Architecture chat tomorrow, Thursday, 11:30am, 7th July, 2011, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Ferret - experimental clojure (lisp) -> c++ compiler.
• AppHarbour Add-on API
• Virtually indestructible botnet
• Spell checking and grammar integration in your own apps
• • http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/06/Spelling-Grammar
  • http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/arik/archive/2011/06/08/c-library-for-grammar-and-spell-checking.aspx
  • http://afterthedeadline.com/
  
  
  
  
• Progress update on .net for iphone / .net for android
• DDD guidance from Microsoft
• • Ayende's review of the guidance
  • • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
    • Part 4
    • Part 5
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
• Program NVidia CUDA GPU's from .net
• Mindscape lightspeed 4 released
• Official NDC 2011 videos now available for download via torrent
• IE 10 Developer Preview 2
• HP webOS 3.0 SDK released
• Eclipse Indigo release
• Bitcoin for Android

The topics this week were collected on this wave - and the previous week's wave is here..

If you have any 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!

Architecture chat tomorrow, Thursday, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Cloud9 IDE - Web based HTML5/JavaScript IDE - are we going to see a flood of HTML5 related tooling from vendors?
• Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline (in Railsconf Keynote)
• Erich Gamma (gang of four) joins DevDiv
• LucidDB - Database specifically optimized for Data warehousing.
• ASP.NET MVC the good Parts
• Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 HTML5
  support for VS210
• Where are the HTML5 Designers/Dev's going to come from for
  Windows 8 - some very good points.
• Resharper 6 B3 is out. Front-end support has been beefed up quite a
  bit.
• Twitter quotes
• • http://twitter.com/#!/hammett/statuses/81108724835553280
  • http://twitter.com/#!/nkohari/statuses/83223783418245120
  
  
  
  

The topics this week were collected on this wave - and the previous week's wave 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!

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow, 9th June 2011, 11:30 am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Possible topics:

• NAppUpdate .. more here
• Nightmare Agile
• Waving Goodbye
• Apple WWDC 2011 Key note including iCloud announcement etc.
• Octopus
• Windows 8 announcement
• One Liners: C# / F# / Groovy / Scala / Coffee script / Ruby / Python / Haskel / Clojure
• Open Plea by Silverlight / WPF Devs
• PubNub
• JSIL
• Pomodoro Technique and physical vs. app based timers

The topics this week were collected on this wave - and last week's wave 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!

It's that time again!

Another Auckland Architecture Chat is being held tomorrow, Thursday 19th May, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• Microsoft buys Skype
• CoffeeScript for VS - @andrewdavey pushes some code
• AmplifyJS - JS framework for abstracting datasource's
• RaccoonBlog - Ayende's blog engine on top of RhinoDB
• • RacoonBlog caching
  
  
  
  
• Speeding up VS2010 builds
• VS210 Perf Watson
• Mono/monotouch/monodroid demise/rebirth news
• • http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Mono-II
  • http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Mono-Future
  • Xamarin - Miguel's new Mono Focused start-up (and new home to the Mono team since Attachmate laid them all off)
  
  
  
  
• Google App Engine 1.5 released
• Windows Azure toolkit for iOS
• Hudson moving to eclipse, the fun never stops
• Xebium (Selenium + Fitnesse) - looks interesting
• Running Linux on JavaScript (It relies on typed array support in modern JavaScript implementations - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays)
• Jon Skeet's series on C# 5 Async support

The topics this week were collected on this wave - and last week's wave 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!

Auckland Architecture Chat, Thursday 5th May 2011, 11:30 am
onwards @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Possible Topics:

• DataJs library
• CTP Refresh of TPL Dataflow released
• AWS outage
• JS Performance - not exactly as you thought
• verb-noun class names (e.g. PerformsQuery) enforcing SRP & niladic/monadic methods?
• Saw this coming - when to avoid CQRS
• Mass Transit 2.0 beta out
• MVC - Mini profiler
• SSD speeds and failure rates making the rounds again
• XCode 4 support in MonoTouch
• Some Ayende Posts that have been interesting
• • RavenDB - Auto-sharding design
  • RavenFS
  • Stopping the leaks (nice use of
    ConditionalWeakTable<,>)
  
  
  
  
• Use and misuse of implicit typing (don't get the big deal myself)
• RC of Entity Framework 4.1 out
• ExtJS 4.0 released. docs here.
• IonMonkey released.
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack CTP1 available.
• Sikuli (automated testing with pictures - haven't had a chance to play with it, but looking interesting)
• Fixing These jQuery - good presentation on how to debug jQuery/javascript.

The wave were we collected these topics (and more) is here - and last week's 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!