18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

We talk about the following things:

• "Why So Mean?" from Alt.Net Seattle recorded by Scott Hanselman
• Aluminum Wiring in Your Software
• The Vote of No Confidence in the Entity Framework
• Summer of NHibernate
• NHibernate DimeCasts
• Fluent NHibernate
• NHibernate Profiler
• CodeBetter
• Dublin
• Mass Transit
• NServiceBus
• Derik Whittaker's NHibernate Posts
• Oxite
• Chad Myers Oxite Post

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17: The State of Alt.Net

Mike Moore came out of retirement for one more conversation with Scott Bellware on the current state of Alt.NET.

Scott's Tweets:

• and people wonder why I refute alt.net. it has merely become the new fundamentalism that was predicted two years ago at Austin altnetconf.
• alt.net's sole struggle appears to be to replace the current problematic status quo and replace it with itself
• alt.net has become the problem that it had sought to address. it is the next gen problem that will hopefully inspire much deeper movement.
• i am likely the only person who has sat and wept at the loss of potential that is what has become of alt.net. so much work. so much lost.
• alt.net is increasingly an avenue to increased microsoft payola for former progressive community voices

The Curve:

Mike and Scott cover the following:

• Crossing the Chasm
• Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm is a Vacuum
• "Lonely people commiserating together."
• Technology evangelism
• Progressive software development
• Software craftsmanship
• SOLID principles
• Chad Meyers Posts
• "Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
• Orthodoxy & dogma

-James and Mike

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16: State of IronRuby 2009

In my first solo-episode of the IronRuby podcast I talk with John Lam to get an update on the IronRuby project.

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We discuss the following:

• John Lam's talk at RubyConf 08 ** Watch This! **
• IronRuby Repository on Github
• IronRuby Bug Tracker on RubyForge
• IronRuby.info
• MSDN: Automate Acceptance Testing With IronRuby
• RubySpec Project
• Paint.NET

-James Avery

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15: Domain Driven Design

In this episode, I talk with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

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We discuss the following:

• Understanding the business
• ASP.NET MVC Storefront
• Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design
• Philosophical underpinnings of DDD
• Redundancy in the Space Shuttle
• Bounded Context
• Aggregate Root
• Applying Domain-driven Design and Patterns
• State Pattern
• Continuous Improvement
• And best of all, listen along as Rob drops the names of the following people:
  • Brad Wilson
  • Dave Laribee (twice)
  • Scott Hanselman (twice)
  • Scott Bellware (twice)
  • Ben Taylor (twice)
  • Jimmy Nilsson
  • Jimmy Bogard
  • Eric Evans

This is my last episode hosting the Alt.NET Podcast. I want to thank the many gracious guests that have helped make the podcast such a success, and the listeners that have supported us and endured my scratchy voice. I hope that both the Alt.NET and the larger .NET communities have benefited from the podcast. James Avery is taking over the podcast and I am very excited to see where he goes and what improvements he makes.

~Mike Moore

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14: Object Databases

In this episode, I talk with Rob Conery and James Avery about object databases.

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We discuss the following:

• Object Database
• Database Styles
  • Integration Database
  • Applicatioon Database
• Matisse
• DB4Objects
• Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction
• Database YAGNI
• Adoption of Object Databases
• Object Query Language

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