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Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:23:32 GMT

Architecture Chat tomorrow, 9th February, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

University 2.0

Tenzing – Google SQL implementation over top of Map reduce

Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion

Farewell Stack Exchange (Atwood stepping out of SO day-to-day)
UI Bubbles for monotouch
Trans-cranial direct current stimulation

Actya - a new embedded “CMS” from Martijn Boland (who wrote Cuyahoga)
F# Project Extender
Removed unused references from VS add-in

Topics this week were collected on this google doc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat

Alex Henderson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:13:10 GMT

The First Architecture Chat for the year is on this Thursday, 26th January, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

See you all there!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:55:46 GMT

It’s that time again, The Auckland Architecture Chat will be held tomorrow, 11:30am onwards at Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

Lenses in F#
Future of JavaScript talk from Yui! Conf 2011
Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 is out
Scala feels like EJB2
Sql Server Denali (v.next)

Scriptus
JabbR
Ultimate privacy monitor
Why have a stack?
Reflection, performance and runtime code generation
JSON.Net 4.0 r4
MagLev 1.0 released

Most topics this week were collected here, and the last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:53:10 GMT

Architecture Chat, Thursday 10th November 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

Korma - SQL DSL for Clojure
Mustache for Java
Agile - 10 years after
Autobox - yet another .Net IOC container
OpenRA - Open source C&C/Red Alert clone in C#
F#

That query language thing I was working on is out now (TQL)
Java posse had a roundup on interviewing/hiring, some interesting thoughts on true character under pressure etc.
Make it matter
Seasteading.. good grief
Future of interaction design
CoffeeScript 1.1.3 is out
The social graph is neither

Topics this week were collected here, and last chats topics can be found here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat – Thursday 27th October 2011

Alex Henderson — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:21:00 GMT

Architecture Chat, Thursday 27th October 2011, 11:30am Onwards.

Location: Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Steve Jobs
Dennis Ritchie
John McCarthy (Lambda The Ultimate has a writeup too)

Roslyn Project

This weeks topics were collected here.

See you all tomorrow.

Architecture Chat This Thursday - 13th October 2011

Alex Henderson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:24:55 GMT

It’s time again for another Architecture Chat, Thursday, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics for this week:

Node JS
Mozilla Web Secure Coding Guidelines
Google JS test - JS testing framework from Google
Raven Overflow - Video on building stack overflow clone with RavenDB
Nugit - Automatically create/publish nuget packages from git repositories
Dart language discussions
Dynamic local host on windows phone 7
SPDY is used by Amazon's Silk browser
- ..and interesting musings from F5 on what SPDY enabled layer 7 switching looks like
NoSql and Philosophy / lack of dogma

See you all there!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:07:45 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

Backbone.js and Jquery Mobile
More query language adventures (Lucene as a reporting engine etc.)

For this week, we collected all our topics here. And last weeks topics and notes were collected here.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:43:54 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

FParsec - and thoughts after using it for a recent project.
Stripe payment engine with nice REST API.
Chrome browsers 3rd birthday
NHibernate 3 beginners guide published
WinRT replacing Win32
CTP of Azure AppFrabric released - now has service bus Queues/Topics etc
Google GAE price changes
Linux turns 20
SignalIR- write up on Hanselman's blog
JQuery 1.6.4 RC1 released
ifttt (if this then that) - quite a nice little idea
Windows 8 preview build available and first impressions after install on Virtual Box etc.
Don't use TFS...
Mouse without Borders
Gnome 3 web application mode
Microsoft Build conference (including keynote video etc.)

For this week, we collected all our topics here. And last weeks topics and notes were collected here.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:31:10 GMT

TechedNZ and codecamp is over, so it’s time to have another Auckland Architecture chat – This Thursday 1st September, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics:

TechedNZ

For this week, we collected topics here. And last weeks topics and notes were collected here.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:50:51 GMT

It’s time to brave the cold weather and attend the Auckland Architecture chat tomorrow, Thursday 18th August, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Some possible topics;

Sales force app built with monotouch
Programming & Scaling - Alan Kay video
F* (Fstar) language
Java Posse Roundup on DSL's etc.
MyGet (private filtered nuget feed)
Google buys Motorola
PaTTY - Microsoft Surface test stress robot
Jetbrains github account
Tattletale
PEAT - Finally a way to establish if my blink tags are going to cause seizures
ORM's / codebase complexity
Strokes - achievements while programming
Flying drone cracking wifi
Google directory axed, labs being shut down
Price of dev happiness?
Survey of API Experiences
Github - in-browser editing of files introduced
Microsoft slows down release cadence for EF
History of stack exchange API mistakes
Fabricate.net - fluently create test objects
Firefox drops version numbers?
Adventures in clojurescript
Testing code for thread-safety is flawed?
New PC – or – why the hell didn’t I get an SSD a year ago?

