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

Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Here are some possible Topics (note: topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss)

• Design Outside the Box
• Nose Achievements
• Using Rx for Domain Events
• Why force a choice?
• MVC or Web Forms - a dying question
• UK Digital Economy Bill vs. United States DCMA
• Apple suing HTC (not to mention Apple & Nokia suing each other).
• List of apple patent's in dispute.
• Facebook Patent's feeds
• Kayak Http Server
• .Net 4.0 Obsolete features.
• CQRS (wouldn't mind discussing good/bad/ugly aspects of this).
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler.

The wave this week can be found here. If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them to the wave as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don't have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we'll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the wiki.

BTW - There will be a North Shore Architecture Chat next week - If you have any topics etc. please add them to the wave here.

See you all tomorrow!

Time for another Architecture chat tomorrow (Thursday).

We're starting at 11:30am - location (as always) is Garrisons,
Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Here are some possible Topics:

• http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-nosql/
  
• http://nblumhardt.com/2010/01/the-relationship-zoo/
  and http://cca.codeplex.com/
  
• http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/02/22/Sharpy-an-ASPNET-MVC-view-engine-based-on-Smarty.aspx
  
• MVC Turbine,
  MvcExtensions, Qi4J,
  Google
  SiteBricks, Ur/Web - interested in
  discussing composability in web frameworks.
  
• IE Html 5 Video plugin
  
• Nice process, what about the software engineering?
  
• The non-programming programmer
  

And of course the above topics are just a fall back in case we
run out of anything else to discuss.

The wave this week can be
target="_blank">found here.  If anyone wants to
contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat,
please add them to the wave as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in
the future) and don't have a wave account yet then drop me an
email and we'll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous
sessions you can consult the
target="_blank">wiki.

Introduction

Tomorrow is the first North Shore Architecture Chat, a north-shore based equivalent of the Auckland Architecture Chat that I've been helping to organise for the last couple of years,
after Alex James (the original organiser) left New Zealand to join Microsoft in the states.

If you're not familiar with the existing Architecture chat, you can find more details here on the wiki.

Location

The first meeting will be held tomorrow, 18th February at the Euro Deli, starting at 11:30am.

Address is:

3A Don McKinnon Drive
(North Ridge Plaza)
Albany
North Shore City

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Topics

Some suggested topics for the first meeting:

• Recent developer /  geek events - KiwiFoo 2010, WebStock 2010,  MVP Summit 2010 etc.
• Devops
• • What is this devops thing anyway?
  • More deveops stuff...
  • If the cloud is the future, then this is a necessary change?
  
  
  
  
• Discussing .Net 4.0 & VS 2010 Features
• • Who's played with the RC since it's release.
  • What are people looking forward to using / what couldn't you care less about.
  • Anyone starting to deploy on .Net 4.0 now there's a go live?
  
  
  
  
• How much does VS support influence your language choices?
• • Now that F# is a first-class citizen, do people seem themselves picking it up?
  
  
  
  
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps.
• NoSql Reporting?.. and is anyone doing NoSql on the shore?

Google Wave

We've been using google wave to organise the first meeting - you can find the wave here.  For those that do come along tomorrow, feel free to add notes etc. about anything discussed, ideas for next time etc.

And of course If you need a google wave invite, please send me an email or tweet and we'll hook you up.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Chat Tomorrow

Yes, it's been 2 weeks already - time for another Architecture Chat tomorrow.

We're starting at 11:30am - location (as always) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some Possible Topics:

• Why NoSql Now?
• Should people become more technological, or should technology become more human?
• VS2010 Release Candidate.
• ASP.Net MVC 2
• If you needed a reason to escape to the west island, surface - check out the monster app. Think process control widgets, factory automation?
• TPL in .net 4.0 is anyone using this
• Structure Map 2.6 released.
• Moonlight 3 preview 1.
• Business Primitives... See Dru's posts (1,2) here.
• Silverlight 4 COM Automation concerns?
• "Ruby In Steel" drops IronRuby support (uh?)
• Automapper 1.0 is out.
• Iterator based microthreading (anyone ever tried this?)

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.

The wave this week can be found here.  If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them to the wave as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don't have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we'll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

Next Week - First North Shore Architecture Chat

Also, plans are still afoot for the first north-shore based Architecture chat to be held next Thursday, 18th February. See this target="_blank">wave here for details, and to help decide the what/where/when.

I'll be posting to the .Net user group early next week to remind everyone, and so we can finalise on a location.

It's that time again!

Architecture chat tomorrow, 11:30am, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• http://thesoftwarecraftsmancooperative.com/
• Building evented single page web sites.
• Possibiltiy of creating a new "javascript only" view engine for MVC applications.
• OData... Recent .Net rocks episode covers it in depth.
• IronJS ..Javascript on the DLR/CLR.
• Codeplex now supports Mecurial.
• What's new in JQuery 1.4.
• NHProfiler - Side by Side diff nice
• Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion
• Mindscape's WPF Elements 2.0 has been released
• Are SSD's too fast for developers?
• LinqToWikipedia ...
• Sync local SQL and SQL Azure
• Interesting effect - Pure CSS rotating coke can.
• Measuring performance of Async controllers in MVC2 (same thing would apply for monorail too, which has had async controllers for a while).
• What keeps you awake at night?
• How to master a programming language... hmmm?
• Being an Evil Genius with F# and .Net.

The above topics are just a fall back in case we run out of anything else to discuss.?

The wave this week can be found here.? If anyone wants to contribute some notes about what we discussed after the chat, please add them here as well.

Note: If you are coming along (or plan to be in the future) and don't have a wave account yet then drop me an email and we'll send you an invite.

For more details on the location and write-ups of previous sessions you can consult the associated wiki.

P.S. We are going to attempt to startup a shore-based architecture chat this year as well - tentative date for the first one is 18th of February. See this wave for details, and to help decide the what/where/when.