Welcome to the Indy ALT.NET Community!

Posted Sun, 12/21/2008 - 12:08am 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 at Ivy Tech on the north side of town at Meridian and Fall Creek but sometimes meet elsewhere so be sure to check in monthly!
 
Come join us!

Dealing with Dependencies

Posted Thu, 03/04/2010 - 8:48am by jonfuller
Date/Time: 
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Jon Fuller

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.
 

Change

Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:37pm by Shane
Date/Time: 
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Leon Gersing

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.

Managing Technical Debt Fishbowl

Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 2:31pm by Shane
Date/Time: 
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

You!!

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.

Mobile Development (iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Android)

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:47pm by Shane
Date/Time: 
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Auri Rahimzadeh - iPhone

Sasha Kotlyar - Windows Mobile

Michael Brown - Android

The mobile development craze comes to Indy ALT.NET! We've got the three hottest platforms that are competing for consumers' money - iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile - and we'll compare and contrast application development for each of them, as well as their respective centralized application marketplaces and what it takes to submit your apps to them.
Pizza Holiday feast (complete with roast beast and more!) and chatter are at 5:30, and the technology discussions begin at 6PM.

Security Fishbowl

Posted Fri, 10/23/2009 - 8:34am by jonfuller
Date/Time: 
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

You! (and Me)

Time for another fishbowl.  W00t!
This time we're going to talk about security.  And yes, you're right, that is COMPLETELY vague, that's kind of the point.
Ryan will moderate us, keep us on track, and provide us with other gentle prodding as necessary.
If you have any topics you'd like to talk about in particular, please, come with them in mind, or post them in the comments here.
Pizza will arrive around 5:30, and the fishbowl will start around 6:00.
 

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