This week’s topics were collected at this wave. And last weeks topics were collected here.

See you all there!

Building a new PC

Alex Henderson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:06:23 GMT

It’s been a while since I’ve had a full PC refresh, in fact it was back in 2007 – so I’ve been working with largely the same “bones” of a machine for 4 years (same case, power supply etc.).

I blogged (very briefly) about it at the time, because of the joy that was more then doubling the speed of the machine while overclocking on air.

But over the last years it’s been getting to be a bit creaky, even with some CPU/motherboard refreshes etc. – so I decided to build a new machine.

As a quick refresh, this is what my old development machine looks like.

New Machine

Components I used:

Corsair Graphite 600T White Case
Asus P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard
Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz Socket 1155
Corsair XMS3 Vengeance DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz CL9 4x4GB
Corsair H80 cooler
Sapphire Radeon HD6850 HDMI Display Port Dual-DVI 1GB
Seasonic X-850 850W PSU
Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX 64MB 3TB
OCZ Vertex 3 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD 240GB
HP ZR30w 30” Monitor
Sennheiser PC-350 headphones

I ordered all of the parts in this build except the case initially, I had planned on using my existing Lian Li case – but after reading some reviews for the Corsair 600T, I decided to grab one, and I’m glad I did! At the same time I also grabbed another monitor (HP ZR30w) – Interestingly the parts I decided to use independently ended up closely matching those in Jeff Attwood's new machine, at least in New Zealand my choices are largely factored by price and availability (for example there just aren’t that many DDR3 16gb kits around, and the Vengeance XMS3 is one of the cheaper).

As for the new case - The 600T is a delight to work on, loads of room, easy to remove/clean grills and panels, and the extra wide case allowing routing of cables underneath the tray and back in again makes it effortless to end up with something that’s tidy and that you won’t dread opening up in the future to work on. I also have to give a hat-tip to the H80 cooler, for a all-in-one water cooling solution, it delivers on performance and is incredibly easy to install, took me all of about 3 minutes.

I love how “clean” this case feels, it’s extremely well designed. Contrast it with my old PC’s cabling, when first built:

And the sad state it’s in now (I’m in the process of stripping it down/cleaning/rebuilding it – so it’s missing a few additional 120mm fans here and there (also check out the “awesome” cable tied fan cooling the memory ;o)

Some catches with this new build I hit:

If “hot plug” is disabled for the SATA 3 ports in BIOS, you get intermittent freezes (normally about 10 minutes after booting, freeze can last for up to a couple of minutes) – took a while to figure that one out.
System doesn’t like resuming from sleep if the PPL Overvoltage setting is enabled.
The H80 fans started “pulsing” after a couple of days (The H80 CPU block also doubles as a fan controller, where pushing the centre of the cooler switches between 3 fan speeds) – The pulsing didn’t seem to change the performance of the cooler that much, but the noise drives you crazy – I opted to just attach the fans to the bundled fan controller that comes as part of this case, which worked around the issue, I suspect the resolution to this issue is to RMA the unit
I currently have the cooler configured to pull air in from outside – as recommended by the installation manual, but I’m suspicious about this configuration (it’s effectively pulling in air being expelled by the video card below) – my guess is in winter this is probably a good/OK config, but with higher ambient temperatures (summer), it’s going to perform much worse then the reverse of pushing hot air out of the case… I will need to do some testing to see though, the 600T has some nice air flow characteristics.
HP ZR30w would only display at 1280x800 using the DVI dual-link cable, switching to using display port instead resolved this issue… looking around the web, seems like I’m not the only one to have this issue with this panel…

The new machine scores a 7.8, which is pretty standard these days with a good SSD, and I currently have it overclocked at 4600mhz (46.0 x 100) – but haven’t had much of a chance to mess with voltages and see if I could push it further.

