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.