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DC ALT.NET Meeting - March 19th
I've held off recently announcing the DC ALT.NET meeting due to scheduling issues. Anyhow, that has been resolved and we are good to go. We will be holding it on March 19th from 7-9PM. The meeting this month will bring ALT.NET to Arlington, Virginia. I want to thank Kevin Hegg for offering his office as our get together.
At our last meeting, Stelligent hosted our event in which we discussed a lot of great topics. You can read a wrapup of our last meeting here. This time, we're going to have Jay Flowers to discuss Continuous Integration and CI Factory. It should be a great discussion as it's been weighing on my mind lately. Our format is as follows, the first hour or so is the topic at hand and then the second hour or whenever the talk is done is for Open Spaces.
Looking for Sponsors
As always, we're looking for sponsors for our events. We bring a lot of passionate developers to your site and we feel we can bring a lot. Sponsorship opportunities are always appreciated!
Who We Are
Are you a developer who always keeps an eye out for a better way? Do you look outside the mainstream to adopt the best practices of any development community, including Open Source, Agile, Java, and Ruby communities? Are you always looking for more elegant, more simple, more maintainable solutions? If so, then you might be an ALT.NET practitioner!
This group follows the Open Space Technology model. In Open Space, a facilitator explains the process and then participants are invited to co-create the agenda and host their own discussion groups. So, we'll take a vote and present the topics. We're in the pub-club mind occasionally, so it's not surprising to find us geeking out a bar...
This model follows the four basic principles:
- Whoever comes are the right people
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- When it's over, it's over
Tuesday, Marh 19th 7:00 PM
Arlington, VA. See thread for details.
Come, participate, and make your voice heard! Come meet passionate developers like yourself in the active discussion. Hoping for a great turnout... If you haven't signed up for our list, go ahead and do that here.
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DC ALT.NET Wrapup and CI Factory
Well, due to the weather beyond our control, the crowd was a bit smaller than expected at the February meeting of DC ALT.NET. It seems people panic in the Washington DC area if there is even a hint of moisture in the air or a snow flake hits the ground. It was a smaller crowd, yet passionate and I'd rather have that then a big crowd that wasn't involved at all. We had such people as Craig Andera, Jay Flowers, Kevin Hegg among others who attended. But the topics were great talking about functional programming, with Craig and Lisp and me with F#, continuous integration, the complexity of .NET and what's coming down the line, Domain Driven Design and managing complexity in projects. Not once did a laptop nor PowerPoint show its head, instead just passionate people talking about technology and ways of thinking.
I want to thank the people at Stelligent and Jay Flowers for making this happen. It couldn't have been better timing as he just released version 1.0.1 of CI Factory yesterday. If you aren't aware of this product, I've blogged about it in the past here. What it does is it creates an out of the box CI environment which is really important to have in an agile environment. Even teams as small as one person can benefit greatly from continuous integration.
Tools supported by CI Factory include:
- NAnt
- MbUnit
- FinalBuilder
- InstallShield
- MSBuild
- MSTest
- NCover
- NDepend
- Simian
- Subversion
- VSS
- VSTS
- Windows Installer XML
- Xenocode Postbuild
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Resharper 4.0 Nightly Builds Now Released
A recent announcement was made on the altdotnet mailing list that made me jump for joy today. Ilya Ryzhenkov and the great folks at JetBrains have published the nightly builds for Resharper 4.0. The download for this can be found here and you might want to read the release notes here. It's important to note that the LINQ syntax is still not supported yet. As with any product in nightly builds, please use with caution, but download it and play with it today!
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Resharper 4.0 Early Access Program in Two Weeks?
The good folks at JetBrains have recently announced that Resharper 4.0 Early Access Program will be available in two weeks. It's like one of those long awaited things like Duke Nukem Forever, but it looks like R# will beat it to the punch, fortunately for me. For those like me, I can honestly say I haven't been as productive in Visual Studio 2008 as I can say I have been without it. Many people will use the workaround as stated many times around the blogs, but I've just stayed away until they can get it working just right. Instead, I've been happy using it with Visual Studio 2005 in the mean time.
The only thing now that keeps me with the Visual Studio 2005 sitting around continues to be BizTalk. I imagine the next Service Pack of BizTalk 2006 R2 will contain the right templates, but it's frustrating that they haven't come out yet. Either way, I can't wait until R# 4.0! Until next time...
