25 Nov
For those of you who missed out on the first NYC Agile Firestarter that the NY ALT.NET User Group and the NY .NET User Group jointly organized in June of 2009, I just wanted to announce that there is a ‘sister’ event coming soon to the Central NJ Area: The Central NJ .NET Agile Firestarter! [...]
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29 Jun
For those who didn’t manage to attend the Agile Firestarter 2009 Event this past Saturday in NYC (details here), the videos from the first two sessions have now been posted to Vimeo for viewing at the following URLs…
Introduction To Agile (with yours-truly presenting)
Agile Estimation (with Steve Forte presenting)
Over the coming weeks, look for more videos [...]
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03 Jun
I know many are too remote from the NYC metro area to attend this event, but all day Saturday 6/27 some of us organizers in the local .NET community down here are holding an event we are calling the ‘Agile Firestarter’ for .NET developers interested in learning more about Agile software development techniques and practices.
The [...]
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23 May
If you missed the April 2009 NYC ALT.NET user group meeting on Continuous Integration and automated builds, you can still check out the videos of the meeting on Vimeo here.
For this meeting, our usual videographer, Alex Hung, actually delivered the presentation himself so that camera work was by another of our group organizers, Yitzchok Gottlieb [...]
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23 May
For those who couldn’t make the meeting, the videos of the March 2009 NYC ALT.NET user group have been posted for viewing on Vimeo here. As usual, our group’s resident videographer, Alex Hung, is to be thanked for the effort of both capturing this video and post-processing it to get it ready for posting.
For the [...]
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05 Mar
For those who couldn’t attend last month’s ALT.NET NYC user group meeting, the tireless efforts of fellow organizer Alex Hung have once again resulted in the availability of some high-quality videos of the event for anyone interested in watching how our group behaves when it meets
This month’s topic was Introduction to Inversion of Control [...]
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01 Mar
Or: ‘How I attended a Conference real-time from the comfort of my own Home Office’
This is a blog post about how I ended up spending much of my weekend attending the ALT.NET Seattle 2009 conference without having to actually get on a plane (or book a room).
For those of you who don’t know, ALT.NET Seattle [...]
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05 Feb
In case you are interested in following along and couldn’t attend our recent January 2009 ALT.NET NYC user group meeting on Domain Driven Design, one of my fellow group organizers (Alex Hung) has just posted the full videos to VIMEO for general viewing.
In addition to our regular attendees, this time our group was also joined [...]
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03 Jan
As 2008 comes to an end and 2009 starts to ramp up, I thought it might be interesting (for me at least!) to look back at some of the important events and changes in 2008 that have most impacted my professional life as a software developer.
The Year of Community
If I had to sum-up what 2008 [...]
Posted in ALT.NET NYC User Group, Autumn of Agile, Summer of NHibernate by: sbohlen
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13 Nov
Just wanted to point out that the videos for the most-recent ALT.NET NYC meeting have just been posted for viewing. In this meeting we had the benefit of a guest appearance by the famous weary traveler Oren Eini, better known as Ayende Rahien, the creator of RhinoMocks, and contributor to various well-known OSS projects like [...]
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