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LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 12: More jQuery in ASP.NET

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:45:20 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, and Scott Koon conclude their discussion of Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement. Continuation or Episode 12.

ALT.NET Podcast 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

ALT.NET podcast OOP in Ruby (IronRuby + C Sharp)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:32:17 GMT

A discussion with Scott Belware about the power of IronRuby and what it brings to the .Net world.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 7 - Object-Relational Mapping

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:16:02 GMT

In this episode Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) and Jeremy Miller discuss Object-Relational Mapping and when to use ORM tools.

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 4: More Dependency Injectsion and IOC

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:31:08 GMT

Part 2 of the discussion between Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on DI and IOC

The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>.

ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Over the past year, Microsoft and the Entity Framework team have received a tremendous amount of feedback from experts in entity-based applications and software architectures on the .NET platform. While Microsoft's announcement of its intention to provide framework support for entity architectures was received with enthusiasm, the Entity Framework itself has consistently proved to be cause for significant concern.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 5: Dependency Injection and Inversion of Contr

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:46:11 GMT

Part one of a two part discussion with Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control containers.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 4: Agile Kaikaku

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Owen Rogers discusses Agile Kaikaku, or a radical process change event within an organization. Owen is an Agile coach and has helped many teams adopt Agile practices.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 3: Adopting Agile

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:46:09 GMT

The latest episode of the ALT.NET Podcast is a discussion with Owen Rogers focused on adopting agile practices.

ALT.NET Podcast - Management Crisis!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:16:05 GMT

The first ALT.NET Podcast discussed some interesting points but one stood out for me - apparently there is a Management Crisis. Read how this manager responds... crisis what crisis?

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!