Real-world performance

The main project I work on these days is a fairly large .Net code base, it currently consists of about 70 projects and around 3,500 *.cs files – I did some quick stopwatch tests to see how much faster things are on the new machine:

Task	Old PC	New Pc
Start Visual Studio	10 seconds	2.5 seconds
Load Solution	21 seconds	11.5 seconds
Clean Solution	11.5 seconds	2.5 seconds
Rebuild Solution	112.5 seconds	31 seconds
Start Debugger (after build) – time Until login dialog displayed in app. Intellitrace disabled.	98 seconds	15 seconds

Those last 2 figures are the “money shot” for me… and these are for single-threaded VS builds, if using msbuild with the parallel option I suspect the build time would be much lower still.

Working Environment

So here’s my current development environment – 2 x 30” Panels (5120x1600) + 15.4” Laptop (with Synergy), new and old machines currently both sitting under my desk, and my ever trusty G15 Keyboard and Logitech Performance Mouse M950 (Darkfield) mouse.

Final Thoughts

I’m a happy camper with this new machine, and I’m looking forward to seeing what may come in Q2 onwards next year with regards to motherboards (dual processor / more memory options).

Also a quick hat-tip to Jeff @ coding horror, his post pointed me to the fix for the suspend issue I was having, the post made for interesting reading seeing as it was a very similar spec to my own machine.

Next thing I will be looking at is seeing if I can reduce VS2010 build times still further through some tweaks to our setup, as per this post by Arik Poznanski.

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:24:28 GMT

It’s that time again, the Auckland Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, Thursday 4th of August, Garrisons, Sylvia Park, 11:30am onwards.

Some possible topics:

ClojureScript - Clojure which compiles to JS.
Chocalatey NuGet - apt-get clone for windows, built on top of NuGet... hmmm
Approval Tests - bit of a discussion on herding code about this.
Coypu - browse automation wrapper for .Net.
html2canvas- client-side screen capture (in a way).
Visual Studio Lightswitch 2011 released
Java 7 hotspot loop bug
LevelDB key-value store open-sourced
Novel / Xamarin partnership around mono.
NugetCracker
Monodroid vs. monotouch comparison.
Node.CS
Backchat IO is hiring
Using the ASP.Net MVC Mini Profiler with lightspeed
Ivan Towlson on Hanselminutes
Jurassic Javascript on .Net
Interesting TED talk on algorithms
Windows phone 7 mango versioning stupidity
Avatar Kinect trailer from CES 2011

The topics wave for this week can be found here, and last week’s wave is here.

See you all there!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:45:19 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat on tomorrow, Thursday 21st July, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Possible topics:

The wave where these topics were collected can be found here.

Last weeks wave is here.

If you have any additional topics, please add them to the wave, or send them to me via email or twitter.

See you all there tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:54:14 GMT

Architecture chat tomorrow, Thursday, 11:30am, 7th July, 2011, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Ferret - experimental clojure (lisp) -> c++ compiler.
AppHarbour Add-on API
Virtually indestructible botnet
Spell checking and grammar integration in your own apps

Progress update on .net for iphone / .net for android
DDD guidance from Microsoft

Ayende’s review of the guidance

Program NVidia CUDA GPU's from .net
Mindscape lightspeed 4 released
Official NDC 2011 videos now available for download via torrent
IE 10 Developer Preview 2
HP webOS 3.0 SDK released
Eclipse Indigo release
Bitcoin for Android

The topics this week were collected on this wave – and the previous week’s wave is here..

If you have any other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:00:41 GMT

Architecture chat tomorrow, Thursday, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Cloud9 IDE - Web based HTML5/JavaScript IDE – are we going to see a flood of HTML5 related tooling from vendors?
Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline (in Railsconfi Keynote)
Erich Gamma (gang of four) joins DevDiv
LucidDB - Database specifically optimized for Data warehousing.
ASP.NET MVC the good Parts
Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 HTML5 support for VS210
Where are the HTML5 Designers/Dev's going to come from for Windows 8 - some very good points.
Resharper 6 B3 is out. Front-end support has been beefed up quite a bit.
Twitter quotes

The topics this week were collected on this wave – and the previous week’s wave is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:01:56 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow, 9th June 2011, 11:30 am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Possible topics:

NAppUpdate .. more here
Nightmare Agile
Waving Goodbye
Apple WWDC 2011 Key note including iCloud announcement etc.
Octopus
Windows 8 announcement
One Liners: C# / F# / Groovy / Scala / Coffee script / Ruby / Python / Haskel / Clojure
Open Plea by Silverlight / WPF Devs
PubNub
JSIL
Pomodoro Technique and physical vs. app based timers

The topics this week were collected on this wave – and last week’s wave is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 18 May 2011 07:42:32 GMT

It’s that time again!

