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DC ALT.NET - 4/28 - Introduction to CoffeeScript

Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Alexandria, VA

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CoffeeScript is a new language that embodies the the essentials of JavaScript without the verbosity. It compiles directly to JavaScript which means it runs in any JavaScript environment like your favorite web browser or Node.js. Recently Ruby on Rails announced direct support for CoffeeScript in version 3.1, and CoffeeScript seems to be gaining more popularity every day. This talk introduces CoffeeScript's syntax, idioms, scoping and context rules, and how it directly supports class-based OO (which you might or might not think is a good thing), as well other cool features.

About our Speaker:

Scott Leberknight is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for 15 years professionally. His main areas of interest include alternative persistence technologies, big-data technologies like Hadoop, object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, and Ruby on Rails. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to "learn one language per year" -- most recently CoffeeScript! In his (sparse) spare time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. He also tries to find time to play soccer, go snowboarding, and mountain bike whenever he can.

 

 

 

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Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)


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Who We Are

DC ALT.NET is a DC/Baltimore metro area user group associated with the wider "ALT.NET community.

What is ALT.NET?
At it's purest, the driving force behind the ALT.NET developer community may be described simply as "The pursuit of happiness." While Microsoft has provided developers with a powerful framework and a bunch of very good tools and packages to build upon, it often feels like too much effort was put into a "one-size-fits-all" design philosophy that can make it complex, tedious, or just plain impossible to do things that don't follow Microsoft's prescribed approach.

With other development platforms and languages offering so much choice (Java and it's many quality open source offerings) and elegance (Ruby on Rails with its "beautiful" code and "convention over configuration" philosophy), .NET developers longed to craft cleaner, more elegant solutions without having to leave a framework that has so much to offer.

ALT.NET is about following your own beliefs about application design, and using the .NET platform to support your ideas, rather than retro-fitting your ideas to the platform. While none of these things is a requirement to "being ALT.NET," the community openly embraces:

    * Agile, Scrum, XP
    * Open Source Packages and Frameworks
    * Test Driven Development/Design
    * Behavior Driven Development/Design
    * Domain Driven Development/Design


ALT.NET is not about spurning Microsoft's platform and tools - it is about being able to decide when it makes sense to use them, having control over how they are used, and having the option to go in another direction without having to abandon the framework.