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Give VAN some BUZZ

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:46:04 GMT

Ok everybody, I want to ask everyone to create a little BUZZ for VAN. Starting Sunday I want everyone to do something to get the word about what we are doing with VAN. There are still thousands of people who have never heard of Virtual ALT.NET.

VAN Meeting with Ryan Svihla on the Castle Project

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Ryan will be doing a two part series on the Castle Project. Mark your calendar for some Castle Project fun.

Introduction to DDD with Steve Bohlen on June 10

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:10:52 GMT

This session will introduce the concepts, approaches, and considerations that DDD brings to the table. We will define the concepts, understand the terminology, and explore the role that DDD plays in developing a software solution. In the follow-on discussion, we will be able to discuss issues such as "when is DDD appropriate for a software solution?" and "is it possible to use just *some* of the DDD concepts effectively without applying them all at once?".

Next European VAN on 06 May 2009

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:33:23 GMT

This time, we're doing a regular presentation. Mark Nijhof, one of the contributors of FubuMVC, will shed some light on this Front Controller style MVC framework for building web applications. Here are the details: Start Time: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 06:00 PM GMT End Time: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 08:00 PM GMT Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting) Please join us then as this is going to be an awesome presentation. I'm personally looking forward to this one.

S#harp Architecture on VAN

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:46:02 GMT

A Kick-Butt evening of S#harp Architecture with the one and only Billy McCafferty at the Helm

Yegor Yarko Product Manager of Team City presenting April 1, 2009

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:33:03 GMT

I have asked Yegor Yarko to speak to VAN. He joined us in last week's call and was very helpful in answering questions. He will be doing a demo of Team City and also showing us other scenario using Team City.

Virtual ALT.NET Progress Report

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:28:27 GMT

In this post, I want to update everyone on the current progress of the weekly VAN meetings.

Northwest Arkansas Code Camp 2009

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:02:05 GMT

This is just a short post to let everyone know about our local Code Camp. The code camp will be April 25, 2009 at the Shewmaker Center in Bentonville, AR. If you have not registered or need more details please go to http://codecamp.nwadnug.org. The current session list is below.

VAN Meeting for 2-25-09 with Sebastien Lambla

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:29:48 GMT

Great demo on REST and the OpenRasta framework by Sebastien Lambla last night. If you missed it, you can now watch the recording.

VAN Meeting: NHibernate Profiler with Oren Eini on 2/18/09

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:23:54 GMT

This week Oren Eini will be talking about NHibernate Profiler.

VAN Meeting for 2-11-09 with Jimmy Bogard

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:06:10 GMT

This VAN meeting is Jimmy Bogard talking about TDD.

VAN Meeting for 2-9-09 with Greg Young

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:09:53 GMT

In this VAN meeting Greg Young talks about about Domain-Driven Design and messaging.

NWA DNUG Recording for 2/10/2009 Linq and Agile Development

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:37:08 GMT

Recording on Linq and Agile development at NWA DNUG.

VAN Meeting for 1-21-2008 on GIT

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:07:42 GMT

VAN Meeting on GIT

Book Review: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:03:07 GMT

The reason I'm writing this review is to have something to reference back to in the future, and to share with you what I learned. I hope that if you have read this book you would comment on what you have learned.

List of VAN Recordings

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:00 GMT

This is the current list of VAN meeting recordings.

VAN Meeting - 1-07-09

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:07:01 GMT

Chad talks about a VB discussion on twitter.

VAN Meeting - 12-10-08

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:05:44 GMT

Jeremy Miller talking about Fit.

ALT.NET conference - 11/12/08

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:04:04 GMT

This is the second recorded VAN meeting. Chad and I start talking about SVN.

ALT.NET Virtual Conference on Lean - 12/3/08

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:45:53 GMT

This is the forth VAN meeting and we start off talking about DDD. The screen is blank at first.

ALT.NET Virtual Conference - 11/19/08

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:40:16 GMT

Third VAN Meeting with Sean Chambers talking about one of his projects.

Worldwide ALT.NET user group list

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:44:16 GMT

In an effort to market the VAN meetings that we have been having, I thought I would do some research to find all ALT.NET user groups. Below is the list I have created. If you see anything I have missed please send me a comment.

Intro to Virtual ALT.NET

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:46:03 GMT

Introduction to Virtual ALT.NET

VAN meeting for 1/14/09

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:28:27 GMT

AN Meeting for 1-14-08

Recording for VAN meeting on 1/7/09

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:55:48 GMT

Last night's meeting went really well. I'm still impressed by the attendance that we are having. We even had three people from Australia. Up to this point most of it has been marketed by tweets and blog post by Chad Myers and myself. Based on the reporting that our Livemeeting account provides, we had 57 unique visitors last month. The link provided below is a 2.5 hour long recording of the meeting last night.