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The inaugural indy alt.net meeting was last night!

The group appears to be led up by jaxidian/Shane Milton of Leaf Software Solutions. Many thanks to Shane for getting this group together! I think this is an awesome opportunity for our community to learn how to be more receptive to alternative thinking in a .NET world. I have heard of so many shops that have their blinders on and won't even consider working with frameworks/etc. other than those provided by Microsoft. This can only be a true blessing to our community and where we are going as craftsmen.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing Microsoft, they make world-class software. The problem is that we need to be careful to always use the best tools that serve us in any given situation, rather than using only the tools that we are told to use via the mothership.

Last night's discussion was led by one of the co-founder's of Entity Spaces. Their product, Entity Spaces, is a code generation based ORM tool. I'm very familiar with the concept, but haven't had much of an opportunity to use many ORM's other than ActiveRecord in a Rails project I worked on, so I'm not sure how the usual suspects (NH/ActiveRecord, Linq2Sql, Linq2Entities, SubSonic) add up in a real implementation scenario, but it's at least worth thinking about. Maybe I'll do a write up or try to find a comparison.

Also, many thanks to Tridge Alliance for their financial support of the group.

All-in-all, it was a great inaugural meeting. I am sure we'll only continue to grow and get better. If you're reading, and are in the area, and feel like you're missing something (sort of like Neo, ya know?) please come and see what we're all about! We meet the third Thursday of every month. Check the website for more info.

I'm stoked! Let's make our tech community a better place!