Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 10th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Some interesting Kinect hacks
• • http://youtu.be/VgLp-KyK5g8 Piano
  • http://youtu.be/Zw_6o7AuBzk X-ray
    http://youtu.be/4qhXQ_1CQjg Predator
  
  
  
  
• ExtJS 4 preview - interactive canvas charts are looking quite nice, still waiting on some of the demos like endless scrolling grids.
• SqlServer 2001 Column Store
• WinForms die-hard's
• Chirpy
• 2010 Computer book market (Orielly) (F# up, Scala down, C# down, Java up).
• MEF 2 Preview 3 released. Attribute-less registration, open generic types. Nice little MVC sample. Basically a minimal fully fledged container now.
• Agatha RSSL (Request Response Service Layer)
• • http://davybrion.com/blog/2008/06/batching-wcf-calls/
  • http://davybrion.com/blog/2008/07/batching-wcf-calls-take-2/
  • http://davybrion.com/blog/2008/07/the-request-response-service-layer/
  
  
  
  
• How github changed the world.
• Using C# as a scripting language using Mono compiler as a service.
• Aloha HTML Editor (github) - Looks nice, but no IE6 support.
• JavaScript loader comparison.
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 released..

The wave for this week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

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

See you all tomorrow!