OpenSource .NET Exchange

Event Details

Time: July 16, 2009 from 6:30pm to 10pm
Location: Crypt on the Clarkenwell Green (http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange-iii)
Website or Map: http://skillsmatter.com/eve...
Event Type: mini-conference
Organized By: Gojko Adzic
Latest Activity: Jul 16

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Event Description

OpenSource .NET exchange is a community event aimed at promoting opensource .NET tools and progressive .NET practices. It is a chance for .NET enthusiasts to network and keep an eye on recent advancements in the community. The next event and will take place in central London (the crypt) on 16th of July.

Register on http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange-iii

Ian Cooper: A First Look at Boo

Boo is a 'wrist-friendly language' for the CLR that reduces the 'noise' of other CLR languages. It's also a favorite for writing Internal DSLs In this session Ian Cooper will talk about the Boo language from his recent 'first look' at the language. As well as covering the basics of why Boo is different Ian will look at the best way for you to get started learning Boo.

Dylan Beattie:
Managing Websites with Web Platform Installer and msdeploy

In this talk, Dylan Beattie will show you how to kickstart your web projects using Microsoft's new Web Platform Installer, and how you can deploy your websites and manage your servers using msdeploy.exe.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that gives you everything you need to build and host web applications on Windows. It'll configure your web server and database, install developer tools like Visual Studio and the .NET framework, and supports many popular Web application frameworks including ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Drupal, SubText, Wordpress and DotNetNuke.

Scott Cowan: Spark View Engine

Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love.

David Ross: Introduction to MPI.NET

MPI.NET is a .NET wrapper around the Message Passing Interface which is a used by the majority of super computers and compute clusters for supporting sharing data between compute nodes.

Gojko Adzic: Acceptance testing in English with Concordion .NET

Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples.

Sebastien Lambla: What OpenRasta does other frameworks can’t

Sebastien Lambla will showcase a few strange usages of OpenRasta.

Phil Trelford: F# Units of Measure

The F# programming language has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In the process Phil show its use with a sample of retro game Lunar Lander.