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DC ALT.NET
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.
Events
DC ALT.NET - 4/28 - Introduction to CoffeeScript 4/28/11 7PM - 9PM
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CoffeeScript is a new language that embodies the the essentials of JavaScript without the verbosity. It compiles directly to JavaScript...
DC ALT.NET 2/24 - Introduction to Razor 2/24/11 7PM - 9PM
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Introduction to Razor Learn the process, advantages and mindset that go into developing applications using Razor. Walkthrough existing...
DC ALT.NET - 12/14: Unleash your Domain 12/14/10 7PM - 9PM
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Session: Unleash Your Domain Our application runs over 10,000 sustained transactions per second with a rich model. The key? Modeling state...
DC ALT.NET - 11/17 - Exploring Domain Driven Design Implementation Patterns in .NET 11/17/10 7PM - 9PM
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Title: Exploring Domain Driven Design Implementation Patterns in .NETDescription:Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a pattern language developed...
DC ALT.NET - 10/27 - Pub Night with Jimmy Bogard 10/27/10 7PM - 10PM
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Since Jimmy Bogard, the creator of AutoMapper and other projects and fellow CodeBetter blog network blogger, is in town teaching an Agile...
DC ALT.NET 9/30/2010 - The Current State of Package Management in .NET 9/30/10 7PM - 9PM
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The Current State of Package Management in .NET ASP.NET package management has been under the microscope in recent years with Ruby Gems...
DC ALT.NET 8/26/2010 - Reactive Extensions 8/26/10 7PM - 9PM
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For the second time, I'll present at DC ALT.NET, this time on the Reactive Extensions for .NET and JavaScript. Below are the...
DC ALT.NET - 7/28/2010 - ASP.NET MVC View Engines 7/28/10 7PM - 9PM
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Session: View Engines: Razor, Spark, & NHAML Overview: You may be asking yourself, "Self, what is a view engine and why would I want...
DC ALT.NET - 6/30 - Introduction to Mercurial 6/30/10 7PM - 9PM
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The next meeting of DC ALT.NET on 6/30, we have a follow-on to our Git presentation, this time on Mercurial with Buck Dunn. Overview:...
DC ALT.NET 5/27/2010 - Ramp up on ASP.NET MVC 2 5/27/10 7PM - 9PM
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The next DC ALT.NET meeting is 5/27 where we have Roberto Hernandez to talk about ASP.NET MVC 2. Below is a description of the talk in...
DC ALT.NET - 4/27 - What has Mono Done for .NET Developers Lately? 4/27/10 7PM - 9PM
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What has Mono done for .NET developers Lately? Mono is an open-source, cross-platform implementation of the .NETframework based on the...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 3/2010 - Working Effectively with Git 4/7/10 7PM - 9PM
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This month we have the co-founder of DC ALT.NET to come and talk to us about Git. Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) have risen to...
DC ALT.NET Meeting - 2/2010 2/24/10 7PM - 9PM
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A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right System Presenter: George Dinwiddie, Software Development CoachDescription:The...
DC ALT.NET 1/27/2010 - Clojure with Craig Andera 1/27/10 7PM - 9PM
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The next meeting of DC ALT.NET will be held on Wednesday, 1/27 from 7-9PM. This month we have Craig Andera to talk about Clojure.So, what...
DC ALT.NET Meeting - 11/2009 11/24/09 7PM - 9PM
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Stop Talking, Start Teaching: 5 Rules for Successful Presentations & Demos Some of the most important work we do as programmers...
DC ALT.NET Meeting - 10/2009 10/22/09 7PM - 9PM
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This month DC ALT.NET will once again move into the not often covered subjects in the .NET world, in covering MongoDB with David James. ...
DC ALT.NET Meeting - 9/2009 9/10/09 7PM - 9PM
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Getting Some REST with Erlang and Webmachine Kevin Smith of Hypothetical Labs will be speaking about WebMachine: an erlang REST toolkit...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 8/2009 8/26/09 7PM - 9PM
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jQuery UI and the jQuery UI CSS Framework jQuery UI, built on top of jQuery, is a complete set of behaviors and components that can be...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 7/2009 7/22/09 7PM - 9PM
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Naked JavaScript Chris Williams JavaScript is the most commonly known and widely distributed programming language ever, but until...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 5/2009 6/10/09 7PM - 9PM
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The June 2009 meeting of DC ALT.NET will be held on June 10th, 2009 from 7-9PM. This month, we are going to be talking Behavior Driven...
DC ALT.NET 5/2009 5/27/09 7PM - 9PM
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Abstract Come along to write some real C# code using Test Driven Development through pairing. The intent of this presentation is to...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 4/2009 4/29/09 7PM - 9PM
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Continuing with our back to basics series which started last month with an introduction to Test Driven Development, this month we are...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 3/2009 3/25/09 7PM - 9PM
Abstract Come along to write some real C# code using Test Driven Developmentand mocks. We will work on a problem and talk through how...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 2/2009 2/25/09 7PM - 9PM
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For the February 2009 meeting of DC ALT.NET will be held on February 25th from 7-9PM. In this session, we will have Paolo del Mundo giving...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/2009 1/28/09 7PM - 9PM
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All:I'm announcing the January 2009 meeting of DC ALT.NET. This month we're having Jay Flowers talk about web testing with Selenium and...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 12/2008 Pub Night 12/17/08 7PM - 9PM
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Come join us for a pub night to celebrate the first year anniversary of the group's first meeting. Bring along some hack projects and your...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 11/2008 11/25/08 7PM - 9PM
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The November 2008 DC ALT.NET meeting will be on 11/25/2008 from 7-9PM. This month we will have John Morales talk about web testing...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 10/2008 10/21/08 7PM - 9PM
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A Look at Kanban Software Development Presenter: Linda CookDescription:Kanban is gaining popularity thanks to a growing number of folks,...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 9/2008 9/24/08 7PM - 9PM
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This month's DC ALT.NET meeting will be "Building ASP.NET MVC Applications" with Troy Goode. In this session, we'll be building an ASP.NET...
DC ALT.NET Meeting 8/2008 8/28/08 7PM - 9PM
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This month's DC ALT.NET meeting will be "Approaching Ruby" with Jeff Schoolcraft. In this session, we'll cover how to approach Ruby from a...
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