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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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For this month's of meeting we will be doing something we had been thinking about for a while. With so many members that always bring interesting contributions to our meetings, we will just have an open projector night. I'm looking forward to this one. Lightning Talks 6:00 pm Pizza and networking...
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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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This past weekend in West Des Moines, Iowa I attended the Iowa Code Camp . This was the second such event this year and it amazes me how well these events have gone given they are in their infancy. The leadership deserves a huge round of kudos for pulling off such a great event. Recap: This...
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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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One of the reasons I've been mucking with NHaml is the upcoming meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. The plan is to talk about NHaml and Spark (and maybe Brail ), comparing equivalent implementations of a simple website written in ASPX, NHaml and Spark. The meeting is on November 12 th , see registration...
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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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I want to invite any of you who are within a few hours of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the second Iowa Code Camp on November 8th. The first Iowa Code Camp back in May was a huge success. From Derik's write-up : Yesterdays event was awesome. They had about 125-150 people show up for the...
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It's so rare to find interesting group meetings up here in Suburbia that I can't pass the chance to attend new ones. As Micah Martin announced , the Software Craftsmanship Group was created and the first meeting happens soon. One of the topics for the evening will be Ruby Kata . Should be fun...
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The October 2008 meeting of out user group will be held next week, Wednesday the 8 th . The chosen topic for this month was AOP . Core: An Aspect Oriented Business Objects Framework 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm Learn about aspect-oriented design patterns and how they can be used to quickly...
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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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Next Wednesday, September 10 th , is the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET user group. This time IoC containers will be the topic du jour . Expect to see an introduction to this technology and learn why IoC isn't just overhead. Don't expect to leave with just another introduction to some technique...
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Last night I attended another LCNUG meeting. I think it's great that we have this new group forming in the northern suburbs of Chicago. It's definitely not easy for us suburbanites to attend CNUG 's meeting in the West 'burbs or even the Chicago ALT.NET meetings downtown. It's special...
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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.