Postponement: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on Nancy on 22 November 2011

Due to the busy schedules of both presenters and the nasty cold that got a hold of Steve, I regret to inform that the previously announced talk on Nancy is postponed until a later date. Our sincere apologies for the short notice. We’ll be announcing a new date very soon.  

Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on Nancy on 22 November 2011

We’re very happy to announce that Andreas Håkansson (aka The Code Junkie) and Steven Robbins (aka GrumpyDev)agreed to do a talk on Nancy, a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions. With Nancy you can go from zero to website in a matter of minutes.

Andreas is a software developer working from Sweden. He’s a strong believer of open-source software, software craftsmanship and contributing to the overall quality and knowledge of the community. Besides working on the Nancy web framework as the main contributor, he also runs the MEF Contrib, a set of community contributed extensions, tools and samples for the Managed Extensibility Framework.

Steven is a Technical Architect at Lightbox Education in the UK, mainly working on educational software and line of business applications for education related government departments and commercial companies. He’s also the coordinator of the Manchester NxtGenUG .Net User Group and a well know open-source developer on projects like Nancy, TinyIoC, Simple.Data, etc. … .

Here are the details:

Start Time: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 08:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 09:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

(*) 08:00 PM UK, 09:00 PM Brussels, 03:00 PM EST, 01:00 PM MST and 12:00 Noon PST. For time zone arithmetic, you can consult the world clock site, use this time zone converter or every time zone.

We do hope to virtually meet you there for this excellent learning opportunity. We would still like to hear your voice about future E-VAN sessions, so check out our feedback & suggestions page.

Recording of Jonathan Oliver on Event Sourcing and EventStore @ E-VAN 25 October 2011

Jonathan Oliver did a tremendous presentation yesterday on Event Sourcing and the open-source EventStore project. Jonathan is clearly very passionate about this topic as he shared some great real-world knowledge and insights. He started off by telling about his own CQRS journey, jumping over to event sourcing and describing the EventStore model, dispatchers, serialization, etc. … Jonathan also showed two particular implementations, one for SQL Server and another for RavenDB.

As always, the recording is now available on Vimeo:

Jonathan Oliver on Event Sourcing and EventStore @ E-VAN 25 October 2011

Because we were close to time, Jonathan wasn’t able to answer all questions. There’s this thread on the DDD/CQRS group or you can just send Jonathan an e-mail directly.

The original file that we used for uploading can also be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better.

We’re still very interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions. Please let us know what you think or do suggest a topic that you’re interested in.

Details of the next E-VAN presentation will be posted soon.

Jonathan Oliver on Event Sourcing and EventStore on 25 October 2011

We’re very proud to announce that Jonathan Oliver agreed to talk about his open-source EventStore project. In previous sessions, Greg Young and Mark Nijhof already talked about event-sourcing. Jonathan is going to dedicate this whole session on this topic, showing us several implementations for different kinds of databases.

For those of you who don’t know Jonathan, he’s the founder of SmartyStreets, a company that does web-based address verification and address validation. Most of their code is open source, including the EventStore project. Jonathan is also the founder and co-host of the Distributed Podcast, a great podcast about CQRS, DDD, Cloud Computing and much more.

Here are the details:

Start Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 07:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 08:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

Don’t miss out on this excellent learning opportunity. We would also love to hear your voice about future E-VAN sessions, so check out our feedback & suggestions page.

Recording of Mike Murray on Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC @ E-VAN 20 September 2011

Mike Murray did a great talk yesterday about FubuMVC, showing us how easy it is to get started with this open-source front-controller MVC web framework. Mike also demonstrated how to configure routes using conventions, action behaviors, view discovery, HTML conventions, model binding and a lot more of cool stuff. This session was a one way ticket to get up and running with FubuMVC. Great stuff!

For those who missed it, the recording is now available:

Mike Murray on Compositional and Convention-Based Web Development With FubuMVC @ E-VAN 20 September 2011

Here are the links that were referenced during the presentation:

• FubuMVC.com
• FubuMVC Guides - Getting Started
• FubuMVC GitHub Repository
• FubuMVC NuGet Package
• FubuMVC Google Group Mailing List
• Presentation GitHub Repository
• Mike Murray's Blog - Murray on .NET
• mkmurray - Mike Murray on Twitter
• Chad Myers - Cool Stuff in FubuCore and FubuMVC Series
• Josh Arnold - Patterns of Compositional Architecture
• DevDirective - FubuMVC Articles and Links
• Rex Flex - Introductory Posts on FubuMVC by Rex Morgan
• Spark View Engine
• MvcToFubu - Transition your website from ASP.NET MVC to FubuMVC Part 1

The original file that we used for uploading can also be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better. It’s also possible to download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

We’re still very interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions. Please let us know what you think or do suggest a topic that you’re interested in.

Details of the next E-VAN presentation will be posted soon.

Mike Murray on Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC on 20 September 2011

We’re very pleased to announce that Mike Murray has agreed to do a talk on FubuMVC. FubuMVC is a .NET open-source front-controller MVC web framework. Fubu (which stands for "for us, by us") focuses on rapid development, pluggability, and convention-based configuration. It tries to focus on SOLID principles, composability, separation of concerns, DRY, and other critical concepts of rapid, frictionless and pain-free web development. There are several differentiating features from ASP.NET MVC, such as behavior chains, packaging, routing conventions, HTML conventions, and much more.

Session agenda

• Starting Bare Bones from the FubuMVC NuGet package
• Exploring the Getting Started Sample from the FubuMVC Guides
• Configuring Routes via Conventions
• View Location and Discovery
• Clean Controller Actions with Behavior Chains
• HTML Markup Generated By View Model Conventions
• Ultimate Modularity with Packages (Bottles)

For those of you who don’t know Mike, he’s a software engineer for Extend Health, Inc. Mike has been primarily developing with C# and .NET for 7 years, and currently entertains interests in F#, Ruby, and JavaScript on the side. At Extend Health, he is participating in the migration of the company's production website from ASP.NET MVC to FubuMVC, while also contributing back bug fixes and features to the open-source project.

Here are the details:

Start Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 07:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 08:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

(*) 08:00 PM UK, 09:00 PM Brussels, 03:00 PM EST, 01:00 PM MST and 12:00 Noon PST. For time zone arithmetic, you can consult the world clock site, use this time zone converter or every time zone.

This should be very interesting stuff, so we hope to (virtually) see you there. We would also love to hear your voice about future E-VAN sessions, so check out our feedback & suggestions page.

Recording of Me, Myself and I on Taking Baby Steps with Node.js @ E-VAN 14 June 2011

Last night I did an introductory presentation on Node.js where I tried to bring across some of the stuff I’ve been learning about during the last couple of months. I do hope that the folks who attended this session actually got something out of it and not consider it a too big waste of time :-). I must admit that I definitely had too much content for a single session (hence the long recording). You can find the slides of this talk on the Prezi website and the code can be downloaded here.

For those who missed it, the recording is now available:

Jan Van Ryswyck on Taking Baby Steps with Node.js @ E-VAN 14-06-2011

The original file that we used for uploading can also be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better. It’s also possible to download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

We also already received some responses on our feedback & suggestions page, but we’re still very interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions. Please let us know what you think or do suggest a topic that you’re interested in.