Brighton ALT.NET Beers – Notes from November meet-up

Once again, big thanks to all of those who turned up to the ALT.NET beers on a very cold November evening last Wednesday. As promised here are some brief show notes.

The topics discussed were:

• Command-query separation (CQS)


• Parallel programming


• Object/Relational Mapping vs. Stored Procedures vs. Inline SQL


• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) vs. WinForms


• StackOverflow DevDays (London)


• Multi-tenanted applications

I especially wanted to get the links published to CQS and Parallel Programming/Threading.

Command-query separation (CQS)

Totally new one on me. Scares me a bit as it sounds different to what I’m used to and I don’t fully understand it yet. If I was less enlightened and not an embracer of change, I might be sharpening my pitchfork and ringing round to gather a mob.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-query_separation


• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/greg-young-ddd

Thanks to Keith for the Greg Young link.

Parallel programming

AKA Threading. It’s going to become more and more of an issue with quad-core iphones merely a year or two away.

Thank to Bruce for DMing me these links:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/

• http://blogs.msdn.com/maestroteam/


• http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/


• http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/10/24/how-to-get-started-with-multi-core-parallel-processing-you-can-use.aspx

And to HadleyHope for this one:

• http://www.wilsonmar.com/1threads.htm

I also really like the series Jon Skeet produced:

• http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/threads/

December’s Brighton ALT.NET Beers will actually be ALT.NET Food. We will have dinner at a restaurant in the middle of town somewhere.

Hope to see you there!