Thoughts from ALT.NET Seattle

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Spent most of the weekend at ALT.NET Seattle listening to lots of different ideas. I didn’t take a lot of notes, the motto of the conference was “practice, don’t preach”. In the same vein in the name of being able to listen more I took fewer notes. I do ...

Domain Driven Design Quickly

Monday, June 29th, 2009

At ALT.NET Canada a few weekends ago I spent a bunch of time with Greg Young and Bob Brumfield. This seemed to involve drinking lots of stout, a bit too much stout perhaps. If only the bar had a better selection, like the Cannery Brewery’s Blackberry Porter from Penticton, BC ...

Green Computing isn’t the same as Low Power Computing

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

At ALT.NET Canada this weekend I had a bunch of interesting conversations about all sorts of things. Thanks to Michael Stiefel for proposing the session on what Green means for developers. That and some other conversations at the weekend caused things to fall into place. In the past ...

ALT.NET Canada Vancouver and The Fallacies of Parallel Computing

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I found the time to attend ALT.NET Canada in Vancouver this past weekend. This turned out to be quite the event and I had a great time. Several other people from the Puget Sound area made the journey including myself and Bob from p&p. As with all Open Spaces conferences “The ...

ALT.NET Canada

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Registration for ALT.NET Canada opened yesterday. If the Seattle one is anything to go by it’ll fill up fast. It’s the 12-14th June in downtown Vancouver. I’m registered and should be able to make it although I don’t have money for the hotel – there’s a floor somewhere ...