Portland ALT.NET 2012 January Meetup!

The ALT.NET group will be meeting for technical discussion and a lot more in January. So far, the agenda starts with a kick off presentation on Git, pair programming, and code katas and koans with C#/.NET. The presentation will cover what these things are, how they're implemented, and what the best usage and benefit of each is.

Programming Session! Ever wanted to pair program? Wanted to learn about ping pong style, promiscuous pair programming or some other style? Well after the presentation, for those interested bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2010 with the latest services packs and MVC tools and we'll be stepping through exactly what these techniques are and how they're implemented with the .NET stack (and a few open source components too).

TDD, BDD, & Pair Programming Workshop

Hello all, a quick update for those that will want to follow along in the workshop. There are a few prerequisites but these are of course not required if you just want to come and listen, observe, and learn. It’s will likely be possible to pair with someone if you’d like.

System Prerequisites: Visual Studio 2010 w/ the latest SP1 and MVC Toolkit. The easiest way to get all of this for Visual Studio is to use the http://www.asp.net/downloads link and click on the huge Install Button. This will download the one-click installer and allow you to choose these items. Download the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio located here http://aws.amazon.com (http://aws.amazon.com/). The SDK, which is the primary part we’ll be using for examples is actually available via Nuget too. Pull down the latest code from Github and get a good running build. The code is located here https://github.com/Adron/AWS-Toolkit-Samples . If you have any build issues please let me know ASAP. Also note, even though I’ve setup this workshop to use AWS, C#, ASP.NET MVC, and .NET in general, it does not mean that there isn’t direct associations to why and the what for with testing and behavioral based development in other languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, etc.