Monday, April 19, 2010

Monospace: .NET Open Source Social at the Norwegian Developers Conference


Monospace

I'm very excited to be working with the folks at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) in Oslo from June 16th to 18th on a very special event.

On Wednesday evening, June 16th, we'll be celebrating open source software in the .NET space with members of the Mono Project as well as NDC speakers and attendees from the .NET open source community, and the open source curious. Cap off your day with complimentary refreshments and a look at some of the community projects that have changed the face of .NET.

Did you know that you can run .NET applications on iPhone and Android using the Mono Project's open source implementation of the .NET stack? Mono will also let you run your apps in powerful and mature cloud platforms like Amazon EC2 and build for special purpose hardware platforms. Want to deploy your apps to Linux and Mac? No problem, that's what Mono does for you. Use your C# skills to go further than you ever thought possible, and you don't even have to leave Visual Studio!

Not only has the open source community made cross-platform .NET development a reality for all .NET developers, but open source provides a wealth of development tools that have become the leading indicator and the gold standard for where .NET software development is heading. Unit testing, ORM, build scripts, UI testing, MVC, continuous integration, source control... all of these fields were led by open source efforts years before they started showing up in commercial products. Stop waiting to find out where .NET development is going! Come to Monospace and greet the future right here in the present!

If you don't have any experience with open source, join the party and see what the fuss is about. Learn about the wealth of tools available to you as a .NET developer, made available by some of the most accomplished and expert developers in the community. Get your questions answered by the pros, and get tips on how to augment your projects and your skills with the vast array of mature, stable, open source tools and products. This event is for you. You don't have to be an open source hacker to enjoy Monospace. Stick around and indulge your curiosity!

If you're an open source user, add your voice to the conversation. There will be plenty of .NET developers with questions to answer and experiences to share. Participate in discussions and demonstrations and even get a chance to learn about projects that you haven't heard of yet. Bring your laptop and sit down with open source contributors and users for a little hacking and show and tell!

Join Jackson Harper of the Mono Project, as well as myself, and many of the NDC speakers and attendees for a fun night of sharing and networking at the Monospace social.

Check out this list of NDC people who are open sourcers: Rob Conery, Scott Allen, Ben Hall, Roy Osherove, James Gregory, Greg Young, Jon Skeet, Robert C. Martin, Michael Feathers, Louis Dejardin, Sebastien Lambla, Shay Friedman, Anders NorĂ¥s, Kevlin Henney, Lisa Crispin, Richard Campbell. And that's just a partial list! Come out to Monospace and find out what attracts these leading thinkers and practitioners to open source solutions.

Expand your .NET horizons at the Monospace social at the Norwegian Developers Conference. Information, links, and more at: Monospace.us

Also, checkout the NDC conference agenda for great sessions on Mono and .NET open source at: www.ndc2010.no

Norwegian Developers Conference

Many thanks to the Norwegian Developers Conference for supporting and sponsoring the Monospace social, and for making it happen.

See you there!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Monospace Conference Schedule

Here's the final schedule for Monospace. Thanks for all your feedback! It really helped shape the conference.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 27th, Morning

Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Conference Keynote - Miguel de Icaza
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room 18C

10 Minute Break
10:00 AM - 10:10 PM

iPhone Development with MonoTouch
10:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Room 18C
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell
MonoTouch is one of the most exciting developments in the iPhone apps world. Use your .NET skills to build beautiful mobile apps on the world's most successful and lucrative mobile applications platform.

Extensible Applications Using the Managed Extensibility Framework
10:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Room 18D
Glenn Block, Program Manager, Microsoft
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a composition framework supporting plugin architectures and third-party extensions of applications. MEF will ship in Microsoft .NET 4.0 but is available right now as MSPL code that in compatible with Mono.

Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Tuesday, October 27th, Afternoon

Advanced iPhone Development with MonoTouch
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell
This tutorial takes you beyond the basics of iPhone development with MonoTouch, going deeper into iPhone application development, the iPhone platform, and the high-productivity developer experience provided by the MonoTouch tools and framework.

Mono and the Web - ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, Tools, and Servers
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18D
Jackson Harper, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Eric Hexter, Principal Consultant, Headspring Systems
ASP.NET WebForms and MVC apps run out-of-the-box on either Windows and .NET or on Mono on a variety of platforms. Build applications on one platform and deploy to another. Lean all about taking advantage of all of the platforms that run your ASP.NET apps.

