I've had a few inquiries from people re: when the next Architecture Chat is etc.

I'm currently on holiday in Europe, dodging Volcanic ash, Piles of rubbish in Amsterdam and flooding in Poland, where I'm currently at - though I'll be heading to the UK shortly, if anyone wants to catch up for a Beer... and won't be back in New Zealand until the second week of June.

(Flooding in Krakow)

In the mean time Josh Robb and Peter B "may" be organising meetings - you can find more about what's going on by following this wave, or possibly checking the dot.net.nz mailing lists for announcements, though I think Josh is off to the UK shortly, so there may not be a meeting until I return... unless someone else wants to organise one in my absence.

See everyone in a few weeks time.

Cheers,

- Alex

Another chat tomorrow - Thursday 22nd April 2010 - 11:30am at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• VS2010 Release / Resharper 5 release etc.
• http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts/archive/2010/03/31/the-common-opensource-application-publishing-platform-coapp.aspx - sceptical and yet interesting.
• Twitters Graph database - http://github.com/twitter/flockdb
• "the most progressive .NET developers - even in today's ALT.NET community - are driven by a trepidation over a programming life without Visual Studio, and by association, ReSharper. [...] ReSharper-Driven Development" - http://blog.scottbellware.com/2010/04/ironruby-drops-does-it-make-sound.html
• http://aboutcode.net/articles/event-sourcing-infrastructure.htm
• Discussion of "current state of play" for Workflow modelling - especially user configurable ones. (e.g. a bug workflow)
• MonoMac...
• Gallio beta supporting VS2010 should be out later this week.
• A slightly more details CQRS (on .Net) example diagram.
• Plinq is now in the mono trunk. (good news for me, I no longer need to avoid making use of it ;o)
• Silverlight 4 released.
• F# 2.0 Released.
• BCL team on codeplex...
• Bricks... another stab at a .Net package manager (this time ruby inspired).
• Open source MS sponsored package management for windows.
• Chinook sample database...
• Geeky Azure server boxes.

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow.

FYI - I'm planning to hold the North Shore Architecture Chat, Next Thursday, 28th April.  I'll put a wave up for that some time soon.

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - Thursday 8th April 2010 - 11:30am at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Bug or feature?
• Pretty XSL?
• Most influential software books of the last 10 years.
• Webstock
  videos.
• Resharper 5
• • Resharper 5 impressions.
  • Resharper 5 Release Candidate.
  
  
  
  
• The paradox of technical documentation.
• How much of your developer career is due to google?
• The mysterious "missing article" on SD Times by Miguel :)
  • http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/37880-microsoft-has-shot-net-ecosystem-in-foot-de-icaza.
  • http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-326.
  • http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html.
  
  
  
  
• Why HATEOAS?
• New Syntax for HTML Encoding Output.
• http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
• http://vagrantup.com/ - commoditising VM builds.
• http://geticeberg.com/ - kinda like force.combut more for bespoke apps.
  • If this gets good enough then are we all out of a job?
  
  
  
  

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow!

BTW - don't forget that Sql Saturday is on this weekend, 10th April. For more details see the Auckland Sql User Group site.

Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am - Thursday 25th March.

Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• Binding data in html view engine.
• .Net 4 type equivalence
• psDeploy (powershell deployment).
• Experiment driven design - see talk here on infoq.
• • Also check out vanity (http://vanity.labnotes.org/) a library for a/b experiments performed on your user base.
  
  
  
  
• Manifesto of done.
• Jetbrains releasing .net code coverage tool.
• http://www.playframework.org/
• Asp.net MVC css/js compressor/minifier - http://github.com/kseg/Metsys.WebOp
• Resolver-one - looks interesting in the access-like space (and it's using IronPython).
• Miguel calls for Open Sourcing the System.Data.Services stack to allow open implementations of OData servers.

The wave this week can be found here.

See you all tomorrow!

Chat Tomorrow

It's that time again - the monthly North Shore Architecture Chat is tomorrow - starting at 11:30am.

Location this time is the "New Brew" pub, hopefully it'll be a little quieter.

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Some Possible topics this week:

• OpenGL4 announced.
• ASP.Net MVC2 Released - anyone using it yet?
• Mix 2010 and Mix announcements.
• IE9 developer preview. Preview live here. JS Performance is good, Hardware acceleration etc.
• First mix videos are up.
• Silverlight install and logging framework.
• OData
• • OData gaining momentum - Pablo Castro: "Every Sharepoint 2010 server is an OData server"
  • OData visualizer.
  • OData SDK.
  
  
  
  

• Jquery templating support (being contributed to via Microsoft etc.)
• Silverlight Media Framework.
• Windows Mobilie 7 - no unmanaged code.
• HTML 5 Websocket's API.   and How HTML5 sockets interact with proxies.
• TestLint.. unit testing helper for VS2010.
• Silverlight IE8 Web Slice + Desktop Application + Windows Phone 7 Series.
• Windows phone 7 series development.

This week's google wave can be found here - if you have any more topic suggestions, stick them there - or leave a comment on this post.

Upcoming Events

There are also a couple of upcoming events...

North Shore .Net user group meeting tomorrow evening(Thursday) - at this meeting JD will be presenting on the XNA framework in more detail. See here for further info on the meeting time, venue etc.

Second - The visual Studio 2010 Launch event is coming up on the 22nd of April - with more details on the Microsoft site of course.

See you all tomorrow!