Chicago ALT.NET User Group

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March 2010 Meeting

Introduction to Rake with Albacore.NET

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

How would you to write your build scripts using a scripting language instead of XML? In this month's meeting we will see how the ease of programming in Ruby can be used to create a much more pleasant and extensible build script.

Rake isn't just for Rubyists or Alphageeks anymore. Albacore helps bring the power and expresiveness of the Ruby language to the world of .NET build automation. Using Rake it's never been easier to handle build automation, test execution, continuous integration and just about any task you need to automate for your build.

Michael D. Hall has been developing software on the Microsoft platform for over a decade. He's been an Alt.NETter for years and is really enjoying the exposure to different ideas and concepts beyond the safe confines of the .NET world. Currently he's a consultant working with Obtiva and has started a Cloud Developer's Group that meets monthly in McHenry county.

When: 3/10/2010 6:00:00 PM

Where: Redpoint Technologies, 233 South Wacker Dr, Suite 750, Chicago (map)

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February 2010 Meeting

Scratching the surface with MonoTouch

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

Did you know you can develop iPhone (and soon iPad) applications using C#, WCF and LINQ? In this month's meeting, you will learn how to use all the skills you already have to develop apps using MonoTouch.

MonoTouch is a new SDK based on Novell's Mono platform that allows developers to create native iPhone/iPad applications using .NET languages and APIs. In this presentation, Eduardo Scoz be talking about the iPhone platform in general, how MonoTouch fits in that ecosystem, some of its features, and he will show how to create a quick sample application.

Eduardo Scoz is a software engineer/consultant/agilist based in Chicago, IL. With over 15 of experience developing business applications for the web, he currently works for Redpoint Technologies as a Senior Engineer and Agile Coach. During the last 5 years, Eduardo has worked on many different platforms, like .NET, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flex, Objective-C and now MonoTouch.

When: 2/10/2010 6:00:00 PM

Where: Redpoint Technologies, 233 South Wacker Dr, Suite 750, Chicago (map)

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January 2010 Meeting

Jdn presents "CQRS in roughly an hour or so"

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

After his well-received presentation of Inversion of Control, Jdn is back to explain CQRS, a design principle that, when well understood and applied, can do great things for complex, multi-user applications.

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is a design/pattern/architecture where the responsibilities of processing commands and queries are segregated into distinct parts of the system. By designing systems that explicitly model state transitions and are built around notions of eventual consistency, you can gain scalability and business acumen, and fashion the parts of your systems more intelligently to the tasks at hand.

John Nuechterlein (a.k.a. Jdn) is an independent software consultant that has been in this industry for many years. He's a long standing member and one of the founders of the Chicago ALT.NET user group.