Tuesday, October 27th, Evening

Special Event: MonoTouch presentation at Austin's Cocoa Coders user group by Geoff Norton

Wednesday, October 28th, Morning

Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C

Advanced NHibernate
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18C
Ayende Rahien, Consultant, NHibernate Principal Contributor, Author of Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo
The most mature and most widely-adopted object-relational mapping system for Mono and .NET taught by one of its foremost experts and project contributors.

Moonlight
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18D
Larry Ewing, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Rod Paddock, Editor, Code Magazine and Principal Consultant, Dashpoint Software
Moonlight is the Mono implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight RIA platform. Developed with the support of Microsoft, Moonlight brings the power of RIA to Mono. Learn about the platform and the tool support for RIA on Mono with Moonlight.

Lunch
11:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon I

Linux Jumpstart for Windows Developers
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 18C
Joseph Hill, Mono Product Manager, Novell
New to Linux? Don't let that get in your way. Get a giant head start on being as comfortable with developing .NET applications on Linux as you are with Windows.

The Mono Runtime and Core Extensions
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 18D
Rodrigo Kumpera, Software Engineer, Novell
Learn how to use the Mono.Simd and Mono.Tasklets API to do things at runtime that are not presently possible on .NET! A deep dive into runtime embedding and profiling APIs, Mono.Tasklets, and Mono.Simd.

15 Minute Break
2:30PM - 2:45 PM

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon II

Mono in the Amazon Web Services Cloud
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18C
M. David Peterson, Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban
Running existing ASP.NET applications that scale-on-demand based on server load. Building a real-time queryable web logging system backed by Mono.Fuse and written directly to SimpleDB. Creating an adaptive bit-rate live audio and video streaming system using EC2's load balancing and auto-scaling service for processing incoming streams, S3 for interim storage of the processed segments, and CloudFront for on-demand high-speed access to the rendered streams over HTTP(S) to a Silverlight/Moonlight application, iPhone user, or any other RIA-enabled mobile device.

Cross-Platform Development with Mono
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18D
Aaron Bockover, Maintainer and Lead Developer of the Banshee Media Player, Novell
The demands of cross-platform development push design, testing, and pattern to its limits. Learn from the experience and success of the cross-platform Banshee Media Player.

Functional programming on Mono with F#
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18B
Amanda Laucher, Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Joshua Graham, Architect, ThoughtWorks
The functional paradigm brings a powerful approach to compute-intensive apps.
F# is a MSPL-licensed language from Microsoft that runs equally well on Mono
as well as on .NET without any platform restrictions.

OPEN SPACE PROGRAM

Thursday, October 29th, Morning

Opening the Space
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room 18C
A welcome to the Open Space: An introduction to the Open Space format and protocols, and how the next two days' agendas will be set by you, the participant.

Open Source Panel and Fishbowl
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room 18C
With so many open source power houses at the conference, we'd be missing an incredible opportunity if we didn't put them in the same room at the same time for a panel discussion on open source in .NET. The panel is moderated by Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine and will include Miguel de Icaza (Mono), Sam Ramji (CodePlex), Ayende Rahien (NHibernate, Rhino), and Glenn Block (Microsoft). But this is no ordinary panel discussion! After a period of the traditional panel discussion format, we'll turn the panel into a fishbowl, allowing you, the conference attendee, to cycle through the panel, adding your voice to the dialog.

Creating the Schedule
10:00 AM - 12:00PM
Room 18C
Using the Open Space format and protocols, participants will build their own conference by suggesting topics for the schedule, and taking ownership of convening sessions, discussions, panels, fishbowls, demonstrations, and presentations.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Thursday, October 29th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Day
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
Closing comments, observations from participants, suggestions, questions, announcements, life, the universe, and everything. Planing and reminders for the next day. Well wishes for the evening out in the Live Music Capitol of the World!

Thursday, October 29th, Evening

Monospace Attendee Party!
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Highball
http://thehighball.com/


Friday, October 30th, Morning

Opening the Day
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C
Morning announcements, schedule changes, comments, observations, suggestions, questions.

Breakout Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Friday, October 30th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Space
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
A round of closing comments from participants. Plans for the next event. A fond farewell. So long and thanks for all the fish! Be careful out there tonight - it's Friday before halloween in Austin!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Draft Schedule for Monospace

This is still in the works, and certainly some changes may be made to it, but I thought I'd share this with the community right off before it gets final polish and is published to the conference website.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 27th, Morning

Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C

iPhone Development with MonoTouch
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18C
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell
MonoTouch is one of the most exciting developments in the iPhone apps world. Use your .NET skills to build beautiful mobile apps on the world's most successful and lucrative mobile applications platform.

