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Its time for the semi-annual “What is ALT.NET and what does it mean to me?” introspection merry-go-round.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: introspection is a healthy form of self-review and an expression of self-awareness for both people and organizations/movements/shared-value-systems/whatever ALT.NET might be. The last time this theme surfaced (to my knowledge) [...]
This is a public call for greater community participation in the Virtual Alt.Net online community for 2010 and beyond.
What is Virtual Alt.Net?
Virtual Alt.Net is an online community that met weekly over the past year or so utilizing Live Meeting as a platform for exposing as many people as possible to software development concepts and [...]
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! [...]
At yesterday’s Philadelphia .NET CodeCamp, I was again wearing my somewhat tongue-in-cheek custom t-shirt with the following platitude on the front and the succinct summary of what I consider to be ALT.NET’s primary raison-d’etre on the reverse side:
As those readers who either attended the Agile Firestarter event in June or watched any of the [...]
I just completed spending my Saturday at the Philadelphia-area .NET CodeCamp 2009.2 event (I actually have to say ‘2009.2’ because this event apparently happens at least two or three times each year, as hard as it is for me to believe that they put all that energy into planning/executing it more than once a year).
I [...]
No sooner had I completed this post about the somewhat unmanageable list of things I had committed to for Autumn, than I was contacted by Peter Laudati, one of our local NYC-area Microsoft Developer Evangelists and asked if I would be willing to speak at an upcoming ASP.NET MVC Firestarter event on October 3rd, 2009. [...]
I’ve recently become slowly more aware that its starting to take me longer and longer to respond to people who contact me, look into resolving issues that people bring to my attention, complete tasks within deadlines that I’ve committed to, and otherwise meet my obligations to others.
As I started to think about why this might [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
