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?

• IronPython
• F#
• Haskell
• Ruby
• Prolog 
• T-SQL
• Objective-C
• XSLT (really)
• Javascript (including server-side)
• Eiffel
• Boo
• Scala
• Powershell

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!