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.

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

• Lightweight debugging for Hybrid C#/IronPython Apps.
  
• Asp.Net MVC Preview 2.
  
• Good Developers Write Good Code Instinctively.
  
• Texo - Power Shell CI Server.
  
• Create projects from standard source control templates -
  Warmup.
  
• Using seadragon with ASP.Net MVC.
  
• Duct tape programmers.
  
• WebsiteSpark Program Announcement.
  
• XUnit 1.5 Shipped.
  
• The Visual Studio Documentary.
  
• Rich Hickey & Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure.
  
• MySpace Qizmt - Open
  Source Map Reduce Framework.
  
• Scratch
  interface.
  
• Using a service bus for queries...
  
• PHP to ADO.Net Data Services bridge.
  
• Mono
  touch 1.0 release and the recent monomania
  on hanselminutes podcast.
  
• Software
  transactional memory in .Net 4.0.  Recent podcast on
  .Net
  Rocks here.
  
• Good reason for remove functionality...
  
• Stack Overflow Careers
  
  

We'll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia
Park, Thursday 8th 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.

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

• Codeplex foundation announcement
• • Blog Reactions from Miguel DeIcaza, Scott Bellware, Phill Haack (1,2) John V Peterson, Jeremy D Miller, Scott Hanselman.
  
  
  
  
• Letting things die on the vine.
• Microsoft's secret "Courier" booklet device unveiled.
• Codecamp / Teched Post-mortem.
• Version v0.16 of Pex released - it's getting better and better.
• MonoTouch 1.0 went live.
• BDD
• • Rob Connery - Make BDD your BFF.
  • Mspec.. for Boo!
  
  
  
  
• Roy Osherove - Steal my book...
• Kata - have you done any lately?
• • UncleBob's Karta (bowling game, prime factors etc.).
  • Pragmatic programmers - CodeKata.
  
  
  
  
• Interesting article on xmpp/google wave opportunities by Jason Kolb.
• 10 Reasons pair programming is not for the masses.
• Google jstemplate.
• SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.
• Technology behind Microsoft TechEd New Zealand 2009.
• Make it easy to refactor...
• Why do ref and out parameters not allow type variation? (something I'd always wondered about)
• Writing a Z-Machine interpreter in C#.
• Wither the repository.
• NHibernate Profiler goes 1.0 - anyone else bought a copy?
• DSL 09 Blog.
• Drawing the line between MVC Controlls and Application Services.

We had a smallish turnout last time that focused on mostly reviewing Visual NHibernate - so most of the topics from the last session are still up for discussion too - you can find them listed here.

We'll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Thursday 24th September - and the topics above are just there in case we run out of anything else to talk about (which is rare).

Update: Jamie from Slyce software will be demoing the first cut of entity-first modeling support in Visual NHibernate.

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

Thanks to all those people who enjoyed endured an hour of me talking about Domain Specific Languages and Boo :)

Slides

Slides can be downloaded from here, and a zip file containing the code is here.

[slideshare id=2027275&doc=dslpresentation-090920153044-phpapp01]

The DSL Book

If you found this topic interesting and want to learn more about writing Domain Specific Languages with Boo, I strongly encourage you to buy Ayende's book "Writing domain specific languages in boo".

It's very thorough (350 odd pages) - and includes a lot of guidance around not only writing a domain specific language with Boo, but the far larger topic of incorporating a business DSL into real world applications, versioning concerns, batch compilation etc. that must be considered when ever you write a domain specific language to be used in a production system.

Do yourself a favour and buy it today - it's currently in Mannings EAP (early access program) - but is complete and just undergoing the final editing stages before going to print.

Boo & Boo DSL Resources

• http://boo.codehaus.org/
• Boo language google group
• Boo Tutorials
  • Boo Primer
  • Hello Boo
  • Differences with C#
  • Differences with Python
  • Boo Who
  
  
  
  

• IDE Support / Development Environments
  • Sharpdevelop website (IDE capable of building Boo projects on windows).
  • MonoDevelop (Mono IDE capable of building Boo projects, windows version does not currently support boo).
  • Boo Lang Studio (Boo plugin for visual Studio .net 2008 - fairly alpha)
  • Booish (A boo command line interpreter / REPL)
  
  
  
  
• RhinoDSL
  • RhinoDSL Tutorial.
  • RhinoDSL on github.
  
  
  
  
• Ayende's Posts
  • DSL posts
  • Boo posts
  
  
  
  

Syntax highlighting Editors

I had a few questions via email / skype about the WPF syntax highlighting component I used in my demos - it was AvalonEdit, part of the SharpDevelop 4.0 project - you can grab the code via subversion from here:

svn://svnmirror.sharpdevelop.net/sharpdevelop/trunk/SharpDevelop/src/Libraries/AvalonEdit

Ayende's book also covers building a simple script editor using the SharpDevelop windows forms editor control (know as ICSharpCode.TextEditor)... there is an article on codeplex here which describes how to use that library.

Thanks! and Next Architecture Chat

Thanks all for coming to code camp - and for those that are interested, we have an upcoming Architecture Chat this Thursday 24th September at 11:30am - hopefully we might see a few new faces there this week!

Some possible topics:

• Extensible languages like Boo & Nemerle.
  
• Boo 0.9.2 released.
  
• Teched NZ 2009 Next Week.
  
• Why are so many
  developer tools orange?
  
• Myth of Software Development - Open vs. Closed.
  
• On the fly
  assembly decompression.
  
• Interesting .Net / Java Integration projects...
  
• • DotWeb 
    
  • ScriptSharp
    / ExtSharp
    
  • JSC
    
  • Volta (which is
    dead)
    
  • Advantages / disadvantages of C# vs IL transformation.
    
  • Debugging experiences / other concerns?
    
  
  
  
  
• Doloto on DevLabs - and let's not forget Aptimize.
  
• NHibernate
  Commercial Support.
  
• Nice set of lucene tutorials from Simone Chiaretta.
  
• Screen Activator Pattern.
  
• SharpDevelop goes 32bit by default.
  
• Scott Hanselman's 2009 Tools List.
  
• CodeRush vs. ReSharper.
  
• RhinoMocks 3.6.
  
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM.
  
• Repository Implementation Patterns.
  

Edit: Some Late Editions from David
(who gives his appologies, and wont be able to make it
tomorrow).

• Visual NHibernate
  Beta Release.
  
• StoryTeller
  & Preview Release Blog Post.
  
  

There is also the code camp this Sunday in Auckland, at which
I'll be presenting on Domain Specific Languages, with a
side-order of writing Domain Specific Languages in Boo. 
I'll post about that tomorrow, and maybe include a little more
detail about what I hope to cover.

We'll be meeting at the usual time of 11:30am @ Garrisons, Sylvia
Park, Thursday 10th September - 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.