Loren Halvorson will speak on Continuous Integration. This is a great topic to
help make all of our development lives that much easier to manage.

Same location at the library -- 2nd Floor, Conference Room N-202, 6:00 to 7:30

I'll bring the water and we'll head over to the Loon afterwards again for a few
drinks.

Should be another good evening.

I'm looking to hire someone for fulltime (not contract) work in Eden
Prairie. Please email me privately (will.shaver@...) for
details. I don't want to spam the group with the entire job post, but
I know that jobs can be difficult to come by these days. :)

  -Will

Topic

Jeremy Miller will be talking about Screen Activation Lifecycle.  On his blog he
posted the following about the talk:

I will be presenting some preliminary material from my "Presentation Patterns"
book on Virtual ALT.NET during the first two weeks of August.  For August 5th
I'm going to talk about what I call the "Screen Activation Lifecycle."  Think of
an application like Visual Studio that is constantly loading and destroying
screens.  How can we activate a new screen and synchronize the application shell
to reflect the options for the new screen?  How do you locate and activate an
existing screen for a requested subject instead of opening a duplicate screen? 
How do you remember state to do web browser type navigation?  And oh yeah, how
can you do this in a way that enables you to easily add all new screens later
(OCP baby!)?  To start some answers going, I'd like to present some reocurring
design patterns I've found useful for these problems.  I'll definitely be
talking about a "Tabbed MDI" application shell for the first talk and maybe a
web browser style shell (depends on how I do in prepping).  I'll also touch on
"View First" vs "Presenter/ViewModel First."

I'm really hoping for some feedback on the material here and I'd love to have
any and all criticism or suggestions.  I've got 5 days to prepare as well, so if
there's anything in specific about this topic that you're interested, please
drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do.  I'm thinking that the second week
of August to talk about Separated Presentation patterns.  There's an almost
infinite store of good content on these patterns and the important differences
between them, but not many developers have a strong understanding of these
differences.  I think I'm going to give up and go with MVVM in my nomenclature. 
I do think it just MS's renaming of Presentation Model, but I think far more
people are familiar with the term MVVM and well, that matters.

Who is Jeremy Miller?
Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest shop in
all of Austin. Jeremy is also the author of the open source StructureMap tool
for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller tool for
supercharged acceptance testing in .Net. Jeremy is also the author of the
Patterns in Practice column in MSDN Magazine. Jeremy's thoughts on just about
everything software related can be found on his weblog The Shade Tree Developer
part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#, and very
active within the ALT.NET community.

What is VAN?
Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community.
Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to
improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net
conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings,
open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space
Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to
you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the
Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET
Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Meeting Details
Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

www.virtualaltnet.com

Topic
In the spirit of Open Spaces we will be bringing in David Laribee to facilitate
a discussion of opinions on Domain Driven Design.

Who is Dave?
He is a coach for the product development team at VersionOne. He has 12 years
experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Agile
teams. David has worked on internal IT, product development, consulting, and
rapid prototyping teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent
speaker at local and national developer events. He was awarded a Microsoft
Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008 and writes about Agile and Lean methods,
coaching, and software design on the CodeBetter blog network.

Meeting Details
Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, July 22, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, July 22, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

We'll be back in August 20th at the same location for Loren Halvorson's talk on
continuous integration. Jim Swanson will bring the nHibernate back in October.

We're still looking for a more suitable location with a decent projector for our
autumn meetings. If anyone has a line on something, let us know.

Sorry for the late notice.

Enjoy your summer evening!

Lets discuss elements of our jobs...environments..and even personalities which
can prevent us from achieving levels of productivity that we strive for but all
to often fail to meet. I hope to offer suggestions that can remove the brakes
and add the much needed nitrous oxide that can propel us forward.

JP is an independent consultant that spends most of my days helping teams
realize success throught the adoption and applicaiton of pragmatic development
practices.

JP has a passion for sharing information with the development community which he
does primarily through training and secondarily with my blog.

When not developing he can be found relaxing with my amazing wife and our four
beautiful kids.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community.
Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to
improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net
conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings,
open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space
Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to
you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the
Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET
Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.



http://www.virtualaltnet.com/

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community.
Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to
improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net
conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings,
open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space
Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar (http://snipr.com/m8ia2) to find a VAN group that meets
at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions
can be found on the Recording (http://snipr.com/m8ie1) page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET
Google Group (http://snipr.com/m8ih0) and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog
(http://snipr.com/m8ihv).

Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio
since September 2007. Before that he worked as  a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for
3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of
course C#.  Attempting Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus
on making programming more useful and relevant for the end user.

Have a look at the first popular MVC  .Net based web framework. Also will be
covering persistence with ActiveRecord, and view templates using Brail.  Bonus,
will demo a plug-in framework for building CMS like applications.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Ryan will be doing a two part series on the Castle Project.  Mark your calendar
for some Castle Project fun.

Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio
since September 2007. Before that he worked as  a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for
3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of
course C#.  Attemping Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus on
making programming more useful and relevant for the end user.

IoC and Dip through Castle Windsor

Ever wonder what acronyms like IoC and Dip mean? If you know what they mean do
you wonder why anyone would use them in code?  This talk aims to deal primarily
with those two questions through the use of Castle Windsor IoC container. 
Intermediate level C# material with a couple of more advanced demos at the end
for fun and pleasure.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 1, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 1, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)


Web Development with Castle Monorail, Active Record and Brail view engine

Have a look at the first popular MVC  .Net based web framework. Also will be
covering persistance with ActiveRecord, and view templates using Brail.  Bonus,
will demo a plugin framework for building CMS like applications.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

For more info on VAN go to www.virtualaltnet.com

Thanks

Zach Young
www.zachariahyoung.com

Thanks for the offers to my pleas for help all. I appreciate it.

I think we're pretty much set now. We'll see you all on Thursday evening!

- Ira

Ideally it'd be 1280 wide (code is so much better that way), but 1024 will do in
trying times.

Anyone?

This session will introduce the concepts, approaches, and
considerations that DDD brings to the table.  We will define the
concepts, understand the terminology, and explore the role that DDD
plays in developing a software solution.  In the follow-on discussion,
we will be able to discuss issues such as "when is DDD appropriate for
a software solution?" and "is it possible to use just *some* of the
DDD concepts effectively without applying them all at once?".


Central Standard Time (CST)

Start Time: Web, June 10, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, June 10, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)


Zachariah Young
http://www.virtualaltnet.com/
http://www.zachariahyoung.com

Louis Dejardin has been gracious enough to present "Spark View Engine" for us at
6PM on Thursday, June 18th. We're meeting in room N-202 at the Minneapolis
Central Library.

For those of you who know Lou, you've no doubt heard at least a bit about Spark.
For those of you who don't, now would be a great time.

For more on Lou and Spark View Engine here are some useful links:
http://whereslou.com
http://sparkviewengine.com/

Space is limited (we only have room for 20 at the library), so register now --
http://mplsalt.net/Registration.ashx

We should be wrapping up by 7:30 at the library and then heading over to "The
Loon" for some more talk and some beers.

Follow us on Twitter at @mplsaltnet for updates and more!

---

Upcoming meetings (all at the Minneapolis Central Library):

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - TBD
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - TBD
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - TBD (Room N-402)

So this meeting is virtual only and not in person anywhere?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Zachariah Young <zpyoung@...> wrote:
>
>
> The meeting is from 9:00pm to 12:00am.  More details can be found at
> http://groups.google.com/group/virtualaltnet and you can join the meeting
> via LiveMeeting at http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet.
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Will Shaver <will.shaver@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Haven't made it out to one of these things before. Where is this at?
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2009 8:40 AM, "James Swanson" <jswanson@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks interesting. Can you confirm the times? I guessing 9am - 12pm.
>>
>> > > Where and When > Start Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:00 PM GMT/UTC
>> > > - 5:00 (CDT) > End Tim...
>
>
> --
> Zachariah Young
> President of NW Arkansas .Net User Group
> http://zachariahyoung.com
> zpyoung@...
>
>

Haven't made it out to one of these things before. Where is this at?

On Apr 20, 2009 8:40 AM, "James Swanson" <jswanson@...> wrote:

Looks interesting. Can you confirm the times? I guessing 9am - 12pm.

> > Where and When > Start Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:00 PM GMT/UTC - 5:00 (CDT) > End Tim...

Looks interesting. Can you confirm the times? I guessing 9am - 12pm.

>
> Where and When
> Start Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:00 PM GMT/UTC - 5:00 (CDT)
> End Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:00 PM GMT/UTC - 5:00 (CDT)
> Attendee URL:http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet  (Live Meeting)
>

Speaker Bio for this week. Who is and what makes this Billy McCafferty guy tick?
Well he is a long time developer and a hopeless romantic when it comes
to writing beautiful software. Billy currently leads a double life
between helping to run a small training and consulting company known
as Codai (which will be getting a new website very very soon) and
filling the role of lead developer and architect with Parsons
Brinckerhoff. After Billy gets his life back – which should be after
the release of S#arp Architecture 1.0 – expect to see him soon at
ALT.NET and other development conferences.

He will be demonstrating the latest cut of S#harp Architecture 1.0
with a 45-50 minute non-PPT presentation.

Bring your opinions and attention. Questions and Answer will be served
also. The drinks as usual are up to the participants.

Should be a fun evening. See you all there.

Meeting details.

Where and When
Start Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:00 PM GMT/UTC - 5:00 (CDT)
End Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:00 PM GMT/UTC - 5:00 (CDT)
Attendee URL:http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet  (Live Meeting)

This week Oren Eini will be talking about NHibernate Profiler.