Introduction to Developing on Mono
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18D
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform, Novell
All things Mono taught by the founder of the Mono Project

The Mono Runtime and Core Extensions
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18B
Rodrigo Kumpera, Software Engineer, Novell
Learn how to use the Mono.Simd and Mono.Tasklets API to do things at runtime that are not presently possible on .NET! A deep dive into runtime embedding and profiling APIs, Mono.Tasklets, and Mono.Simd.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Tuesday, October 27th, Afternoon

Advanced iPhone Development with MonoTouch
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18C
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform, Novell
This tutorial, taught by the founder of the Mono Project, takes you beyond the basics of iPhone development with MonoTouch, going deeper into iPhone application development, the iPhone platform, and the high-productivity developer experience provided by the MonoTouch tools and framework.

Extensible Applications Using the Managed Extensibility Framework
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18D
Glenn Block, Program Manager, Microsoft
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a composition framework supporting plugin architectures and third-party extensions of applications. MEF will ship in Microsoft .NET 4.0 but is available right now as MSPL code that in compatible with Mono.

(session TBA)
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18B

Tuesday, October 27th, Evening

Special Event: MonoTouch presentation at Austin's Cocoa Coders user group by Geoff Norton


Wednesday, October 28th, Morning

Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C

Mono and the Web - ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, Tools, and Servers
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18C
Jackson Harper, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Eric Hexter, Principal Consultant, Headspring Systems
ASP.NET WebForms and MVC apps run out-of-the-box on either Windows and .NET or on Mono on a variety of platforms. Build applications on one platform and deploy to another. Lean all about taking advantage of all of the platforms that run your ASP.NET apps.

Advanced NHibernate
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18D
Ayende Rahien, Consultant, NHibernate Principal Contributor, Author of Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo
The most mature and most widely-adopted object-relational mapping system for Mono and .NET taught by one of its foremost experts and project contributors.

Moonlight
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18B
Larry Ewing, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Rod Paddock, Editor, Code Magazine and Principal Consultant, Dashpoint Software
Moonlight is the Mono implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight RIA platform. Developed with the support of Microsoft, Moonlight brings the power of RIA to Mono. Learn about the platform and the tool support for RIA on Mono with Moonlight.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon

Cross-Platform Development with Mono
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18C
Aaron Bockover, Maintainer and Lead Developer of the Banshee Media Player, Novell
The demands of cross-platform development push design, testing, and pattern to its limits. Learn from the experience and success of the cross-platform Banshee Media Player.

Linux Jumpstart for Windows Developers
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18D
Joseph Hill, Mono Product Manager, Novell
New to Linux? Don't let that get in your way. Get a giant head start on being as comfortable with developing .NET applications on Linux as you are with Windows.

Amazon EC2 and Amazon Web Services
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18B
Marcus Irven, Vice President of Development and Co-Founder, Minggl
EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which a customer can create virtual machines on which the software of their choice can be installed. Amazon also provides message queueing services and storage service. Learn about Amazon's platform in an overview taught by someone who runs applications in Amazon's cloud.

Wednesday, October 28th, Evening

Monospace Attendee Party!
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Highball
http://thehighball.com/

OPEN SPACE PROGRAM

Thursday, October 29th, Morning

Opening the Space
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room 18C
A welcome to the Open Space: An introduction to the Open Space format and protocols, and how the next two days' agendas will be set by you, the participant.

Open Source Panel and Fishbowl
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room 18C
With so many open source power houses at the conference, we'd be missing an incredible opportunity if we didn't put them in the same room at the same time for a panel discussion on open source in .NET. The panel is moderated by Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine and will include Miguel de Icaza (Mono), Sam Ramji (CodePlex), Ayende Rahien (NHibernate, Rhino), and Glenn Block (Microsoft). But this is no ordinary panel discussion! After a period of the traditional panel discussion format, we'll turn the panel into a fishbowl, allowing you, the conference attendee, to cycle through the panel, adding your voice to the dialog.

