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Title: What is Alt.NET


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What is Alt.NET?
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Origins
  • Not a new idea
  • David Larabee coined Alt.NET (April 07)
  • Controversial name
  • First conference October 2007, Austin

3
Anatomy of an Alt.NET developer
  • Uses what works whilst keeping an eye out for a
    better way
  • Reaches outside of the mainstream to adopt the
    best of any community
  • Not content with the status quo
  • Principles and knowledge over tools and APIs

4
Community
  • Self organising, ad-hoc
  • Mailing lists
  • Conferences
  • Blogs
  • IRC

5
Hot topics
  • Inversion of control
  • Test driven development
  • O/R Mapping
  • Agile
  • MVC
  • Domain driven design
  • REST

6
Want to get involved?
  • altdotnet yahoo group
  • Lively UK contingent
  • London beer night
  • 14th October
  • Free beer!
  • Probable London conference Feb 2009
  • Free!
  • Openspaces format

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  • www.altnetpedia.com
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