New York ALT.NET Group

What is ALT.NET?

  1. You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way.
  2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc.
  3. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc.
  4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles (e.g. Resharper.)

...then you're in the right place!

We will be meeting monthly to discuss issues that interest us in a loose, informal discussion-style environment. All software developers of every stripe are hereby extended an invitation to participate in the discussion or just come and see what all this ALT.NET stuff is about.

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Past events

  • Design Pattern Automation with Gael Fraiteur

    12-13 Sep 2013 in New York, United States

    TopicDesign patterns are now universally accepted and significantly improved the way we design software. However, they had relatively little impact on how we implement it. Except rare exception like the ?using? or ?lock? keywords, most patterns must still be implemented by hand, resulting in large quantities of boilerplate code that must be validated by peer review.

  • Scaling Agile: An overview of the Scaled Agile Framework

    28-29 Aug 2013 in New York, United States

    This month we are happy to welcome back one of the founding members of the NYC ALT.NET User Group from way back in 2008: Dan Berlin!TopicAgile development has been around long enough that most major organizations have begun to use it on their project teams, but many have struggled to scale the techniques to large teams. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    24-25 Jul 2013 in New York, United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • In the Driver's Seat: How MSpec and BDD Will Make You a Better Programmer

    26-27 Jun 2013 in New York, United States

    SummaryBehavior driven development has been around for a long time. With the help of Dave Chelimsky (RSpec) it's been fully embraced in the Ruby community. As a long time Ruby developer I learned how BDD helps create expressive specs that lead to high quality software. I've since learned how to harness these practices and apply them to .NET development.

  • Intro to the Go Programming Language for C# Developers

    22-23 May 2013 in New York, United States

    AbstractAn interactive (hopefully) introduction to the new Go programming language (aka golang). Go is an open source language developed by Google as a potential successor to C, C++, Java, Python, and the like, It is designed from the ground up for the concurrent processing that is a hallmark of modern systems. When writing Go code, one can feel the ease and speed of an interpreted, dynamically typed scripting language.

  • Leap into the future of Human-Machine Interface

    24-25 Apr 2013 in New York, United States

    TopicSince the release of Nintendo Wii and its motion sensing controller back in 2006, the area of Human-Machine Interface has gone through dramatic changes. Microsoft Kinect removed the need of a controller completely but yet we are still stuck with using our fingers with mouse or trackpad with our computers. Now the Leap Motion () controller bridges the gap of full body sensing and touch interaction.

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    27-28 Mar 2013 in New York, United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • Become a superior programmer in any language

    27-28 Feb 2013 in New York, United States

    Programming work is essentially unsupervisable. Your employer can't force you to be a good programmer and often times isn't even in a position to judge whether you're good. Once you decide to make yourself a superior programmer, the potential for improvement is huge. Thus, character is the more decisive factor in the makeup of a superior programmer.

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    23-24 Jan 2013 in New York, United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    26-27 Dec 2012 in New York, United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • Managing a Technical Career Under Analog Rules

    28-29 Nov 2012 in New York, United States

    Topic:IMO the career management rules for those in technology have changed ? except that for many involved in recruiting and retaining technology folks, they seemed to have missed the memo. As an engineer who crossed over to the dark side (that would be HR and recruiting), I'll be talking about the "new rules" that you can use to go as far as you'd like to go in your career. New rules? How about "?forget the resume, show me your repo

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    24-25 Oct 2012 in New York, United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    26-27 Sep 2012 in New York, United States

    Topic:To be DeterminedThis meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    22-23 Aug 2012 in , United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    25-26 Jul 2012 in , United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • Using Couchbase Server with .NET

    27-28 Jun 2012 in , United States

    Summary: NoSQL databases continue to gain popularity across a variety of development platforms.  One of the most widely deployed NoSQL databases is Couchbase Server, which is a distributed key/value store with document oriented database capabilities.  This talk will introduce Couchbase Server 2.0 and the Couchbase .NET Client Library.  Non-relational concepts and NoSQL taxonomies will also be covered.  No previous NoSQL experience is required or assumed.

