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Monday, June 04, 2007

ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

Though not completely agreeing with Osherove's post, this seems like an interesting point to start a great discussion (at least as a reference to some great projects). Here's his table of coolness/uncoolness:

Hot Not
Castle, ActiveRecord,
NHibernate
DataSets, Dataset Designer, Entity Framework, MS Application Blocks
MVC,NUnit,MonoRail Web Forms, SCSF, VSTS, MSTest
XP, TDD, Scrum MSF Agile, MSF For CMMI
Evolutionary Design and Development Big Design Up Front
Ruby + IronRuby, Python + IronPyton, DLR, Silverlight(?) ?
OR\M (NHibernate, LLBLGen etc..) DLinq, Data Access Block, DataSets, Plain ADO. NET
Open Source (Mono, SourceForge) Application Blocks, CodePlex
MVC and MVP (RoR, MonoRail..) Web Forms, CAB, Smart Client Factory
CVS, SVN VSS, VSTS Source Control
Build Automation and CI
(CI Factory, NAnt, FinalBuilder, CruiseControl..)
Team Build
TDD and Unit Testing
NUnit, MbUnit, RhinoMocks, NMock, TypeMock
MSTest for unit testing, VSTS
Subtext, DasBlog, WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, FeedBurner Microsoft MSN Spaces, Community Server(?)
Simplicity in Design P&P
Working at Google Working at MS
Google Gears Smart Client, MS Ajax
.NET 3.X (WF, WPF. Silverlight) .NET 2.0
DI, IoC, Spring for .NET Object Builder
Conferences:
OSCon, RubyCon, Code Camps, DevTeach..
VSLive, TechEd, DevConnections..

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