The next OpenSource .NET Exchange will take place in central London (the Crypt as usual) on July 16th, starting at 6:30 PM and ending around 10 PM. OpenSource .NET Exchange is a community event aimed at promoting opensource .NET tools and progressive .NET ideas and practices. It is a chance for UK .NET enthusiasts to network and keep an eye on recent advancements in the community.
This mini-conference is free, but up-front registration is required. Last event attracted more than 200 people, so I suggest registering quickly if you plan to attend. Register on http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange-iii
The line-up so far looks like this:
Ian Cooper: A First Look at Boo
Boo is a ‘wrist-friendly language’ for the CLR that reduces the ‘noise’ of other CLR languages. It’s also a favorite for writing Internal DSLs In this session Ian Cooper will talk about the Boo language from his recent ‘first look’ at the language. As well as covering the basics of why Boo is different Ian will look at the best way for you to get started learning Boo.
Dylan Beattie: Managing Websites with Web Platform Installer and msdeploy
In this talk, Dylan Beattie will show you how to kickstart your web projects using Microsoft’s new Web Platform Installer, and how you can deploy your websites and manage your servers using msdeploy.exe.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that gives you everything you need to build and host web applications on Windows. It’ll configure your web server and database, install developer tools like Visual Studio and the .NET framework, and supports many popular Web application frameworks including ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Drupal, SubText, WordPress and DotNetNuke.
Scott Cowan: Spark View Engine
Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love.
David Ross: Introduction to MPI.NET
MPI.NET is a .NET wrapper around the Message Passing Interface which is a used by the majority of super computers and compute clusters for supporting sharing data between compute nodes.
Gojko Adzic: Acceptance testing in English with Concordion .NET
Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples.
Sebastien Lambla: What OpenRasta does other frameworks can’t
Sebastien Lambla will showcase a few strange usages of OpenRasta.
Phil Trelford: F# Units of Measure
The F# programming language has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In the process Phil show its use with a sample of retro game Lunar Lander.
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