  • Deploying Apps to the Cloud

    23-24 May 2012 in , United States

    AbstractDeploying web application to the internet used to be a multi-days affair, filled with 10s of disparate steps, involving multiple departments and go-no-go checkpoint. With the advent of Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Heroku, AppHarbor, and Windows Azure, deployment now can be as simple as pushing code to a remote git repo. In the first half of this talk, Alex Hung will show the basic steps in setting up a new node.js application and deploys it to the internet using Heroku.

  • Demystifying Aspect-Oriented Programming

    25-26 Apr 2012 in , United States

    AbstractIt probably comes as no surprise to anyone with any real-world software development experience that Object-Oriented inheritance modeling can?t cleanly solve every class of problem we face as software engineers. AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming) provides us with an alternative perspective on our objects and their behaviors that can be leveraged to powerfully and flexibly solve whole classes of recurring software engineering challenges that OO systems routinely face.

  • Group Discussion: The Past, Present, and Future of the Microsoft platform

    28-29 Mar 2012 in , United States

    TopicThe Past, Present, and Future of Microsoft: what do the recent announcements mean for the future of development on Windows the platform?Come join your fellow software developers for a structured group discussion about the many issues facing the Microsoft software development ecosystem.  In a friendly group-interaction context, we'll try to collectively dig deep into the following issues and more: *Is .NET at a dead-end?

  • CQRS - Crack for Architecture Addicts?

    22-23 Feb 2012 in , United States

    Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) represents a fundamental shift in how we look at architecting complex software solutions. It suggests that decomposition of complex systems into (relatively) narrowly-focused isolated subsystems with carefully-considered discrete responsibilities is the best way to manage complexity and achieve scalability. But CQRS has come under fire from its critics as introducing needless complexity to solve what are otherwise simple problems. Which is it?

  • Running node.js on Windows Azure

    25-26 Jan 2012 in , United States

    Topic: Running node.js on Windows AzureLate in 2011, Microsoft announced their support for running node.js natively under Windows and Windows Azure.  In this meeting, we'll take a close look at what that support means to developers, explore the tools and techniques required to deploy node.js apps to Windows Azure, and discuss what this means for both the node.js and Windows Azure developer ecosystems.

  • New York ALT.NET Group Monthly Meetup

    28-29 Dec 2011 in , United States

    Topic: TBD This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!

  • Glimpse into ASP.NET - Firebug for your web server!

    9-10 Nov 2011 in , United States

    DescriptionLearn how to use Glimpse to reveal what is happening within your ASP.NET MVC and WebForms sites. See what tools are included out of the box and see how you can easily extend it to suit your needs. As a bonus, get a sneak peak at some of the yet to be release features!For more information on the Glimpse Project, see and Nik are the co-founders of Glimpse, an open source project for web developers. Glimpse is essentially for your server what Firebug is for the client.

  • Introduction to the Windows Runtime (WinRT)

    26-27 Oct 2011 in , United States

    There were some recent announcements at the Build Conference which provide a major shift in the way in which apps are built for the Windows platform coming in Windows 8. In this presentation, Ben Dewey will discuss the announcements coming from the Build conference, he will provide an introduction to the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and will show how apps can be written using your choice of C++, C#, VB, and/or Javascript.About the Speaker

  • How Cheezburger.com Manages its Schema Migrations and Deployments

    28-29 Sep 2011 in New York, United States

    Topic: Cheezburger Better Database Schema Manager - Cheezburger BDSMCheezburger BDSM is a way to easily manage schema versioning and migrations.https://github.com/cheezburger/Cheezburger-... Features *Schema Versioning *Simple Schema Description via XML *Use Custom SQL for Special CasesAbout the Speaker:In 2005, Stefan Rusek started work at Fog Creek software and worked at the creek for two and a half years.

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