Tuesday 26 May 2009

Brighton ALT.NET Beers: Tuesday 2nd June, 7pm at The Prince Albert

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:

Brighton ALT.NET Beers, Tuesday 2nd June, 7pm at The Prince Albert.

The topics voted for discussion in the previous session were:
  1. Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)/View Presentation Models
  2. Do you Fitnesse?
  3. Why are Singletons considered harmful?
  4. Except for C#, what is another good language to know/learn now?
  5. Functional Programming.
  6. Which view engines are you using?
  7. Liskov substitution principle.
  8. Is the Entity Framework any good?
  9. How do you make youself a better developer?
  10. Favourite programming books.
  11. 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.