The October 2008 meeting of out user group will be held next week, Wednesday the 8^th. The chosen topic for this month was AOP.

Core: An Aspect Oriented Business Objects Framework

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm
Learn about aspect-oriented design patterns and how they can be used to quickly add common functionality to your business objects. Josh Heyse explains how Aspect-Oriented Programming allows for the separation of true business logic and the code written allowing interaction with user interfaces. The Core framework is a generation model that dynamically adds common services, such as logging, auditing, persistence, and security to business objects. Aspects, or behaviors, are requested using attributes or configuration files which allows services to be included only where necessary eliminating overly bloated objects and tailored for the environment into which the object is loaded.

7:45 pm
You may want to stick around after the presentation portion of the meeting and take part in our monthly open discussion. The topic is never arranged in advance but it's common that it reflects the content of the presentation.

I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago.

In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.

After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.

Next Wednesday, September 10^th, is the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET user group. This time IoC containers will be the topic du jour.

Expect to see an introduction to this technology and learn why IoC isn't just overhead. Don't expect to leave with just another introduction to some technique that you'll never want to use.

Inversion of Control for the masses

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm
John Nuechterlein (a.k.a. jdn) puts Inversion of Control (IoC) containers under the spotlight. If you have been noticing the increasing buzz around this technology but never had a chance to see what it is and how it can be used, this is your chance to see:

• An overview of what IoC is, using StructureMap as the example
• Why one might want to use IoC
• How one can implement IoC
• When one might not use IoC

7:45 pm
You may want to stick around after the presentation portion of the meeting and take part in our monthly open discussion. The topic is never arranged in advance but it's common that it reflects the content of the presentation.

The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle.