Posted Sun, 12/21/2008 - 1:08am by SuperAdmin
We are an ALT.NET group based in Indianapolis and we will meet the third Thursday of the month with the main event beginning at 6pm. We welcome anybody and everybody who works with .NET technology, design patterns, system architecture, or anything else us geeks work with and would like to improve! We typically meet on the north side of town so be sure to check in monthly to find us!
Come join us!
Posted Thu, 08/26/2010 - 8:54pm by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 5:30pm
MongoDB is one of an emerging class of data stores that is part of the NoSQL movement. It mixes the ability to have a rich data model and rich querying, with the flexibility of schema-free development and horizontal scalability of some of its NoSQL peers. I'll give a brief overview of the system, and show some code and a couple interactive demos to demonstrate the power and simplicity of working with MongoDB.
Posted Fri, 08/06/2010 - 8:21am by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 5:30pm
Love your team? Hate your team? Wish you had a team?
I'm a little verklempt... talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic (or several):
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:17am by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 5:30pm
There is a saying about experience, "Do you have 10 years of experience, or one year 10 times over?" It embodies the dichotomy of, "Practice makes perfect," vs, "just noodling around."
Deliberate Practice will help you make the most of your time. Understand the theory of practice and how it will accelerate your professional development.
Note: Important Driving Directions!
Posted Wed, 06/09/2010 - 12:29pm by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s):
You, and Phil Japikse (@skimedic)
TDD is tough and can be a bear to actually get started practicing.
Phil Japikse (@skimedic) is going to host a Dojo for us so we can practice our TDD skills.
Come prepared to get up and write a test or two, and feel free to bring your laptop and follow along as well.
Note: Important Driving Directions!
Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 4:11pm by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s):
Mike Brown (Silverlight) - @browniepoints
Alex Conner (Flex) - @gk4r
Dave Mathew (jQuery) - @mathewda
It's our 3rd birthday, and we're having an all out RIA smackdown.
- Not sure which platform to pick?
- Not sure of the capabilities of each
- Want to see a similar app developed in Silverlight, Flex and jQuery?
- Want to make fun of the JavaFX dudes (and dudettes!)?
Did I mention it was our birthday?
The terrible two's are over, and we're going to give out a ton of swag to kick off our third year:
Posted Wed, 04/07/2010 - 3:02pm by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 5:30pm
WTF is a WTF lightning talk?
This is an opportunity for you to brag/sob about your latest and greatest/worst snafus (and hopefully a lesson or two you learned from it).
Groundrules:
Posted Thu, 03/04/2010 - 9:48am by jonfuller
Date/Time:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 5:30pm
Our software has become more and more complex. Managing all the details and how to wire all your objects together in a flexible manner that enables testing and rapid development becomes increasingly difficult, almost prohibitively so.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 3:37pm by Shane
Date/Time:
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 5:30pm
The only constant in life is change. How do we prepare for change? Should we? In this session, I will go over changes relating to the smallest unit in our code base up into our careers. What does DRY really mean? When is too much YAGNI too much? When is it not enough? Should I change where I work or change where I work? The intention of this session is to open ourselves to change, understand how to make the change we would like to see and how to be the change we want to see in the world. This session is a frank and open discussion of software craftsmanship, career building and the nature of existing in the world of software development.
Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 3:31pm by Shane
Date/Time:
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 5:30pm
NEW LOCATION! See the details below!!
We all want to create the perfectly-designed systems, who doesn't? But unfortunately, this is not always a reality. We want to spend an extra week to make sure a certain module is nice and tidy, but you simply cannot afford a week delay to the deadline to do this. What do you do? You know that leaving it a mess is the quick approach and that when you release, the system will still work just fine. But you also know that's not the right thing to do. You know leaving it this way will come back to bite you. For this exact reason, this is why we call these sorts of shortcuts (and many others) Technical Debt. You benefit from it now only to pay for it later.
