ALT.NET
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ALT.NET
I really need to come up with filtering strategy, or get some long vacations to go thorough all the good stuff that’s there. Any ideas? How do you handle the discussion groups? Technorati Tags: ALT.NET, Castle, XP, NHibernate
Karl Seguin, has created, and made available for free and ebook, called “Foundation of Programming”. Don’t be fooled by its name however. If you’re thinking, “Foundation? I’m a senior level developer, what possibly could I learn from a foundation book?” and intend to pass by it, think again. The topic range spreads from Domain Driven Development, Persistence, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, Mocking, Object/Relational Mapping to Memory Management, Exceptions and Proxies. Looks like a solid weekend read. Thanks a lot Karl! Technorati Tags: ebook, ALT.NET, Foundation of Programming, Karl Seguin
I could risk saying, that Entity Framework made what ALT.NET movement is today. It was strong voice of resistance against it, that gave the impulse to action for people that started evangelizing about alternative approaches, pointing out its flaws and suggesting corrective actions. I guess to some extent this strong voice has been heard at Microsoft, but due to various reasons, not many changes have been made for v1.0 release.
I’m not very surprised to see ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. (Here you can see who signed it). Sure it' won’t change anything instantly, but I think that...
ALT.NET is a wonderful movement. It's a bunch of very smart and open minded people valuing good practices and using common set of tools. It's discussion group is a great place to share ideas and ask for tips and help. It's all great, however there's one thing that bothers me. The site says: We are a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development. It's true. However, as much as I feel strongly about patterns, practices and tools advocated by the...
ALT.NET discussion group is quite active. There are around 1700, to over 2000 posts per month. It's easy to drown in the flood of information, and if you want to benefit from the group you need to develop a strategy. Here's mine: I use Thunderbird, as my email client, and for the group as well. In its basic form, it's not so well suited for the job of handling threaded discussion, but same as Firefox - you can expand its capabilities with extensions. The first thing to do, even before you go looking for extensions...
I don't usually do that kind of things, but now I feel obligated. Well, here's the deal: Microsoft has put together a promising set of extensions to C# called spec#, that you can read, hear, or watch about, and even download it. It's a very nice set of features like non-nullable value-type fields, preconditions, postconditions and more. Those are very helpful features, and I want to join the movement on the blogosphere, that arose spontaneously to show Microsoft that we do care about those things and we'd love to see those features incorporated into C# 4.0. ...
David Laribee coined the term ALT.NET. What it means, and why it's going to be the_hot_word? David basically explained it in 4 points: What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies: You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. You know tools are great, but...