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Brain,
My name is Danilo Diaz. I am the local developer evangelist for Microsoft.
I am new to this group (actually only been to one pub night). Although I don?t
work with RoR or Ruby, I do have an interest in learning more about it. I also
like to hang out with other geeks working with technologies that I don?t know
much about. It keeps me informed of what other folks are passionate about.
Thanks,
Dani
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: [PhillyOnRails] Philly ALT.NET
**Apologize for the cross-post to
anyone who is on the Agile Philly list**
I am starting a new user group
that I thought might be of interest to some of the members of Philly On
Rails. I'm not sure if any of you would admit to being closet .NET
developers, but even if you aren't, you may be interested to know how we .NET
devs deal with things like "Rails envy." " ALT.NET" is a relatively new term used to describe a segment
of the Microsoft .NET developer community that is interested in evolving the
.NET platform to incorporate some of the features and philosophies of other
platforms and software approaches. It embraces the strength and power of
the platform but asks the question: "Rather than following the prescribed
'Microsoft Way' for developing with .NET, why not get .NET to work the way *we*
want to work?" It's about finding a better way to develop software, and
incorporating great ideas from Ruby on Rails, Java, Open Source, Agile, Test
Driven Development, etc into our familiar .NET world.
We have an
unabashed appreciation for Ruby and Rails and there are many great projects that
integrate ideas from Ruby and
Rails into the .NET platform (the Castle MonoRail project being the most
obvious example here).
I've written and referenced a bit more
about it on my blog here:
http://www.persistall.com/archive/2007/09/25/philly-alt.net.--how-bout-it.aspx
We'd love to have any Ruby-admiring .NET devs lurking on this list,
as well as any Rubyists that want to weigh in with their thoughts and repeatedly
remind us of what we're missing :) This is not a Microsoft-driven group,
we are focused on creating enjoyable development experiences in whatever
platform you work in. So the topics will be varied, and not always have a
.NET coding focus (I'll probably hit up this list for presenters for Ruby on
Rails, Rspec, and other topics over time).
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/phillyaltnet
Please
also contact me directly if you have questions, or are interested in getting
involved, presenting, sponsoring, etc.
[Now back to your regularly
scheduled Ruby programming]
Thanks!
Brian
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