Once again, a big thank you to all of those who turned up to the Brighton ALT.NET beers on Tuesday 5th May. Despite being the first day after a bank holiday, numbers were still good and many topics were discussed in an informal setting over a pint or two.
More drinking and thinking this coming Tuesday:
The topics voted for discussion in the previous session were:
- Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)/View Presentation Models
- Do you Fitnesse?
- Why are Singletons considered harmful?
- Except for C#, what is another good language to know/learn now?
- Functional Programming.
- Which view engines are you using?
- Liskov substitution principle.
- Is the Entity Framework any good?
- How do you make youself a better developer?
- Favourite programming books.
- How can you make money from software?
A healthy list of topics!
I'm not going to go over each one, but some lists came out of a couple of discussions.
They were:
4. Except for C#, what is another good language to know/learn now?
10. Favourite programming books.
- Code Complete
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Head First Design Patterns
- C# in Depth
- Don't Make Me Think
- UML Distilled
- CLR via C#
- Principles of Artificial Intelligence
- Working Effectively With Legacy Code
- Agile Patterns and Principles
- Agile Web Development with Rails
- Joel's Best Software Writing I
- Pro C# and the .NET Platform
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- F# for Scientists
I know there's a few I've missed here. Please add any more you can think of in the comments.
See you at the beers!
