Yesterday was my first time at the ALT.NET User Group and it was a lot of fun.
Apart from Richard Banks (who I'd worked with before) it was a sea of new faces, which is cool as one of the reasons I wanted to go was to get to know other people in the industry.
So for those who haven't been before, here's my little run down on the night.
The night started at 6pm so people were rocking up from around 5:30.
Not know anyone, most of my time was walking around shaking hands and saying, "Hi my name's Matthew. How you doing?". There seemed to be a great variety of people with even a C++ developer amoungst us. :)
Richard kicked things off with general question to everyone about anything cool they'd seen/read/done etc, then we continued with two presentations, one from James Crisp on Automated Builds and another by Romain Prieto on Automated Deployments.
Automated Builds
James started off his talk by implying that all the xml based build systems were crap, and introduced nRake.
nRake removes the dependency on a huge amount of xml configuration and introduces Ruby's OO scripting in-order to programmatically generate a build. Very interesting.
Automated Deployments
Next came Romain who introduced the concept of automating the deployments. Romain has put together a little tool he's called psDeploy (which he informs us he'll be putting up on Github soon), which is a library of cmdlets to assist with the deployment of applications. He highlighted how this tool works well with TFSDeployer and psake.
Besides the talks being enjoyable, the sarcasm was great.
Overall an enjoyable and interesting evening which I'd recommend.
Next month => hands-on-lab in a coding dojo.
Enjoy.
[Edit] psDeploy is now up on GitHub.
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