Bio:

My name in Oren Eini, but I'm usually goes by the Alias Ayende Rahien.
The reasons are mostly lost in the mists of time. ;-)

I am an experienced developer / architect, focusing on the CLR and
building business application and developer productivity frameworks
and tools.

I am an active member of several open source projects (NHibernate,
Castle) and the founder of several others (Rhino Mocks, NHibernate
Query Analyzer, Rhino Commons, etc)

Topic:

NHibernate Profiler is now finally available for Public Beta. It is a
real-time visual debugger allowing a development team to gain valuable
insight and perspective into their practice of using NHibernate. The
product is architected with input coming from many top industry
leaders within the NHibernate community. Alerts are presented in a
concise code-review manner indicating patterns of misuse by your
application. To streamline your efforts to correct the misuse, we
provide links to the problematic code section that triggered the alert

Time:
Start Time: Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009 9:00 PM GMT -6 (CST)
End Time: Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009 12:00 PM GMT -6 (CST)
Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

If you have not heard about VAN.  Please read my blog post Intro to VAN.

http://www.zachariahyoung.com/zy/post/2009/01/Introduction-to-Virtual-ALTNET.asp\
x


--
Zachariah Young
President of NW Arkansas .Net User Group
http://zachariahyoung.com
zpyoung@...

I will be away from the office with limited email capability the 9th. I will
work to get back to you as possible.

Happy New Year,

Jake

I travel to MSP occasionally on business and was looking for things to
do during my time there. Is this group still active? Do you have any
meetups or events planned for 2009?

  -Will

Spaghetti Code sits down with Jeff Diercks and Nick Nystrom from ILM
Professional Service to talk about the ALT.NET movement.  We talk
about what ALT.NET, the primary tenets behind the movement, pros and
cons, and how others can get involved.  Its  an interesting discussion
that also touches on things such as persistence, dependency injection,
and more.

http://slickthought.net/post/2008/09/New-Spaghetti-Code-Podcast---Discussing-ALT\
NET.aspx

Spaghetti Code sits down with Jeff Diercks and Nick Nystrom from ILM
Professional Service to talk about the ALT.NET movement.  We talk
about what ALT.NET, the primary tenets behind the movement, pros and
cons, and how others can get involved.  Its  an interesting discussion
that also touches on things such as persistence, dependency injection,
and more.

Eric Normen is looking to fill a handful of FTE postions. Mostly
senior .NET developer positions. Checkout positions here:
http://www.jobsmn.com/Informationtechnologyjobs.html

Contact Eric directly if you have any questions or interest.

enormen@...
Direct:952-345-7107
Mobile: 763-614-8733

Casual mixers put spotlight on local tech talent 

Subject: Sr. Software Architect Opportunity

Direct hire Sr. Software Architect (.NET) for a local client here in
the cities. You would be a part of a highly visible team that is
responsible for creating, evolving and driving the implementation of
the technology roadmap. They are looking for someone that is Senior
and who can take the team to the next level. They are wanting someone
that can really impact their development staff, and can really bring
some innovative ideas to the table. I would love to talk to you
further about this role. I would like to schedule a time to make
introductions and talk about this role and other things I may be
working on...you fall in the world that I focus my recruiting efforts.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Contact: Ashley Monseth

IT Recruiting Consultant
Hudson IT
Recruitment and Talent Management
60 S 6th St, Suite 3110
Minneapolis, MN 55402
t: 612 524 2648
m: 612 290 4783
f: 612 524 2601
ashley.monseth@...

Hey guys, thanks for putting this together. I'm sorry I couldn't make
it - it was right after we got back from a long trip - but I'm looking
forward to hearing when/where the next meeting will be.

- Lou


--- In mplsaltnet@yahoogroups.com, "ropadope" <ira@...> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who made it to the Bulldog
> NE last night. I think it went really well. Most everyone had a chance
> to speak with everyone else and there were many great stories shared
> and connections made.
>
> It really is a pretty tight-knit tech community in the Twin Cities and
> I'm sure we'll bump into each other again (even if it's not at the
> ALT.NET user group meet-ups).
>
> Hope you enjoyed the evening even half as much as I did. Thanks for
> the great input. We'll post the next meeting place/time on the wiki
> (http://mplsalt.net) when we get it planned -- think late next month.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Ira Mitchell
> http://freemind.net
> ira@...
>

I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who made it to the Bulldog
NE last night. I think it went really well. Most everyone had a chance
to speak with everyone else and there were many great stories shared
and connections made.

It really is a pretty tight-knit tech community in the Twin Cities and
I'm sure we'll bump into each other again (even if it's not at the
ALT.NET user group meet-ups).

Hope you enjoyed the evening even half as much as I did. Thanks for
the great input. We'll post the next meeting place/time on the wiki
(http://mplsalt.net) when we get it planned -- think late next month.

Thanks again!

Ira Mitchell
http://freemind.net
ira@...