Virtual ALT.NET

We have completed our 100th recording!

2010-04-10T05:23:00.001-07:00

Well we did it. We made our 100th recording. It also had a record breaking attendance of over 100 attendees.

So check it out, our 100th recording on Software Craftsmanship with Robert Martin.

Thanks for everyone's help and support over the last few years.

Zachariah Young

http://virtualaltnet.com

Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET

2010-04-05T19:54:00.001-07:00

Topic

Learn how to use the RX to gain control over events, begin/end async calls to other streaming data sources. Code demo to include streaming OLAP and simple CEP use cases.

Bio

Scott Weinstein has been working with .NET since the 1.0 days and for Lab49 focuses his attentions on WPF, BI, and multi-threaded code solutions. He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/sweinstein. Additionally, he helps organize the NY .NET Meetup.

What is VAN?
Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET
community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style conversation.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the
Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.
Times below are Central Standard Time

Start Time: Wed, April 21, 2010 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, April 21, 2010 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van
Zach Young
http://www.virtualaltnet.com

Getting Started With nServiceBus

2010-03-16T19:18:00.001-07:00

Topic: nServiceBus is mature and powerful open source framework that enables to design robust, scalable, message-based, service-oriented architectures. Latest improvements in the configuration API enables developers to quickly get started and build a working simple system that uses messaging infrastructure. The goal of this session is to give a jump start with the framework, introduce basic concepts such as message handlers, Sagas, Pub/Sub, Generic Host and also create a working demo application that uses publish/subscribe messaging. The content of the session is addressed to developers that are interested in learning how to get started using nServiceBus in order to design and build distributed systems.

Bio: Bernard Kowalski is currently a Software Developer at Microdesk, one of Autodesk's leading partners in providing variety of Geospatial and Computer-Aided Design solutions.

Bernard has experience developing .NET framework-based applications utilizing Windows Forms, Windows Services, ASP.NET MVC, and Web services. In a recent project, Bernard architected and implemented a distributed system based on SOA principles using an open source implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus. Bernard develops software with Agile patterns and practices using Domain Driven Design combined with TDD (Test Driven Development). He is familiar with all of the following APIs: Autodesk Vault/Product Stream API, AutoCAD ActiveX/VBA/.NET API, AutoCAD Mechanical API, Autodesk Inventor API, Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise.

Prior to joining Microdesk, Bernard worked as a researcher and teacher at the University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland where he was awarded with a PhD in Computer Methods in Materials Science. He also participated in research projects where he developed applications for analysis of hot compression test results using advanced optimization techniques. He also developed Finite Element Method-based programs for thermal and stress analysis using C++ and FORTRAN.

Bernard is a member of the Domain Driven Design and ALT.NET user groups in NYC.

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET
community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and
dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create
software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and
LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking
the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style
conversation.
Please see the Calendar(http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar) to
find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel
welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording
page.
To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the
Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.
Times below are Central Standard Time
Start Time: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

Zach Young
http://www.virtualaltnet.com

From Zero to Professional Build in a matter of moments, not days! with Rob Reynolds on Feb 24

2010-02-17T20:22:00.001-08:00

Topic: Automated Builds: How to UppercuT Your Code!

“From Zero to Professional Build in a matter of moments, not days!”

How you build your code and verify quality is something that is usually not thought of at the beginning of a project, but is one of the most important things you can add to code. UppercuT (UC) is a build framework (based in NAnt) that allows rapid and powerful use of NAnt without having to understand the intricacies of NAnt. We are basically going to dive right in after a couple of minutes of talking about it and start building applications quickly. Our focus will be to show you most if not all of the features to show you how UC can actually save you in code and maintenance time.

Bio:
Rob Reynolds has been programming in .NET since the early days of 1.0. In his day job he is a senior developer at a bank where the doors are always locked and there's no money inside! Rob is an MCSD for .NET, holds a bachelor's degree in MIS from Kansas State University, is active in the Topeka .Net User Group, a regional INETA speaker, an eagle scout, and a veteran officer of the US Army Reserve. Rob enjoys spending time with his wife and kids when his wife hasn’t locked him in the basement to work on any of the OSS projects he manages.
What is VAN?

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET
community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and
dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create
software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and
LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking
the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style
conversation.

Please see the Calendar(http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar) to
find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel
welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording
page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the
Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Times below are Central Standard Time
Start Time: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
End Time: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

Zach Young

http://www.virtualaltnet.com

First Meeting this year will be You Can't Dance the Lambda by George Mauer

2010-01-25T19:38:00.000-08:00

Topic
You Can't Dance the Lambda is a discussion on the lambda feature of .NET 3.5, why I use it all the time and for everything and so should you. The discussion starts by defining lambdas and demonstrating why they are nothing but syntactic sugar over concepts that .NET programmers have been familiar with for years. It continues by demonstrating a variety of patterns which use lambdas to abstract away repetitive code, increase extensibility, and write more intention-revealing and robust applications.

