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David Laribee on Alt.NET and its Mission

Topics
Community,
Programming,
.NET

Greg Young interviews Dave Laribee who is the founder and current lead administrator of ALT.NET, a conference where varied and fringe ideas on programming languages and practices are encouraged.

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

Topics
.NET Framework,
.NET,
Web Frameworks

Microsoft has published RC1 of ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It is expected to be the last public release before the final 1.0 release planned for February. MVC 1.0 RC1 makes significant Visual Studio tooling improvements, includes new run-time enhancements, and fixes numerous bug from the beta.

Learn NHibernate with The Summer of NHibernate

Topics
.NET,
Training / Certification

NHibernate has grown in popularity lately with more wide-spread use because of ALT.NET and competing technologies such as the Microsoft Entity Framework. A new screen cast series called The Summer of NHibernate has been created to expose more developers to this technology.

Introducing the ALT.NET Podcast

Topics
Agile Techniques,
Methodologies,
.NET

InfoQ learned about a new podcast recently called the ALT.NET Podcast. This podcast focusing on the community of developers brought together who represent what is ALT.NET. Folks should remember the ALT.NET term coined by David Laribee.

Martin Fowler: ALT.NET important to the viable future of the Microsoft ecosystem

Topics
Community,
.NET

ALT.NET is a new, developer-organized community started by several influencers including David Laribee, Scott Bellware, Roy Osherove and others. What differentiates this community from the many user groups already in existence is its focus on pragmatic values rather than technology. Martin Fowler commented that "this kind of community is important to the viable future of the Microsoft ecosystem."

Scott Guthrie Announces ASP.NET MVC Framework at the ALT.NET Conference

Topics
.NET Framework,
.NET,
Web Frameworks

The ALT.NET conference, held October 5-7, 2007, provided an announcement and demonstration by Scott Guthrie about the rumored MVC Framework for ASP.NET from Scott Guthrie.