Another Auckland Architecture Chat is being held tomorrow, Thursday 19th May, 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

Microsoft buys Skype
CoffeeScript for VS - @andrewdavey pushes some code
AmplifyJS - JS framework for abstracting datasource’s
RaccoonBlog – Ayende’s blog engine on top of RhinoDB

RacoonBlog caching

Speeding up VS2010 builds
VS210 Perf Watson
Mono/monotouch/monodroid demise/rebirth news

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Mono-II
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Mono-Future
Xamarin - Miguel's new Mono Focused start-up (and new home to the Mono team since Attachmate laid them all off)

Google App Engine 1.5 released
Windows Azure toolkit for iOS
Hudson moving to eclipse, the fun never stops
Xebium (Selenium + Fitnesse) - looks interesting
Running Linux on JavaScript (It relies on typed array support in modern JavaScript implementations - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays)
Jon Skeet's series on C# 5 Async support

The topics this week were collected on this wave – and last week’s wave is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:02:27 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat, Thursday 5th May 2011, 11:30 am onwards @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Possible Topics:

DataJs library
CTP Refresh of TPL Dataflow released
AWS outage
JS Performance - not exactly as you thought
verb-noun class names (e.g. PerformsQuery) enforcing SRP & niladic/monadic methods?
Saw this coming - when to avoid CQRS
Mass Transit 2.0 beta out
MVC - Mini profiler
SSD speeds and failure rates making the rounds again
XCode 4 support in MonoTouch
Some Ayende Posts that have been interesting

Use and misuse of implicit typing (don’t get the big deal myself)
RC of Entity Framework 4.1 out
ExtJS 4.0 released. docs here.
IonMonkey released.
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack CTP1 available.
Sikuli (automated testing with pictures - haven't had a chance to play with it, but looking interesting)
Fixing These jQuery - good presentation on how to debug jQuery/javascript.

The wave were we collected these topics (and more) is here – and last week’s is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:50:16 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat, Thursday 21st April 2011, 11:30 am onwards @ Garrisons, Sylvia Park

Some Possible Topics:

Mix 2011 News

Coffeescript getting more traction lately

Github

The wave for this week is here – and last week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Today

Alex Henderson — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:16:58 GMT

Hi All!

Architecture Chat today- Thursday 7th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Rob Conery leaps in

.Net Stocholm Syndrome et. al

The wave for this week is here – and last week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:42:41 GMT

Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 24th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Responsive Design - manifesto for not designing for PC resolutions.
Media Queries - pretty much like CSS Zen Garden for Responsive Web design.
Pratt Parsers - expression parsing made easy(r) + Interesting implementation in C#.
Being Constructive - Rob Conery trying to be nice about EF MSDN anti-pattern sample code.
Reddit/AWS outage. Reddit was down for 6 hours. Mostly blames Amazon. Lots of interesting discussion about the performance/availability of the EBS (persistent disk storage) product.
CSS 3 Planetarium
Selenium 2b3 released. With the new WebDriver interface (al la Watin/Watir)
Silex - PHP's getting on the Sinatra wave.
jRuby 1.6 released.
Interview with Stephen Wolfram.
Programming MOFO.
Eclipse Orion.
MonoMac 1.0 out.
.Net/C# Generics History.
SimpleBuildTool for Scala.

