The First Architecture Chat for the year is on this Thursday, 26th January, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

• ZeroMQ
• Bootstrap including a nice article from the boot strap creators.
• “Thats what she said” JS library
• Comparing strings in unit tests
• Code52
• Samsung’s Smart Window @ CES
• Belay – secure web programming framework
• WAT talk
• Another lite NoSql - DynamoDB from Amazon
• BrowserID
• For-if anti-pattern
• DotNet demon

See you all there!

It’s that time again, The Auckland Architecture Chat will be held tomorrow, 11:30am onwards at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Lenses in F#
• Future of JavaScript talk from Yui! Conf 2011
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 is out
• Scala feels like EJB2
• Sql Server Denali (v.next)
• Project Crescent
• Data Explorer
• Scriptus
• JabbR
• Ultimate privacy monitor
• Why have a stack?
• Reflection, performance and runtime code generation
• JSON.Net 4.0 r4
• MagLev 1.0 released

Most topics this week were collected here, and the last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat, Thursday 10th November 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

• Korma - SQL DSL for Clojure
• Mustache for Java
• Agile - 10 years after
• Autobox - yet another .Net IOC container
• OpenRA - Open source C&C/Red Alert clone in C#
• F#
• F# web sockets
• Fracture IO
• That query language thing I was working on is out now (TQL)
• Java posse had a roundup on interviewing/hiring, some interesting thoughts on true character under pressure etc.
• Make it matter
• Seasteading.. good grief
• Future of interaction design
• CoffeeScript 1.1.3 is out
• The social graph is neither

Topics this week were collected here, and last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat, Thursday 27th October 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

• Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features
• Oracle does NoSql too now
• R.I.P
• Steve Jobs
• Dennis Ritchie
• John McCarthy (Lambda The Ultimate has a writeup too)
• Roslyn Project 
• Roslyn Layers
• Roslyn VS Extensions
• SQL Server 2012 announced
• CQRS is too complicated?

This weeks topics were collected here.

See you all tomorrow.

It’s time again for another Architecture Chat, Thursday, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics for this week:

• Node JS
  • C# 5 inspired async/await for node.js
  • node.js is a cancer and straight talk on event loops
  • Porting node to windows discussion on herding code
• Mozilla Web Secure Coding Guidelines
• Google JS test - JS testing framework from Google
• Raven Overflow - Video on building stack overflow clone with RavenDB
• Nugit - Automatically create/publish nuget packages from git repositories
• Dart language discussions
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098435
  • http://requestforlogic.blogspot.com/2011/10/incomplete-by-design-thought-on-dart.html
  • http://blogs.perl.org/users/rafael_garcia-suarez/2011/10/why-dart-is-not-the-language-of-the-future.html
• Dynamic local host on windows phone 7
• SPDY is used by Amazon's Silk browser
  • ..and interesting musings from F5 on what SPDY enabled layer 7 switching looks like
• NoSql and Philosophy / lack of dogma

See you all there!