Are you a developer who always keeps an eye out for a better way? Do you look outside the mainstream to adopt the best practices of any development community, including Open Source, Agile, Java, and Ruby communities? If so, then you might be an ALT.NET practitioner!

The meeting next month will bring DC ALT.NET to Reston, Virginia and the Stelligent headquarters on Wednesday, February 20th @ 7PM. Fine food and beverages (think wine and beer) will be plentiful!

ALT.NET is about following your own beliefs about application design, and using the .NET platform to support your ideas, rather than retro-fitting your ideas to the platform. Topics for discussion can include the following as well as others:

• Model View Controller Pattern (ASP.NET MVC/MonoRail)
• Inversion of Control (IoC) containers and Dependency Injection
• Domain Driven Design
• TDD and BDD
• Continuous Integration
• Agile, Scrum, XP

If you haven’t signed up for our list, go ahead and do that here. If you’re already a member, I hope you can make it out to Reston next month!