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Welcome to Philly ALT.NET! (What is ALT.NET?)

Philly ALT.NET is a Philadelphia area user group interested in exploring and promoting the tools, ideas, and practices of the "ALT.NET" community.

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Upcoming Meetings

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Next Meeting

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pragmatic Implementation of Domain Driven Design - Steve Bohlen

Penn State Great Valley
30 E. Swedesford Rd.
Room 126-127 Main Building
Malvern, PA 19355
(map)
Register Now! http://phillyaltnet-feb2010.eventbrite.com

Hosted by Penn State Great Valley's .NET Certificate Program

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In the Pipeline

Mono
Spark View Engine
Real-world Functional Programming Follow-up

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What is ALT.NET?

ALT.NET is about the continuous improvement, quality, and craftsmanship in software development on the .NET framework.

With other development platforms and languages offering so much choice (Java and it's many quality open source offerings) and elegance (Ruby on Rails with its "beautiful" code and "convention over configuration" philosophy), .NET developers longed to craft cleaner, more elegant solutions without having to leave a framework that has so much to offer.

ALT.NET is about following your own beliefs about application design, and using the .NET platform to support your ideas, rather than retro-fitting your ideas to the platform. While none of these things is a requirement to "being ALT.NET," the community openly embraces:

Agile, Scrum, XP
Open Source Packages and Frameworks
Test Driven Development/Design
Behavior Driven Development/Design
Domain Driven Development/Design

ALT.NET is not about spurning Microsoft's platform and tools - it is about being able to decide when it makes sense to use them, having control over how they are used, and having the option to go in another direction without having to abandon the framework.

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