It's that time again, Auckland Architecture chat is on tomorrow, 27th January, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• ServiceStack.net - OSS WCF if it was written by someone sane. (POCO convention based SOAP+REST XML+JSON automatically).
• Vaasnet - on demand development virtual desktops.
• The NoSql tapes
• appharbor.com - Heroku for Azure - deployment == git push appharbour
• Large scale jQuery
• The .Net ecosystem - I've been looking around lately are resources like the ruby-toolbox.com and the ruby compendium... does .Net need something like this to guide people?
• Growl notifications lately, and baking this into web apps etc.... anyone else doing similar things (i.e using growl for windows as the client etc.)
• Nude.js
• LLVM -> Javascript

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!

A new year, a new Architecture Chat.

Just this once, we will be meeting on a Friday (Tomorrow) 14th January 2011, 11:30am onwards.   Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• Mono reports  - reporting engine for .net - Gtk+ designer -
  flexible backend system for PDF/html etc.
• The iPad-ifcation of the web.
• Dapper - Googles logging framework.
• .Net web framework roundup.
• How to write a repository.
• James Shore's series Let's Play (#76 parts and counting!) on real world
  TDD.
• Lightspeed 4.0 beta now available.
• Windows 8 ARM and SoC (System on a chip) Support.
• Programming is not a craft. And the replies etc.
• NuGet gallery now open to public.
• Secrets of backtypes data engineers.
• Long term maintainability vs. the quick hack.

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!

The next Architecture chat is tomorrow, 11:30am, 9th December 2010,  Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• Apache Arvo - fast embedded (json) schema object serialization (think Protocol buffers)
• Backbone.js + jQueryMobile
• Wave-vs
• Nancy - Sinatra inspired framework for .net
• Loggly - IaaS for logging + log analytics (and .net driver)
• NDC2010 Videos
• Mozilla Seabird phone concept
• Time to diversify
• http://lisp.geek.nz/
• Google wave is now Apache Wave
• Building HTML5 apps with Clojure + AppEngine
• JavaScript on... JavaScript
• Why We Choose HTML5 for User Experiences on Device

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!

FYI: We are going to have another Architecture Chat next week as well (Currently pencilled in for Thursday 17th) that will be the last one for the year, and then we will probably get together again Mid to late January to kick off 2011.

The next Architecture chat is tomorrow, 11:30am, 25th November 2010,  Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics include:

• Progress made on Stuxnet reverse engineering.
• Duck - an ORM specifically for updates, written in F# too - but also has C# API.
• Bees with machine guns - low cost distributed load testing using EC2.
• Haskel in Javascript! Is this another proof that Javascript is the assembly language of the web?
• Why Lua doesn't suck (Talk at Strange Loop 2010 by Kyle Cordes).
• Googles Servers.
• Distributed computing for everyone.
• Map reduce in the small.
• The Flickr team on client side performance.
• Rails for Zombies.
• More Strangeloop videos.
• Cloud bee's... elastic hudson.
• Google releases Microsoft Office plugin for Google Docs.
• Yui touch apps development (your finger is dumb).
• Hardware accelerated support for Moonlight.

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!

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am, Thursday 11th November 2010.   Location (As usual) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics include:

• Douglas Purdy aka Mr Oslo turns up at Facebook
• Taco Bell Programming
• Google open source their one-click installer tech - Omaha
• Lars Rasmussen - Google Maps and Wave creator leaves for Facebook. Interview here
• Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery
• Microsoft Shifts From Silverlight to HTML5
• Holla - An Asynchronous JavaScript App - I like the sound of this
• Async C#/VB - Technical Overview
• Building a HTML5 client using Clojure
• CSS3 intro
• Rethinking the Mobile Web
• IQueryable support released separate from WCF
• Netflix is going 100% AWS - presentation and analysis
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
• Intel AppUp / AppUp support for .Net
• Microsoft Sql Server code-named ?Denali' CTP1 available
• Some new Raven.XXX projects - Raven MQ and Raven.Munin
• Mindscape's Silverlight Elements 2.0 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!

Also, there are couple of user group meetings coming up:

• Ellerslie.Net user group meeting on the 17th of this Month, as part of the Tech.Ed 2010 Express Road show.  Details here.
• JUG (Java User Group) are meeting on the 18th of this Month - presenting are Richard Vowles and Michael McCallum about Sky's development projects, and also Dennis Sosnoski from Wellington on SOAP, SOA, and REST architectures. Details
  here.