Bio
George is a .NET developer with a keen interest in maximizing long-
term business value through good software development practices. He is
particularly interested in Domain Driven Design, Test Driven
Development, and the SOLID principles. He is currently the Vice
President of the Greater New Orleans .NET Usergroup and a regular
attendee at gnocode (New Orleans Programmers) and Virtual Alt.NET Brown Bag
meetings.

What is VAN?

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET
community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and
dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create
software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and
LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking
the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style
conversation.

Please see the Calendar(http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar) to
find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel
welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording
page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the
Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Times below are Central Standard Time
Start Time: Wed, Jan 27, 2010 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
End Time: Wed, jan 27, 2010 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

Zach Young

http://www.virtualaltnet.com

Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2

2009-11-17T15:54:00.001-08:00

Topic
I will present an introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. This introduction will not only discuss NHibernate in isolation but show its usage embedded in a realistic yet simple WPF application. All aspects of how to setup, run and extend such an application will be discussed. An important focus will be put on the differences between testing and running the application.

Bio
After receiving my Ph.D. of Physics at the Federal Institute of Technologies in Zurich, Switzerland, I worked for some time in building physics, and subsequently moved to behavioral science. Among other things, I was involved in training expert examiners of different industries in how to write and take exams that are fair and really test the relevant aspects of their profession.
In 1996, I started as an independent consultant, mentor, trainer and developer. In 2001, a partner and I founded a small software company. We have been writing customer specific software for all kinds of industries as well as for the government.
Since March 2009, I have been working as a senior software architect for TOPAZ Technologies in Austin, TX. I moved to Austin in October 2009.

I have been working on the .NET platform in my professional work since 2000. I am the author of the NHibernate FAQ blog and am a member of "Los Techies". I have also published several articles on DotNetSlackers about NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate.

What is VAN?

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and programming dojo’s, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time
convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Times below are Central Standard Time
Start Time: Wed, November 18, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
End Time: Wed, November 18, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate.

2009-11-10T04:54:00.001-08:00

Times below are Central Standard Time
Start Time: Wed, November 11, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
End Time: Wed, November 11, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -6 hours
Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

VAN Recordings have been updated

2009-11-05T22:08:00.001-08:00

Check out the lastest VAN postings. http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Recordings

Billy McCafferty talking about S#arp Architecture on Nov 4

2009-11-02T20:46:00.001-08:00

Billy McCafferty will join us once again on the heels of releasing
Service Pack 1 for S#arp Architecture version 1. He will spend some time reviewing feature improvements, changes and add more context tot he framework where time was not permitted in the first meeting. If you have any specific questions you would like addressed during the evening please let the thread begin...

Time and location of the meetings Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Nov 4, Each week 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Nov 4, Each week 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

We have Ayende Rahien talking again tonight!

2009-10-28T07:19:00.000-07:00

Topic
A three way conversation with the main collaborators who created NH Profiler. This tool enables developers to gain a deeper insight into profiling their applications communication from NHibernate(.Net) and Hibernate(Java) through to the database.

Who they are Ayende Rahien contributed efforts on the back-end development.

Chris Bennage and Rob Eisenberg contributed their efforts to the front- end.

Time and location of the meetings Times below are Central Daylight Time Start Time: Oct 28, Each week 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours End Time: Oct 28, Each week 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours Attendee URL: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/van

This week on VAN: Ayende Rahien talks about NH Profiler

2009-10-20T04:42:00.001-07:00

Topic

A three way conversation with the main collaborators who created NH Profiler. This tool enables developers to gain a deeper insight into profiling their applications communication from NHibernate(.Net) and Hibernate(Java) through to the database.

Who they are

Ayende Rahien contributed efforts on the back-end development.

Chris Bennage and Rob Eisenberg contributed their efforts to the front-end.

Time and location of the meetings

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Oct 21 and 28, Each week 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Oct 21 and 28, Each week 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

VAN: An evening of Questions and Sharing of group opinions regarding DDD pragmatic concepts facilitated by David Laribee October 14, 2009

2009-10-05T19:20:00.001-07:00

Topic

In the spirit of Open Spaces we will be bringing in David Laribee to facilitate a discussion of opinions on Domain Driven Design.a

Who is Dave?

