What is Alt.NET

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What is Alt.NET?
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Origins

• Not a new idea
• David Larabee coined Alt.NET (April 07)
• Controversial name
• First conference October 2007, Austin

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Anatomy of an Alt.NET developer

• Uses what works whilst keeping an eye out for a
  better way
• Reaches outside of the mainstream to adopt the
  best of any community
• Not content with the status quo
• Principles and knowledge over tools and APIs

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Community

• Self organising, ad-hoc
• Mailing lists
• Conferences
• Blogs
• IRC

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Hot topics

• Inversion of control
• Test driven development
• O/R Mapping
• Agile
• MVC
• Domain driven design
• REST

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Want to get involved?

• altdotnet yahoo group
• Lively UK contingent
• London beer night
• 14th October
• Free beer!
• Probable London conference Feb 2009
• Free!
• Openspaces format

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• www.altnetpedia.com