Note:  We're changing the time up just a little.  Food (pizza)/networking from 5:30-6:00.  Then some kind of informal starter at 6, till 6:30 or so.  Then the real deal gets going at 6:30.

We've got a bunch of little javascript talks queued up.  If you want to talk about Javascript, you can come and do yours too (~10-20 minutes).
Backbone, jQuery, Node, Reactive, Amplify, Knockout, Pusher, Coffee Script, Sproutcore and more.

Join us this month for a discussion about mobile web development! We'll discuss the whys, the whats, and the hows. This will be a combination talk and fishbowl (or other format) discussion. As always, pizza and networking are at 5:30 and the presentation is at 6PM.

Location Details: http://www.sep.com/blog/2011/01/04/2011move... - 4th floor.
 
Alex - Continuing on his git series
Matt Swanson - Markdown
Jon Fuller - Code Metrics (a discussion)
 
Join us at 5:30P or so for pizza and networking.  We'll kick off the topics ~6P and try to wrap up and give away stuff (books software, etc.) at ~8p or so.  Plan on going to get drinks afterward too!

Please note the location change!
Join us for a fishbowl to talk about interviewing.
 
All interviewing/hiring topics are on the table.  Both sides of the coin... interviewee and interviewer.

• Interview Style
• Trick Questions
• Do you have folks code in an interview
• How to answer the 'where do you want to be in 5 years' question.
• etc.

Also, Alex is going to grace us with a quick lightning talk in his Git series.
 
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We all use different patterns all the time, let's talk about them together.  The idea is we'll have several different speakers, each talking about a different design pattern along with some code (mostly code).
If you'd like to contribute, and speak about your favorite pattern, just let us know!
Current lineup:

The core of your application is not twiddling bits to make pretty pictures on a screen.  It is about doing business things with business objects.  Domain Specific Languages allow you to program in a way that make those business objects dance, like sugar plum fairies.  We'll cover how DSLs separate concerns and allow for clearer communication with stakeholders. Also covered, how to implement internal (DSLs in your code) and external (DSLs that are parsed) DSLs.
 

Lightning Talks:

• HTML5
• OAuth
• Google Closure
• Code Contracts
• Kanban
• more...

Do you have a topic you want to talk about?  Bring it, and we'll try to squeeze you in!
 
Pizza/networking starts at 5:30 or so, talks start at 6:00.

Love your team?  Hate your team?  Wish you had a team?
I'm a little verklempt... talk amongst yourselves.  I'll give you a topic (or several):

TDD is tough and can be a bear to actually get started practicing.
Phil Japikse (@skimedic) is going to host a Dojo for us so we can practice our TDD skills.
Come prepared to get up and write a test or two, and feel free to bring your laptop and follow along as well.
 

Note: Important Driving Directions!

 WTF is a WTF lightning talk?
This is an opportunity for you to brag/sob about your latest and greatest/worst snafus (and hopefully a lesson or two you learned from it).
 
Groundrules:

The only constant in life is change. How do we prepare for change? Should we? In this session, I will go over changes relating to the smallest unit in our code base up into our careers. What does DRY really mean? When is too much YAGNI too much? When is it not enough? Should I change where I work or change where I work? The intention of this session is to open ourselves to change, understand how to make the change we would like to see and how to be the change we want to see in the world. This session is a frank and open discussion of software craftsmanship, career building and the nature of existing in the world of software development.

The mobile development craze comes to Indy ALT.NET! We've got the three hottest platforms that are competing for consumers' money - iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile - and we'll compare and contrast application development for each of them, as well as their respective centralized application marketplaces and what it takes to submit your apps to them.
Pizza Holiday feast (complete with roast beast and more!) and chatter are at 5:30, and the technology discussions begin at 6PM.

Matt will give an overview of a few source control systems and what differentiates them.
Be prepared for discussion once the presentation is over too!
Food (pizza) begins at about 5:30, so get here early!

Come join us at Scotty's for our administrative meeting and randomly inappropriate but so much fun geekery. Thursdays are Pint Nights which mean cheap draft beer ($2-2.50/pint). If you're 21+, you have interest in improving our group, and you get here before 6pm, then your first one is on me! There are also some great things on the menu you can order, but you're on your own with that.
Proposed Agenda:

Jon Fuller leads a discussion on Continuous Integration (CI). He'll give a quick intro to what it is and why it's important to you, as a developer and as an organization. Soon he and possibly some others will get into some demonstrations of various tools that many use to implement CI. Some such tools are CCRB and Rake, NAnt and CC.NET, MSBuild, and perhaps some others!

This is the second of a 2-month ALT.Storm Series hosted by Indy ALT.NET. This second session of ALT.Storm will be a sequence of lightning talks given by various people who want to share an awesome code sample they have, teach you a neat coding technique, explain how they applied a pattern in an interesting way, or almost anything else. The sky is the limit and we want YOU to share what you have with us!
 

This is the first of a 2-month ALT.Storm Series hosted by Indy ALT.NET. The first session of ALT.Storm will be a sequence of lightning talks given by various people on their favorite utility applications. Have an amazing XML editor? What about a spectacular code generator? You know you have an excellent Visual Studio plugin (that you can show off and explain in 5 minutes)!

In March, we will be meeting in a pseudo Open Space format discussion. We're calling it a "pesudo" Open Space discussion because it will not be a true Open Space discussion in that we will begin the discussion as a follow-up to Mike Brown's introduction/summary of his trip to the Seattle ALT.NET's Open Space event and the Microsoft MVP Summit.

NEW LOCATION (this month only)
Clojure is a functional programming language for the JVM that is designed to bring dynamic features and approachable concurrent programming to an established platform. It does so with parentheses, but you need not fear them (seriously, car and cdr don't even exist in Clojure). If you've ever wondered about Lisp or thought it was too hard or too impractical for work, Clojure may refresh Lisp in a package you want to check out. If you fear the day you have to multithread your C# app, you may be interested to know that Clojure provides a different, safer model in which you don't write locks.

This month, Brian Ball will be joining us to lead a discussion on functional programming with F#. F# is a typed functional programming language for the .NET platform. F# is already used by Microsoft for XBox analytics as well as many financial and scientific groups.

During the fishbowl meeting, discussion will take place around how project roles interact with each other. In the modified fishbowl setting, a Business Analyst, Project Manager, and at least one developer will discuss their functions in a software project and the challenges working with other roles. Be there to take part in the discussion!
 
Food is at 5:15pm.

On August 21 Jon Fuller will lead a discussion on Castle's MonoRail. You are encouraged to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the framework, and also Castle Windsor, as it will also be used during the discussion (but not as an active discussion point). Please come prepared with questions, information you would like to share, and concerns you have that can be discussed.

On June 19, Aaron Alexander, Sasha Kotlyar, and Dean Weber will lead an interactive group lab based around Mono. You are encouraged to spend some time familiarizing yourself with Mono, come prepared with questions, information you would like to share, and concerns you have that can be discussed.