The wave for this week is here – and last week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (very out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location, how it started etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:15:39 GMT

Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 10th March - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics:

Some interesting Kinect hacks

http://youtu.be/VgLp-KyK5g8 Piano
http://youtu.be/Zw_6o7AuBzk X-ray
http://youtu.be/4qhXQ_1CQjg Predator

ExtJS 4 preview - interactive canvas charts are looking quite nice, still waiting on some of the demos like endless scrolling grids.
SqlServer 2001 Column Store
WinForms die-hard’s
Chirpy
2010 Computer book market (Orielly) (F# up, Scala down, C# down, Java up).
MEF 2 Preview 3 released. Attribute-less registration, open generic types. Nice little MVC sample. Basically a minimal fully fledged container now.
Agatha RSSL (Request Response Service Layer)

How github changed the world.
Using C# as a scripting language using Mono compiler as a service.
Aloha HTML Editor (github) - Looks nice, but no IE6 support.
JavaScript loader comparison.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 released..

The wave for this week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out-dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:47:06 GMT

Hi All

Architecture Chat tomorrow - Thursday 24th February - 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible Topics

Christchurch Earthquake.
Robot Pebbles ... interesting podcast on building static tools like hammers etc. from robot pebbles using electro-permanent magnets.
Mono 2.10 released. Also the Moonlight 4 preview 1 is out - anyone else feel like moonlight and Silverlight are two entirely different beasts these days..
Google public data - can now upload your own data (API here). Seems like an interesting way to take your own data and compare to world trends etc. to try and spot patterns you might not otherwise have seen.
Some interesting talk proposals here - http://2011.jsconf.us/proposals
Simple.Data... seems to be taking shape.
Interview questions for developers.
Friendly Digest - simple idea, but I really like it - especially for things like support ticket numbers etc.
IronRuby 1.1.2 released.
jQuery deferred in v1.5.
Silver small talk - Smalltalk in JavaScript (have a feeling we might have done this one before, but just in case).
Full android 3.0 SDK is out.
Fabric for python getting some nice improvements (such as parallel execution).
Windows 7/2008 r2 SP1 released.

To all those in Christchurch and surrounding areas, our thoughts go out to you - @freitasm has put together a good list of online resources for those affected by the Quake, or with family members if Christchurch.

Check it out here.

See you all there tomorrow.

Auckland Architecture Chat Today

Alex Henderson — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:15:09 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat is Today (Thursday), 10th February, at 11:30am, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Potential topics:

Rob Eisenberg (Caliburn/Caliburn.Micro) hinting about a Caliburn Micro MVVM framework for HTML/JavaScript (I believe leveraging Knockout.js) as per discussion on Herding code.
Dom Monster – check your pages DOM performance.
Android 3 UI preview.
Angular JS - transparent/automatic DOM/JS data binding/validation etc. Looks _EXTREMELY_ interesting as an approach.
Rainbird - Twitter's implementation of a _highly_ scalable atomic counting service/DB over top of Cassandra. (100,000 writes/sec). Some interesting thoughts about denormalizing data to provide pre-computed aggregates.
Asana – Collaboration for teams - looks awesome. Better version of the video here (HQ video here).
What are rails developers doing for ajax these days (would be interesting to contrast with .Net/Ruby).
Jenkin’s first release (aka Hudson).
NZ developed Visual NHibernate on on the NHibernate blog.

The wave for this week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:46:22 GMT

It’s that time again, Auckland Architecture chat is on tomorrow, 27th January, 11:30am onwards, Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

ServiceStack.net - OSS WCF if it was written by someone sane. (POCO convention based SOAP+REST XML+JSON automatically).
Vaasnet - on demand development virtual desktops.
The NoSql tapes
appharbor.com - Heroku for Azure - deployment == git push appharbour
Large scale jQuery
The .Net ecosystem - I've been looking around lately are resources like the ruby-toolbox.com and the ruby compendium... does .Net need something like this to guide people?
Growl notifications lately, and baking this into web apps etc.... anyone else doing similar things (i.e using growl for windows as the client etc.)
Nude.js
LLVM –> Javascript

The wave for this week is here - If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow (Friday 14th January 2011)

Alex Henderson — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:10:26 GMT

A new year, a new Architecture Chat.

Just this once, we will be meeting on a Friday (Tomorrow) 14th January 2011, 11:30am onwards. Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

Mono reports - reporting engine for .net - Gtk+ designer - flexible backend system for PDF/html etc.
The iPad-ifcation of the web.
Dapper - Googles logging framework.
.Net web framework roundup.
How to write a repository.
James Shore's series Let's Play (#76 parts and counting!) on real world TDD.
Lightspeed 4.0 beta now available.
Windows 8 ARM and SoC (System on a chip) Support.
Programming is not a craft. And the replies etc.
NuGet gallery now open to public.
Secrets of backtypes data engineers.
Long term maintainability vs. the quick hack.

