What is Alt.NET?

Origins

• Not a new idea

• David Larabee coined “Alt.NET” (April ‘07)– Controversial name

• First conference October 2007, Austin

Anatomy of an Alt.NET developer

• Uses what works whilst keeping an eye out for a better way

• Reaches outside of the mainstream to adopt the best of any community

• Not content with the status quo

• Principles and knowledge over tools and APIs

Community

• Self organising, ad-hoc– Mailing lists– Conferences– Blogs– IRC

Hot topics

• Inversion of control

• Test driven development

• O/R Mapping

• Agile

• MVC

• Domain driven design

• REST

Want to get involved?

• altdotnet yahoo group– Lively UK contingent

• London beer night– 14th October– Free beer!

• Probable London conference ~Feb 2009– Free!– Openspaces format

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