He is a coach for the product development team at VersionOne. He has 12 years experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Agile teams. David has worked on internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent speaker at local and national developer events. He was awarded a Microsoft Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008 and writes about Agile and Lean methods, coaching, and software design on the CodeBetter blog network.

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

VAN:S#arp Architecture Revisited – Advanced Techniques – November 4, 2009

2009-09-09T18:25:00.001-07:00

Topic

Billy McCafferty will join us once again on the heels of releasing Service Pack 1 for S#arp Architecture version 1. He will spend some time reviewing feature improvements, changes and add more context to the framework where time was not permitted in the first meeting. If you have any specific questions you would like addressed during the evening please add a question to our group and we will make sure Billy is ready to answer it.

Bio

Who is and what makes this Billy McCafferty guy tick? Well he is a long time developer and a hopeless romantic when it comes to writing beautiful software. Billy currently leads a double life between helping to run the world's greatest IT training school at http://www.itsamuraischool.com/ and filling the part-time role of lead developer and architect with Parsons Brinckerhoff. Billy is enjoying getting a bit of his life back after the recent release S#arp Architecture 1.0 and is currently hard at work on the first quarterly release later in September of 2009.

What is VAN?

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time
convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, November 4, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, November 4, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

Reminder: VAN: Claudio Lassala presents the S in SOLID Hide options

2009-09-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

Tonight Claudio Lassala will be commencing his month long presentation beginning with The Single Responsibility Principle. See you all there for some enlightening discussion.

Zach and John

Weekly meeting cancellations August 26 and September 2, 2009

2009-08-26T11:18:00.000-07:00

With the heat of the summer winding down and without any firm commitments from speakers we have decided to cancel these two evenings. See you all in September with Claudio and SOLID.

Zach and John

VAN: Jeremy Miller on Screen Architectures and Separated Presentation patterns on Aug 12

2009-08-10T19:50:00.001-07:00

Topic

Jeremy Miller will be speaking again on Virtual ALT.NET this Wednesday (Aug 12, 2009), but this time on Screen Architectures and Separated Presentation patterns (MVP, MVVM).

Who is Jeremy Miller?

Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest shop in all of Austin. Jeremy is also the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller tool for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net. Jeremy is also the author of the Patterns in Practice column in MSDN Magazine. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog The Shade Tree Developer part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#, and very active within the ALT.NET community.

What is VAN?

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, August 12, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, August 12, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

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VAN: Jeremy Miller talking about Screen Activation Lifecycle August 5th

2009-08-02T19:01:00.001-07:00

Topic

Jeremy Miller will be talking about Screen Activation Lifecycle. On his blog he posted the following about the talk:

I will be presenting some preliminary material from my "Presentation Patterns" book on Virtual ALT.NET during the first two weeks of August. For August 5th I'm going to talk about what I call the "Screen Activation Lifecycle." Think of an application like Visual Studio that is constantly loading and destroying screens. How can we activate a new screen and synchronize the application shell to reflect the options for the new screen? How do you locate and activate an existing screen for a requested subject instead of opening a duplicate screen? How do you remember state to do web browser type navigation? And oh yeah, how can you do this in a way that enables you to easily add all new screens later (OCP baby!)? To start some answers going, I'd like to present some reocurring design patterns I've found useful for these problems. I'll definitely be talking about a "Tabbed MDI" application shell for the first talk and maybe a web browser style shell (depends on how I do in prepping). I'll also touch on "View First" vs "Presenter/ViewModel First."

I'm really hoping for some feedback on the material here and I'd love to have any and all criticism or suggestions. I've got 5 days to prepare as well, so if there's anything in specific about this topic that you're interested, please drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do. I'm thinking that the second week of August to talk about Separated Presentation patterns. There's an almost infinite store of good content on these patterns and the important differences between them, but not many developers have a strong understanding of these differences. I think I'm going to give up and go with MVVM in my nomenclature. I do think it just MS's renaming of Presentation Model, but I think far more people are familiar with the term MVVM and well, that matters.

Who is Jeremy Miller?

What is VAN?

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

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VAN: Lessons learned building NH Profiler with Ayende Rahien, Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg Oct 21 and Oct 28, 2009

2009-07-22T17:52:00.001-07:00

Topic

Who they are

Ayende Rahien contributed efforts on the back-end development.

Chris Bennage and Rob Eisenberg contributed their efforts to the front-end.

Time and location of the meetings

VAN: Claudio Lassala presents a series on the SOLID Principles to Virtual ALT.NET

2009-07-20T20:19:00.000-07:00

Details

Claudio will be presenting five consecutive meetings discussing each principle outlined below with samples and then open discussion. It is hoped that we can have an active discussion on each of the topics with an open sharing of sample code, experiences and thoughts. He would like you to contact him through his blog if you have suggestions and ideas that can make the meetings as valuable as possible. More details to follow so stay tuned.

