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The ALT.NET universe in Chicago gets together again on June 10 th , this time to learn and talk about Git , the SCM you're probably tired of hearing people jabbering about and still have not taken the time to look at. The presenter will be myself and I hope to explain how Git works and how it can...
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As a brief inspection of your RSS reader will quickly tell you, it's Code Camp season. Not to be left out of this party, the developers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas have a great option this year. The Chicago Code Camp , which happens on May 30th, is strategically located right between these...
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After his presentation , Robert stayed a little more answering questions from the audience.
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Last Monday I once again attended the Software Craftsmanship Group meeting where a panel was held on the topic of Apprenticeship . I was expecting to see a discussion about what constitutes apprenticeship and the master-apprentice relationship. Instead, the conversation was mostly around two examples...
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After an unfortunate cancelation of our last meeting because of the weather, February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET Group should be a very interesting one. Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin looks into XP's rearviewmirror, lessons learned, and the current status of Agile development. XP:...
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Tonight's meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group was led by Uncle Bob Martin . This time around we tried a Randori-style coding dojo . The task was to build a clock and, although we fell short of the original goal of having a GUI, there was plenty to be learned in this process. I felt it was...
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Remember one recent post when I talked about the Code Kata that I attended? Well, Micah prepared a screencast version of that Kata and that video is now available. It's a short screencast (14') and even if Ruby is not your cup of tea, it's interesting to watch BDD being practiced. Langston's...
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Wow, that took a long time to be published, but here it is. This video was recorded during the October's meeting of Chicago ALT.NET that happened almost just about a whole month ago. The video shows Josh Heyse demonstrating and explaining the works of the AOP framework called Core. What the video...
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I just came back from the first meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group . Tonight Micah Martin talked about Code Kata but added an extra facet to it. Micah proposes that, although practicing the Katas by yourself, in your spare time, is valuable, presenting your routine to an audience can deliver...
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After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.
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I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.
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The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle.
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This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting . This first video is the Cruise presentation.
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Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just stitch pieces together) I'll make it available...
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As you may have heard, ThoughtWorks , home of CruiseControl.net, has just released Cruise , their commercial product for CI and beyond. As soon as we heard that news we immediately thought: It would be great if we had someone from TW give us the scoop on that product — especially considering that...