At (already the third event of) this mini-conference, members of the ALT.NET community will talk about their favourite alternative .NET tools that increase programmer productivity and help us do our work better but are still not mainstream.
The sessions will be aimed at .NET developers at all levels.
EVENT DETAILS WHO:Gojko Adzic - Dylan Beattie - Ian Cooper - Scott Cowan - Sebastien Lambla - David Ross - Phil Trelford - WHAT:Open Source .NET eXchange III 16-07-09 WHERE:The Crypt, St James Church Clerkenwell, London WHEN:16 Jul 2009 Starts at 18:30-22:00 COST: FREE, for registered participants. REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT at http://tinyurl.com/kop3lv
TALKS:
A FIRST LOOK A BOO, IAN COOPER Boo is a 'wrist-friendly language' for the CLR that reduces the 'noise' of other CLR languages. It's also a favorite for writing Internal DSLs In this session Ian Cooper will talk about the Boo language from his recent 'first look' at the language. As well as covering the basics of why Boo is different Ian will look at the best way for you to get started learning Boo.
MANAGING WEBSITES WITH WEB PLATFORM INSTALLER AND MSDEPLOY, DYLAN BEATIE In this talk, Dylan Beattie will show you how to kickstart your web projects using Microsoft's new Web Platform Installer, and how you can deploy your websites and manage your servers using msdeploy.exe.
SPARK VIEW ENGINE, SCOTT COWAN Scott Cowen will talk about Spark. Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love.
INTRODUCTION TO MPI.NET, DAVID ROSS MPI.NET is a .NET wrapper around the Message Passing Interface which is a used by the majority of super computers and compute clusters for supporting sharing data between compute nodes.
ACCEPTANCE TESTING IN ENGLISH WITH CONCORDION .NET, GOJKO ADZIC Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples.
WHAT OPENRASTA DOES OTHER FRAMEWORKS CANT, SEBASTIEN LAMBLA Sebastien Lambla will showcase a few strange usages of OpenRasta.
F# UNITS OF MEASURE, PHIL TRELFORD The F# programming language has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In the process Phil show its use with a sample of retro game Lunar Lander.
REGISTRATION: FREE, for registered participants. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/kop3lv
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