Auckland Architecture Chat, Thursday 21st April 2011, 11:30 am onwards @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Some Possible Topics:

• Mix 2011 News
• • Day 1 - IE10 preview
  • Day 2 - Winmo 7 etc.
  
  
  
  
• Coffeescript getting more traction lately
• • Coffeescript and as part of RoR 3.1's new asset pipeline "out of the box"
  • Andrew Davy is working on Coffee Script support
  
  
  
  
• Github
• • Image View Modes
  • Issues 2.0
  
  
  
  
• Will the rise of javascript mean the end of LAMP?
• Ceylon Language for JVM
• Native HTML5 in IE10
• VMWare Cloudfoundry
• Patterns in functional programming
• Rule 110 in HTML5 + CSS
• PJAX (pushState + AJAX)
• Monorail 3 Development underway
• The jQuery divide
• The last programming language
• Tail recursion vs. debugging
• Refactoring to monadic code
• What's coming for developers in winmo7 Mango

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

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

See you all tomorrow!

Hi All!

Architecture Chat today- Thursday 7th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• ASP.Net Deployment Needs To Be Fixed
• Data Wrangler
• Sharepoint Guid Collision Avoidance
• Preditor - The camera that learns
• Acer releases an "affordable" Android Tablet
• MS Says HTML5 may be the future but Silverlight is cool to
• Roy Oserhove's google rejection letter
• Windows is not a .net delivery platform
• DevelopWithPassion.Specifications
• MVC3 - html attributes with dashses
• Why we don't hire .net dev's more here
• Scoble attributing MySpace's demise to MS (and LA)
• • Rob Conery leaps in
  
  
  
  
• .Net Stocholm Syndrome et. al

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

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

See you all tomorrow!

Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 24th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Responsive Design - manifesto for not designing for PC resolutions.
• Media Queries - pretty much like CSS Zen Garden for Responsive Web design.
• Pratt Parsers - expression parsing made easy(r) + Interesting implementation in C#.
• Being Constructive - Rob Conery trying to be nice about EF MSDN anti-pattern sample code.
• Reddit/AWS outage. Reddit was down for 6 hours. Mostly blames Amazon. Lots of interesting discussion about the performance/availability of the EBS (persistent disk storage) product.?
• CSS 3 Planetarium
• Selenium 2b3 released. With the new WebDriver interface (al la Watin/Watir)
• Silex - PHP's getting on the Sinatra wave.
• jRuby 1.6 released.
• Interview with Stephen Wolfram.
• Programming MOFO.
• Eclipse Orion.
• MonoMac 1.0 out.
• .Net/C# Generics History.
• SimpleBuildTool for Scala.

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

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

See you all tomorrow!

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!

Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 24th February - 11:30am,
Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics

• Christchurch Earthquake.
  
• Robot Pebbles ... interesting podcast on building static tools like hammers
  etc. from robot pebbles using electro-permanent magnets.
  
• Mono 2.10
  released.  Also the Moonlight 4
  preview 1 is out - anyone else feel like moonlight and
  Silverlight are two entirely different beasts these days..
  
• Google public
  data - can now upload your own data (API here). Seems
  like an interesting way to take your own data and compare to
  world trends etc. to try and spot patterns you might not
  otherwise have seen.
  
• Some interesting talk proposals here - http://2011.jsconf.us/proposals
  
• Simple.Data...
  seems to be taking shape.
  
• Interview questions for developers.
  
• Friendly
  Digest - simple idea, but I really like it - especially for
  things like support ticket numbers etc.
  
• IronRuby 1.1.2 released.
  
• jQuery deferred in v1.5.
  
• Silver small talk
  - Smalltalk in JavaScript (have a feeling we might have done
  this one before, but just in case).
  
• Full android 3.0 SDK is out.
  
• Fabric for python getting some nice improvements (such as
  parallel execution).
  
• Windows 7/2008 r2 SP1 released.
  

To all those in Christchurch and surrounding areas, our thoughts
go out to you - @freitasm has put together a
good list of online resources for those affected by the Quake, or
with family members if Christchurch.

Check it out
here.

See you all there tomorrow.