Creating the Schedule
10:00 AM - 12:00PM
Room 18C
Using the Open Space format and protocols, participants will build their own conference by suggesting topics for the schedule, and taking ownership of convening sessions, discussions, panels, fishbowls, demonstrations, and presentations.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Thursday, October 29th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Day
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
Closing comments, observations from participants, suggestions, questions, announcements, life, the universe, and everything. Planing and reminders for the next day. Well wishes for the evening out in the Live Music Capitol of the World!

Friday, October 30th, Morning

Opening the Day
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C
Morning announcements, schedule changes, comments, observations, suggestions, questions.

Breakout Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Friday, October 30th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Space
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
A round of closing comments from participants. Plans for the next event. A fond farewell. So long and thanks for all the fish! Be careful out there tonight - it's Friday before Halloween in Austin!

Stellar Open Source Panel Kicking Off Day 3 of Monospace

The Open Space program of the Monospace conference starts on the Thursday morning of the conference, and we've got a great event lined up to kick things off!

With so many open source power houses at the conference, we'd be missing an incredible opportunity if we didn't put them in the same room at the same time for a panel discussion on open source in .NET.

But this is no ordinary panel discussion! After a period of the traditional panel discussion format, we'll turn the panel into a fishbowl, allowing you, the conference attendee, to cycle through the panel, adding your voice to the dialog.

Our panelists represent the breadth and diversity of open source accomplishment in the .NET space, and each has had significant impact on open source across the diaspora of open source roles, projects, and organizations.

Here is the roster of panelists:

Miguel de Icaza
Mono Project Founder
Vice President of Developer Platform at Novell
CodePlex Foundation Board Member
Author of GNOME

Sam Ramji
President, CodePlex Foundation
Former Director of Microsoft's Open Source Lab, Port25
Former Lead of Technical Product Strategy at BEA Systems

Ayende Rahien
NHibernate Project Contributor
Castle Project Contributor
Creator of RhinoMocks
Creator of RhinoCommons
Creator of NHibernate Profiler

Glenn Block
Program Manager for the Managed Extensibility Framework at Microsoft
Former Product Designer at Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Long-time friend and ally of .NET open source and community

Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine, will be our panel moderator.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Monospace Welcomes Headspring Systems as a Principal Sponsor


Continuing its involvement in open source for the .NET Framework, Headspring has become a principal sponsor of the Monospace Conference.

A commitment to open source for .NET is a core principal of Headspring. In addition to sponsoring Monospace, Headspring’s employees have contributed to numerous .NET open source projects including, MvcContrib, AutoMapper, The Tarantino Project, and CodeCampServer. Jeffrey Palermo, Headspring’s CTO, comments "We leverage open source software when delivering software projects. The more we support the open source community, the more we benefit.”

Dustin Wells, Headspring’s CEO, comments “Headspring is very excited about the future of Mono and the possibilities it opens for utilizing the .NET Framework on iPhones, Macs, and Linux.”

Headspring is a custom software development and Agile software consulting firm in Austin, Texas. Headspring specializes in delivering custom software development using Agile methods to help clients build and manage custom software projects more effectively. Headspring has helped clients maximize the value of each dollar spent through high-velocity output from each team member supported by Headspring's rigorous development standards and commitment to quality. In addition to custom software development, Headspring also helps clients through our technology training and coaching programs.

For more information about Headspring, please visit the website at www.HeadspringSystems.com.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Book Now! Flight Costs Are About to Increase!

We're really close to the 21-day limit for purchasing your flight without incurring the airlines' standard "last minute" penalty.

Don't wait to book your flights to Monospace! Book today!

See you there.

http://monospace.us

Monday, October 5, 2009

Monospace: The iPhone Development Training Opportunity that Can't Be Beat!

The Monospace conference is offering a full day of iPhone development training with the MonoTouch development tools and framework!

On Wednesday, October 28th, the Monospace conference features two back-to-back training sessions on iPhone development:

iPhone Development with Monotouch, taught by Geoff Norton, Engineering Lean for Montouch, and Advanced iPhone Development with Monotouch, taught by Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform at Novell.

The Monospace conference is four full days of development training and open format learning and teaching for only $249! For a limited time, use the discount code MONO199 and bring the price down to $199.

Attendees of the Monospace conference will also receive a $150 discount on the MonoTouch tools.

In addition to the MonoTouch training, Geoff Norton will be giving a MonoTouch demo at Austin's Cocoa Coders iPhone developer user group on the evening of Tuesday, October 29th.

You can come to Monospace just for the full day of iPhone training, or stay the whole week. Either way, it's a value that can't be beat!

Register at: http://monospace.us

See you there!