Who is Claudio?

Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC Brazil and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award since 2001 (for Visual FoxPro in 2001-2002, and for C# every since), an INETA speaker, and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. More detailed information regarding his presentations and articles can be found in his MVP Profile.

Summary of dates and Meeting topic

Sept 9: SRP (Single Responsibility Principle)
Sept 16: OCP (Open Closed Principle)
Sept 23: LSP (Liskov Substitution Principle)
Sept 30: ISP (Interface Segregation Principle)
Oct 7: DIP (Dependency Inversion Principle)

Time and location of the meetings

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, Each week 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, Each week 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

VAN: Jeremy Miller discusses Presentation Patterns for Virtual ALT.NET in August 2009

2009-07-16T21:40:00.001-07:00

Topic

Still being fleshed out. Jeremy would like your votes on the content. Here is the list of topics as a start. Check out his post and add your vote and comments.

Separated Presentation patterns. You know, what are your options, why are they different, and when would you choose one or another for a particular scenario. Model View Presenter variants and Presentation Model (MVVM).
"Screen Activation Lifecycle" -- Design patterns and the system responsibilities for systems composed of multiple screens
DSL development within a desktop application.
Test Automation strategies. How testability impacts design
Event Aggregation
Managing the application shell
Using an IoC tool within a desktop application for extensibility

Who is Jeremy Miller?

Meeting Detail

The month of August. Exact dates and times will be confirmed in a few days.

VAN: An evening with Scott Bellware discussing the myth of developer productivity August 19, 2009

2009-07-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

Topic

The myth of developer productivity.

Scott’s Bio

Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and the AgileATX communities of software practitioners. He is the organizer of the upcoming MonoSpace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and has served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. He is the recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.

Meeting Details

Times below are expressed in Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Wed, August 19, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Wed, August 19, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN: An evening of Questions and Sharing of group opinions regarding DDD pragmatic concepts facilitated by David Laribee July 29, 2009

2009-07-15T20:08:00.000-07:00

Topic

In the spirit of Open Spaces we will be bringing in David Laribee to facilitate a discussion of opinions on Domain Driven Design.

Who is Dave?

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, July 29, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, July 29, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

VAN: Jean-Paul Sylvain Boodhoo in Town for July 15

2009-07-12T16:21:00.001-07:00

Lets discuss elements of our jobs...environments..and even personalities which can prevent us from achieving levels of productivity that we strive for but all to often fail to meet. I hope to offer suggestions that can remove the brakes and add the much needed nitrous oxide that can propel us forward.

JP is an independent consultant that spends most of my days helping teams realize success throught the adoption and applicaiton of pragmatic development practices.

JP has a passion for sharing information with the development community which he does primarily through training and secondarily with my blog.

When not developing he can be found relaxing with his amazing wife and our four beautiful kids.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

VAN: Web Development using Castle with Ryan Svihla

2009-07-06T12:08:00.001-07:00

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio since September 2007. Before that he worked as a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for 3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of course C#. Attempting Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus on making programming more useful and relevant for the end user.

Have a look at the first popular MVC .Net based web framework. Also will be covering persistence with ActiveRecord, and view templates using Brail. Bonus, will demo a plug-in framework for building CMS like applications.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Give VAN some BUZZ

2009-06-28T11:46:00.001-07:00

Ok everybody, I want to ask everyone to create a little BUZZ for VAN. Starting Sunday I want everyone to do something to get the word about what we are doing with VAN. There are still thousands of people who have never heard of Virtual ALT.NET.

I feel the best way get to the word out is by word of mouth. The following list is just some examples of what you could do. You might choose to do all of them, or just one. Maybe you have other ways. Be sure to include Virtual ALT.NET in your message. Also create a Google Alert and let’s see what happens this week.

Write a blog about what is Virtual ALT.NET
Write a blog about Virtual ALT.NET becoming an INETA usergroup.
Write a blog about an upcoming event.
Write a blog about a past event you attended.
Send a tweet to your friends inventing them to attend the next meeting.
Tweet about the next meeting.
Tweet about us being a new INETA group.
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet anything about Virtual ALT.NET.
Start a discussion on you favorite email group about Virtual ALT.NET.
. Start a discussion on you favorite Facebook group about Virtual ALT.NET.
. Start a discussion on you favorite Linkedin group about Virtual ALT.NET
Send out an email to your local user group.
Tell someone at work about Virtual ATL.NET

What other ways can we use to get the word out about Virtual ALT.NET?