Architecture Chat this Thursday 26th August – 11:30am – Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics:

• NSubstitute – Another .Net mocking framework.
• More lightswitch discussions (yawn)
• Castle Windsor 2.5
• NHibernate Designer from Mindscape
• RestCake – Yet another REST framework for .Net
• Boat – sinatra inspired web framework for C#
• JQuery Mobile, and Sencha Touch – javascript mobile touch frameworks.
• What would you like to see Microsoft do with IronRuby?

For those people attending the Architecture Chat this week Mindscape have kindly offered to provide licenses of their NHibernate designer tool – more details will be given at the chat.

The wave for this week can be found here – if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also don’t forget that Code Camp is this Sunday, August 29th.  You can see the list of sessions and plan your day on the website here.  It’s bigger and better then ever before this year, so it should be a great event!

See you all tomorrow!

The Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 5th of August 2010, 11:30am, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics for discussion:

• Padrino - Interesting looking ruby web framework built on top of sinatra.rb
• Gerrit - Very interesting code review tool for Git hosted code - from Google. It's what they use for Code reviews on the Android code base. Example site up here - https://review.source.android.com/ CR on DVCS' is kinda tricky - this seems to solve things nicely.
• Apple Unveils New 27-inch LED Cinema Display - USD$999 – that’s actually a good price for a hi res (not 1080p) IPS monitor.  Also phasing out 24” and 30”.
• Microsoft.Data released – and it’s  drawing criticism too.
• Package Management in .Net (Nu)
• ILMerge to the resuce?
• Figment – web DSL for F#
• HQL Language support in visual studio
• Visual Studio LightSwitch
• Akka
• Mirah programming language looks interesting.
• EAV, Document Databases and creating hybrid solutions (or migrating from one to another).

The wave this week can be found here.  If you want to raise topics for next time either email them, start a wave, or post them on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also coming up this month:

• Google bar camp - Saturday 21st August, 2010.  People are still cancelling, so I believe slots are freeing up quite regularly.
• Auckland Code Camp – Sunday August 29th 2010.   Shaping up to be a great event.

See you all tomorrow.

Chat Tomorrow

It’s been a while, but it’s back again – the North Shore Architecture Chat is happening tomorrow (22nd July) – starting at 11:30am.

Location will again be the “New Brew” pub, unless anyone else has a better suggestion.

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Suggested topics for this week:

• Alt.net => No.net - seems like this is an increasing trend.
• http://aspnetresources.com/blog/closing_doors
• http://blog.wekeroad.com/2010/06/21/i-smell-smoke
• http:// herdingcode .com/?p=256
• .Net culture shock
• NDC 2010 video - The Next Big Thing Or Cool-Kid Koolaid? Slicing Through The Rhetoric of MVC vs. WebForms.
• Razor - new MS view engine specifically for asp.net MVC - wtf?
• http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-i-love-everything-you-hate-about-java/
• Yahoo Beacon - measure page bandwidth/latency in the wild. YSlow for live websites/clients.
• Webmatrix - how it fits together
• Caliburn.Micro - WPF, Silverlight and WP7 - looking interesting.
• Android AppInventor - It's like scratch for mobile apps.
• Windows Azure Appliance (another link here)
• CodeCamp Registration now open.
• Auckland google barcamp still has a slot free...
• KnockoutJS.
• Eric Sink announces Veracity - a new OSS DVCS (with commercial addon's coming)
• Javascript DSLs
• http://edspencer.github.com/jaml/
• http://github.com/jed/fab

If anyone else has topic suggestions, please leave a comment here – or add them to the list on this public wave.

See you all tomorrow!

Just a quick note – we were due to have an Architecture chat this Thursday, but I’m a little snowed under – so I’m going to postpone it until the following Thursday (22nd July 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park).

We are collecting topics on this wave – feel free to post suggestions on google wave, via email or on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

See you all next week!

- Alex

Architecture Chat tomorrow – Thursday 1st July at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Starting at the usual time of 11:30 am.

Some possible topics for this week:

• NDC2010 content.
• Apple hates left handed people - iPhone 4 antenna issues.
• Another non-sql option - membase.org.
• NetBeans 6.9 released.
• Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" - UI focus/refocus.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab talking about DSL's.
• NPanday 1.2 released (.Net Integration for Apache Maven - yes we can have Maven pain too :)
• Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.1 released.
• Clojure web framework Compojure 0.4 released.
• Keith's SeaTest c unit testing framework.
• Ayende's Challenge: Dynamically Dynamic.
• Silverlight Pivot View now available.
• Modelling Hierarchical structures in RavenDB (or most document databases).
• SilverLight Event Throttling.
• CoffeeScript.
• Introducing IIS Express.
• Squealer - a ruby DSL for ETL-ing mongodb docs to MySql/postgreSql.
• ORM Phase Shift - discussion about Doc databases + squealer + ORM’s etc...
• New Network design could make internet much faster
• Hammett e-van recording - Comparing MEF with IOC Containers.
• Plus all the topics from last time (we didn’t really cover any of them…)

The wave this week can be found here.  If you want to raise topics for next time either email them, start a wave, or post them on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also coming up:

• Wednesday 30th June – 6pm – AucklandSQL meeting - “What’s new in SQL Server 2008 R2”
• Next Thursday – 8th July – 11:30am – North Shore Architecture Chat (Tentatively).