The May meeting of DC ALT.NET has been scheduled for May 22nd from 7-9PM. Check out our mailing list and site for more information as it becomes available. If you're in the Washington DC area, come check us out. This month, we're having Craig Andera , of FlexWiki fame, speak about applying lessons...

Mike Moore (aka blowmage) has started a new podcast dedicated to all issues ALT.NET . Mike's an interesting cat. If you haven't checked out his excellent Rubiverse Podcast , do so; fascinating stuff as he gets cool guests. I think people who are in this community will be well served by his efforts...

What do you do before you head over to a day of grueling open-space sessions? Why head to Ruby's diner for breakfast of course. Here's my table with Jeremy Miller , Jason Grundy and Jarod Ferguson . We weren't the only ones who showed up. That's Roy Osherove in the corner (without a guitar...

Yeah, I'm a week late with this recap, but I've had writer's block. The Seattle ALT.NET Open Spaces event was awesome. The open spaces format is by far and away my favorite format now for developer gatherings. I love the interactive aspect of this format. We jumped right into a great set...

Well, I certainly have an ambitious May schedule ahead of me. Most of course will be revolving around functional programming and F# as it seems to be finally catching on. I've been noticing a bunch from the Java and Ruby communities becoming interested in such things as Scala , Haskell , OCaml ,...

During ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle, I spent a bit of time with Rustan Leino and Mike Barnett from the Spec# team at Microsoft Research. This was to help introduce Design by Contract (DbC) and Spec# to the ALT.NET audience who may not have seen it before through me or Greg Young . I covered it in detail...

One of the cool things about ALT.NET events and Open Spaces in general is that you encounter interesting hallway conversations at every turn. Take this video as a good example. We've got Udi Dahan , Chad Myers , and ScottGu discussing issues around Microsoft and Open Source from varying perspectives...

Time for another salvo of moving pictures! John catches us up on the IronRuby and shows some under-the-covers architecture of the DLR at the ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle event. I didn't get the whole thing, but there's some good stuff especially for folks that may have fallen out of touch with...

Greg Young convened an interesting fishbowl about moving architectures into the future. A number of "-ilities" are brought up in the course of this varied and good discussion. Watching this I wonder if there is an architectural future or if it's the case that we're only in the ever...

I recorded the Polyglot Programmer Fishbowl opening session from ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle last weekend. It's pretty interesting with a variety of well-known 'glots weighing in. Ted Neward , Charlie Calvert , and our very own Jeremy Miller open the discussion with a definition. Personally...