The India Alt.Net Community is a community of developers obsessed by a desire to be pursue a more pragmatic software development approach. We are here to help each other in understanding and improving our expertise in practical software development. We are not hesitant to challenge the assumptions and are always keen to create betterment.
We are Microsoft and the .NET platform enthusiasts.
The "Alt" in Alt.Net signifies the fact that we are always looking at alternatives to see if there are better ways to do things and no matter where that alternative might evolve from. So if it's something new, that's great - if it's an approach/process from the open source world or an alternate language or somewhere else entirely then that's great too.
We infuse professionalism with a core set of values:
- Simplicity
- Collaboration
- Service
Some of the practices popular in the ALT.NET community:
- Continuous Integration, Automated deployment
- Version Control
- Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Fit Testing
- Object Oriented Programming, Object Oriented Principles
- Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design
- Design By Contract
- Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal (Clear/Yellow/Orange), Lean Manufacturing
- Inversion Of Control, Object Relational Mapping
- Collective Code Ownership
These practices as independent of technology or architecture. Several of these styles are gaining a lot of popularity. Some of them are:
- SOA, Messaging, REST, Mashups
- DomainModel
- MVC, AJAX, RIA, SmartClient
We strive to apply these values, practices and style with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
More here: Alt.Net
