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.

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am, Thursday 21st October 2010.

Location (As usual) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park:

Possible topics include:

• SisoDb
• Microsoft NuPack
• World of Visual Studio (WoVS)
• Bitcoin
• Ray Ozzie steps down
• 4Square mongo-db outage
• Visual Studio 2010 Boo Plugin (alpha)

The wave for this week can be found here.  If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 29th September - 11:30am - Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• GoGaRuco 2010, including Avi Bryant - GoGaRuco talk (video not yet released).
• Oslo - official death notice.
• Manos - new .Net web framework.
• Shoudly - should testing for .Net.
• RavenDB - index replication to relational databases.
• Kipunji - very pretty web XML Doc viewer - example here.
• ASP.Net vulnerability.  Demo of the Padding Oracle attack. Security update now available.
• Omega - language of the future.
• Spatial data queries in LightSpeed.
• Orcon builds CDN for Sky...
• Silverlight SEO.

We also didn't really cover most of last weeks topics here.

The wave for this week can be found here if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 16th September - 11:30am - Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• Cool ruby quine of the globe.
• Douglas Purdy (Oslo tech lead) leaves MS for Facebook
• Senior engineer confirms Apple working on MacRuby for iOS
• Nice Uncle Bob refactoring presentation
• Android Tablets - Samsung tablet, Archos, etc.
• Seaside 3 released
• Microsoft HTML5/WPF/Silverlight dramas (1 & 2)
• Monorail 3 underway
• I want a new programming language (Journeyman languages...)
• Another JavaScript TDD/BDD Framework - Jasmine.
• TechEd videos from the Mindscape lads.
• Client side image reduction in javascript.
• Unix stack exchange - http://unix.stackexchange.com/
• iOS loosened up developer restrictions.  Good news for monotouch.
• Been around for a while, but just stumbled across this brief retrospective on transaction memory, and the follow up post... interesting stuff.

The wave for this week can be found here - if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 26th August - 11:30am -
Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics:

• NSubstitute - Another .Net mocking framework.
  
• More lightswitch discussions (yawn)
  
• Castle Windsor 2.5
  
• NHibernate Designer from Mindscape
  
• RestCake - Yet
  another REST framework for .Net
  
• Boat - sinatra
  inspired web framework for C#
  
• JQuery Mobile, and
  Sencha
  Touch - javascript mobile touch frameworks.
  
• What would you like to see
  Microsoft do with IronRuby?
  

For those people attending the Architecture Chat this week
Mindscape have kindly
offered to provide licenses of their NHibernate designer tool -
more details will be given at the chat.

The wave for this week can be found here - if you have other topics you would like to discuss,
post them there.



There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the
Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also don't forget that Code Camp is this Sunday, August
29th.  You can see the list of sessions and plan your day on
the website here. 
It's bigger and better then ever before this year, so it should
be a great event!

See you all tomorrow!