We had another great turnout today so a big thanks to everyone who attended. And although I didn’t get to share my ‘Monad’, Claudio mentioned monad. My goal now is to mention monad with every show. Mission Accomplished.

Dynamics

Today Claudio did a great demo on some of the dynamic features with .Net 4. He recently gave a dynamics presentation at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event in Dallas.

Claudio did a blog post on his blog which can be read here : http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E2A4B22308B39CD2!3110.entry

I plan on getting the material and integrating that with my Learning CSharp project on GitHub.

Claudio talked through using the dynamic keyword, Expando object, and your own DynamicObject implementation. He also did it with learning tests which is awesome.

Wizards of Smart Podcast I also talked a bit about the Wizards of Smart podcast Ryan and I started last week. Episodes 1 and 2 are out. I covered a bit on what tools / apps / websites we are using to make the podcast.

Episode 1 can be found here : http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/05/wizards-of-smart-podcast-episode-1.html

Episode 2 can be found here : http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/05/wizards-of-smart-podcast-episode-2.html

The blog post about the tools can be found here : http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/05/tools-of-our-podcasting.html

I plan on doing a post on my switch from WavePad to Mixcraft which Claudio and I talked about.

Mixcraft can be found here : http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/

Greg Young Webcasts

George brought up the news that Greg Young will be offering free webcasts in the summer. Greg Young is the genius behind CQRS and is a leading voice in DDD.

For more info on Greg Young check out one of my favorite podcasts ever : Our Grand Failure - http://herdingcode.com/?p=189

He also blogs at codebetter.com : http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/default.aspx

His post on the webcasts can be read at http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2010/05/19/webcasts.aspx

Community for FSharp Meeting + Bistro

Ryan held another Community for FSharp (http://www.communityforfsharp.net/) meeting this week. This week was a chance for people to share what they are working on with F#.

Chris Marinos shared F# Koans.

And what I shared at the VBB was the incredibly interesting Bistro framework.

Bistro is an MVC implementation in F# (basically) For more info check out : http://bistroframework.org/index.php?title=FSharp