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!

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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@...

For those of us who couldn't attend, could someone give a brief
rundown of what was discussed/decided last night? It sounds like a
good time was had by all. I hope to make the next one.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Jason Motylinski
<jason@...> wrote:
> First off, thanks to Jim and Ira for organizing the first Minneapolis
> ALT .Net meeting. I enjoyed meeting and greeting everyone. I agree
> that there is a big gap that the ALT .Net group can fill. I'm excited
> for the group's potential.
>
> Going beyond demos, I think it would be interesting to have round
> table discussions around evaluation of technologies, implementations,
> best practices, etc... I would like to hear others challenges,
> experiences, and lessons.
>
> For instance, I would interested in having a round table discussion on
> continuous integration strategies. What worked, what doesn't work, how
> to show value to the business.
>
> Thanks again for a great meeting. Can't wait for September's.
>
>

First off, thanks to Jim and Ira for organizing the first Minneapolis
ALT .Net meeting. I enjoyed meeting and greeting everyone. I agree
that there is a big gap that the ALT .Net group can fill. I'm excited
for the group's potential.

Going beyond demos, I think it would be interesting to have round
table discussions around evaluation of technologies, implementations,
best practices, etc... I would like to hear others challenges,
experiences, and lessons.

For instance, I would interested in having a round table discussion on
continuous integration strategies. What worked, what doesn't work, how
to show value to the business.

Thanks again for a great meeting. Can't wait for September's.

Date: August 19 6PM
Location: Bulldog Northeast (backroom)

Topics: Introductions, interests, and potential meeting topics.

We'll take care of the beer and snacks. Bring your enthusiasm and ideas
for future topics.

Details: http://mplsalt.net
Sign-up: http://mplsalt.net/August%202008%20Sign%20Up.ashx

Cheers!

Date: August 19 6PM
Location: Bulldog Northeast (backroom)

Topics: Introductions, interests, and potential meeting topics.

We'll take care of the beer and snacks. Bring your enthusiasm and ideas
for future topics.

Details: http://mplsalt.net
Sign-up: http://mplsalt.net/August%202008%20Sign%20Up.ashx

Cheers!

Let's identify a location for the first couple meetings. Any thoughts
on Sweeney's in St. Paul?

Sweeney's Saloon & Cafe
96 Dale St N
St Paul, MN 55102-2039
Phone: (651) 221-9157