Welcome to
Philly ALT.NET! (
What is ALT.NET?)
TekPub Supports Philly 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.
Upcoming Meetings
Next Meeting
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Reactive Extensions
VertMarkets
101 Gibraltar Rd
Suite 100
Horsham, PA 19044
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In the Pipeline
Spark View Engine
Real-world Functional Programming Follow-up
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.
More on ALT.NET
Book Sponsors
Please support our book sponsors by purchasing books from them. If you win a book at one of our meetings, we request that each book recipient write a thoughtful review and then post it to any or all of the following locations:
- A heavily trafficked blog, group website, or "geek" site
- Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Bookpool websites
- A print publication
- Go to www.informit.com/join to sign in
- Enter the following member code: USERGROUP
- All pricing will from now on reflect your discount as long as you are signed into the site (it's not a coupon code to be used at checkout, it's permanent discount pricing for your account)
- Click the above image
- Enter the discount code within the image
