Last night I gave part of a talk on NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC at the newly formed Sydney ALT.NET group.

I took the first half on NHibernate and Ali Shafai took the second part and did a demo of MVC, which he describes as "a brand new technology invented by Microsoft ;)

We were a little rushed for time, and I unplugged from the projector before showing my last slide with some helpful links for people wanting to use NHibernate, so here they are.

• NHForge is a new community run project aimed at being a central place to go for articles / FAQs and help.
• The NHusers Google Group is a good discussion group with users and developers.
• Check out the Summer of NHibernate screencast series if videos are more your thing.
• Sharp Architecture is a project by Billy McCafferty to provide a "best practice" starter kit for an NHibernate / ASP.NET MVC project. I used a couple of the patterns and some code from this in the demo.
• I also mentioned the NHibernate in Action book from Manning publications.
• Unrelated to NHibernate, in the first part of the talk I said that there was an WCF Rest starter kit project on Codeplex, but we couldn't find it. Here is a link to that if you're interested.

I had fun doing the talk, hope it was enjoyable for those in attendance. Thanks again to Richard for organising the group and Thoughtworks for giving us space to do it.