Questions and Comments

Re: What do you want to learn about?

Brad Osterloo — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:24:18 GMT

Interested in:

Anything SQL Server related
Learning about and finding ways to use appropriate C# 4.0 enhancements in my regular development
Getting most out of VS 2010 (and how others developers are using it)
Understanding more about functional languages, the problems they help solve and if (or how) others have been using them
Interested in hearing why David dislikes TFS :)
Definitely WPF (Visual Studio 2010 being written in WPF is a big clue for .NET developers as to the future of WInForm programming)
Utilities and tools that others use - Powershell, etc
Unit testing approaches and experiences

And just sharing experiences with like-minded .NET developers out there in Eastern SD who care about their craft

Re: What do you want to learn about?

Dave Brue — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:06:24 GMT

David, I'm with you on the following:

Python, Ruby, and other Implementations Running On .Net (iron)
VS 2010
Functional Programming
Modeling
Communications

A few additional things that come mind are:

Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
Object-Role Modeling
"Oslo"

I've been teaching myself Haskell for the past year or so, and I've learned some really interesting concepts. I like discussing topics in this space and might like to see what role it could serve in commercial software development.

Re: What do you want to learn about?

Aaron Milbrath — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:11:32 GMT

From the topics you mentioned...

1. Dependency Injection and IoC
--> Interested

2. ASP.NET MVC and other .NET MVC platforms
--> Sure

3. Dynamic Languages in .NET (IronPython, IronRuby)
--> Very interested, never actually used dynamic languages before

4. Visual Studio 2010
--> Very interested, I'm assuming this topic would center on .NET 4.0

5. Blend
--> Sure

6. Silverlight/WPF Techniques
--> Interested

7. SCM (I dislike TFS and would prefer to hear about other products but anything on this topic would be interesting to me)
--> Not especially. For what it's worth, I have a bit more favorable view on TFS but then again it may be aided by the fact I came from SourceSafe background.

8. Functional Programming Techniques
--> Sure

9. Data modelling, Object Relational Mapping, and Entity Framework
--> Sure

10. Communication Frameworks (WCF etc... ) and methods (RPC / REST / etc... )
--> Sure. I may even be able to share a bit of knowledge and experiences I have had with WCF.

Possible other topics...
11. Parallel Programming

12. Workflow

13. Last but not least, just get to know other .NET users around Sioux Falls

What do you want to learn about?

David Seruyange — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:36 GMT

I wrote a blog entry discussing some of the things I'm interested in but forget me: what about you? What do you want to learn about?