The wave for this week is here… If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:05:29 GMT

The next Architecture chat is tomorrow, 11:30am, 9th December 2010, Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics:

Apache Arvo - fast embedded (json) schema object serialization (think Protocol buffers)
Backbone.js + jQueryMobile
Wave-vs
Nancy – Sinatra inspired framework for .net
Loggly - IaaS for logging + log analytics (and .net driver)
NDC2010 Videos
Mozilla Seabird phone concept
Time to diversify
http://lisp.geek.nz/
Google wave is now Apache Wave
Building HTML5 apps with Clojure + AppEngine
JavaScript on... JavaScript
Why We Choose HTML5 for User Experiences on Device

The wave for this week is here… If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

FYI: We are going to have another Architecture Chat next week as well (Currently pencilled in for Thursday 17th) that will be the last one for the year, and then we will probably get together again Mid to late January to kick off 2011.

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:38:30 GMT

The next Architecture chat is tomorrow, 11:30am, 25th November 2010, Location is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics include:

Progress made on Stuxnet reverse engineering.
Duck - an ORM specifically for updates, written in F# too – but also has C# API.
Bees with machine guns - low cost distributed load testing using EC2.
Haskel in Javascript! Is this another proof that Javascript is the assembly language of the web?
Why Lua doesn’t suck (Talk at Strange Loop 2010 by Kyle Cordes).
Googles Servers.
Distributed computing for everyone.
Map reduce in the small.
The Flickr team on client side performance.
Rails for Zombies.
More Strangeloop videos.
Cloud bee's... elastic hudson.
Google releases Microsoft Office plugin for Google Docs.
Yui touch apps development (your finger is dumb).
Hardware accelerated support for Moonlight.

The wave for this week is here. If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Auckland Architect Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:36:50 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am, Thursday 11th November 2010. Location (As usual) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park.

Possible topics include:

Douglas Purdy aka Mr Oslo turns up at Facebook
Taco Bell Programming
Google open source their one-click installer tech – Omaha
Lars Rasmussen - Google Maps and Wave creator leaves for Facebook. Interview here
Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery
Microsoft Shifts From Silverlight to HTML5
Holla - An Asynchronous JavaScript App - I like the sound of this
Async C#/VB - Technical Overview
Building a HTML5 client using Clojure
CSS3 intro
Rethinking the Mobile Web
IQueryable support released separate from WCF
Netflix is going 100% AWS - presentation and analysis
ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
Intel AppUp / AppUp support for .Net
Microsoft Sql Server code-named ‘Denali’ CTP1 available
Some new Raven.XXX projects - Raven MQ and Raven.Munin
Mindscape’s Silverlight Elements 2.0 released

The wave for this week is here. If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat out dated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Also, there are couple of user group meetings coming up:

Ellerslie.Net user group meeting on the 17th of this Month, as part of the Tech.Ed 2010 Express Road show. Details here.
JUG (Java User Group) are meeting on the 18th of this Month - presenting are Richard Vowles and Michael McCallum about Sky's development projects, and also Dennis Sosnoski from Wellington on SOAP, SOA, and REST architectures. Details here.

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:07:30 GMT

Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am, Thursday 21st October 2010.

Location (As usual) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park:

Possible topics include:

The wave for this week can be found here. If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat Tomorrow

Alex Henderson — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:44:00 GMT

Architecture Chat this Thursday 29th September – 11:30am – Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.
Some possible topics:

GoGaRuco 2010, including Avi Bryant - GoGaRuco talk (video not yet released).
Oslo – official death notice.
Manos – new .Net web framework.
Shoudly – should testing for .Net.
RavenDB – index replication to relational databases.
Kipunji - very pretty web XML Doc viewer - example here.
ASP.Net vulnerability. Demo of the Padding Oracle attack. Security update now available.
Omega – language of the future.
Spatial data queries in LightSpeed.
Orcon builds CDN for Sky…
Silverlight SEO.

We also didn’t really cover most of last weeks topics here.

The wave for this week can be found here if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!