail.  See here for further info on the meeting time, venue etc.

Second – The visual Studio 2010 Launch event is coming up on the 22nd of April – with more details on the Microsoft site of course.

See you all tomorrow!

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

Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Here are some possible Topics (note: topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss)

• Design Outside the Box
• Nose Achievements
• Using Rx for Domain Events
• Why force a choice?
• MVC or Web Forms - a dying question
• UK Digital Economy Bill vs. United States DCMA
• Apple suing HTC (not to mention Apple & Nokia suing each other).
• List of apple patent's in dispute.
• Facebook Patent’s feeds
• Kayak Http Server
• .Net 4.0 Obsolete features.
• CQRS (wouldn’t mind discussing good/bad/ugly aspects of this).
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler.

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.

BTW – There will be a North Shore Architecture Chat next week – If you have any topics etc. please add them to the wave here.

See you all tomorrow!

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

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.