A few weeks back I sat down with Larry Clarkin to record an episode of the Thirsty Developer (a podcast that he and Dave Bost put out) prior to my doing my SOLID session with the WI-Ineta group. Larry and I sat down at a local starbucks to chat about the session as well as just talk shop (Dave was off...
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...
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...
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:...
Yesterday Kyle Baley mentioned ( here ) that he had given some thought about doing remote pairing with various people as a learning exercise. I know he has mentioned this to me in the past and I always thought it was a great idea. However, I was never in a position to join in a session cause I always...